r/MastersOfSex • u/NicholasCajun • Oct 17 '16
Discussion Masters of Sex - 4x06 "Family Only" - Episode Discussion
Season 4 Episode 6: Family Only
Aired: October 16th, 2016
Johnson looks to get her relationship with Masters back on track while Masters does his best to find satisfaction elsewhere. Betty and Helen ready themselves for a new addition; Art and Nancy discuss the consequences of their party.
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u/CurlingFlowerSpace Oct 17 '16
Art is turning out to be an immensely weak-willed person if he's so ready to jump to gaslighting Nancy like that.
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u/velvetdewdrop Oct 17 '16
She wanted him to lie, though. She gets aroused thinking of him with other women. So.. Idk. But yeah, he was still spineless. And spineless when he told her about the recordings and.. he breaks all promises to Virginia very easily.
Hope Virginia has recordings of him promising to tell her nothing happened..there was the one she destroyed, though.
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u/SpectralEntity Oct 17 '16
Wow. Some incredible acting this episode.
Say what you may about Bill Masters, but the scene in the OR was quintessential to understanding him. At his core, the Hippocratic oath is a code he lives by, and he truly wants to help people. Not a moment of hesitation when Barton told him to scrub up.
I wonder if the real Bill was also like that?
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u/BrownSugarVoodoo Oct 17 '16
Soon as I realized what was happening with Helen I yelled out "oh hell no" at my screen. I'm pretty desensitized to tv deaths at this point, but I definitely felt for betty in that moment.
I don't wana be reductive and call Art a bitch, but cmon...he's a bitch.
On the flip side, bill's curve game is so strong. If I were virginia I'd be throwing myself at him too.
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u/Skyrides Oct 18 '16
This episode was a masterpiece until the bitter end. I think this season so far has really outdone itself
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u/jrb71 Oct 17 '16
A few thoughts, First: Art saying, "she closed her eyes and then....consumed me," was probably the most poetic way of saying, "and then she sucked my dick." Second: For some reason, I really enjoy seeing Virginia try to win back Bill. She's so used to being the one who is pursued. She's so bad at it that she tries her old ways (hotel room card) not knowing that Bill just sees them as her doing the same old, same old. Third: I wonder what they'll do with Betty's character. I don't see what she can do about custody, and I don't see where her character can go from here either. Plus, the show's already got someone who can replace her. (guy or "gee"). Could she be written off this season?
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u/velvetdewdrop Oct 17 '16 edited Oct 17 '16
Even if Betty does get custody, life will not be easy for her as a single mother. This practice and the management of Bill and Ginny has been like her child. Without a personal life in crisis right now, she'd probably have calmed Dr. Leveau down about the recordings, got Bill and Ginny back together, etc.
From a legal standpoint, it's too bad she called the parents beforehand.
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '16
The ending was so heartbreaking. The look on Betty's face crushed me. Just give her actress all the awards.