“Masters of Sex” ended its first season with an apparent breakthrough: Michael Sheen‘s Bill Masters confessed to Lizzy Caplan‘s Virginia Johnson that he can’t live without her. The opening episode of Season 2, debuting Sunday night on Showtime, makes it clear how partial that breakthrough was.
The pair engage in sex so good that she immediately breaks up with boyfriend Ethan (Nicholas D’Agosto). But the obstinate obstetrician refuses to call their ensuing trysts an affair, coldly pointing out: “I’m married.”
He’s not the only one in denial during the opening episodes: hound dog Dr. Austin Langham (Teddy Sears) is still pretending to himself (and others) that he can remain faithful to his wife, and provost Barton Scully (Beau Bridges) thinks he can electro-shock his homosexuality away.