The Worst Episodes of Masters of Sex

#1 Worst Episode
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7.1/10(393 votes)
#1 - Monkey Business
S3:E78/23/2015
Masters and Johnson are interviewed as they take on an exotic new patient.
Director:Adam Arkin
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Adam Arkin
Writer:Unknown
7.3/10(380 votes)
#2 - High Anxiety
S3:E99/6/2015
Masters continues his surrogacy program, now under Johnson's critical eye.
Director:Dan Attias
Writer:Jonathan Igla
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Director:Dan Attias
Writer:Jonathan Igla
7.5/10(423 votes)
#3 - The Excitement of Release
S3:E37/26/2015
Masters and Johnson look to capitalize on their burgeoning fame.
Director:Miguel Sapochnik
Writer:Steven Levenson
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Director:Miguel Sapochnik
Writer:Steven Levenson
7.6/10(439 votes)
#4 - Three's a Crowd
S3:E27/19/2015
Masters takes on a high profile patient. Virginia and Libby come to terms.
Director:Dean Perisot
Writer:Amy Lippman
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Director:Dean Perisot
Writer:Amy Lippman
7.6/10(388 votes)
#5 - Surrogates
S3:E88/30/2015
Johnson jets away with Dan Logan. Masters begins his surrogacy program.
Director:Matt Earl Beesley
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Matt Earl Beesley
Writer:Unknown
7.6/10(312 votes)
#6 - In To Me You See
S4:E710/23/2016
Masters looks to groom Art as his protege in a new area of research as Johnson does her best to keep Nancy at arm's length. Betty seeks an unlikely source for assistance in her fight for equal rights to Helen's baby.
Director:Michael Apted
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Michael Apted
Writer:Unknown

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7.7/10(1005 votes)
#7 - Race to Space
S1:E210/6/2013
On the heels of Masters’ proposal that they participate in the sexual response study, Johnson considers the best course of action to keep her job – only to find she no longer has one. The study has been forced out of the hospital and Masters believes Johnson is to blame. As Johnson fights to save her job and struggles to care for her kids, Masters moves his study to a brothel. But Masters soon discovers that the chaos of the cathouse is unmanageable without Johnson’s help.
Director:Michael Dinner
Writer:Michelle Ashford
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Director:Michael Dinner
Writer:Michelle Ashford
7.7/10(506 votes)
#8 - Mirror, Mirror
S2:E88/31/2014
Masters privately treats a couple for infertility, without revealing his relationship to them. Johnson realizes her work with Masters can be used to help people suffering from sexual dysfunction - but quickly gets in over her head when she attempts to treat Barbara Sanderson on her own. Libby is unnerved after witnessing a hate crime that is then whitewashed by the police.
Director:Michael Apted
Writer:Steven Levenson
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Director:Michael Apted
Writer:Steven Levenson
7.7/10(402 votes)
#9 - Undue Influence
S3:E48/2/2015
Masters seeks unexpected advice. Virginia is distracted by news of Henry.
Director:Christopher Manley
Writer:Gina Fattore
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Director:Christopher Manley
Writer:Gina Fattore
7.7/10(396 votes)
#10 - Two Scents
S3:E68/16/2015
Masters and Johnson take on a famous couple hoping to renew their sex life.
Director:Michael Weaver
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Michael Weaver
Writer:Unknown
7.7/10(386 votes)
#11 - Through a Glass, Darkly
S3:E109/13/2015
Johnson objects to Masters' program following missteps in the protocol.
Director:Jeremy Webb
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Jeremy Webb
Writer:Unknown
7.7/10(370 votes)
#12 - Freefall
S4:E19/11/2016
In the wake of their fallout, Masters and Johnson search for purpose in a world without one another and look to work as their personal lives crash down around them. Libby finds herself alone for the first time since her marriage and discovers some unexpected allies. Season premiere.
Director:Colin Bucksey
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Colin Bucksey
Writer:Unknown
7.7/10(340 votes)
#13 - Inventory
S4:E29/18/2016
Masters and Johnson turn to new partners in an effort to put the past behind them and focus on their expanding clinic. Given their fractured triangle, Libby reevaluates her relationship with Bill and Virginia.
Director:Jeremy Webb
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Jeremy Webb
Writer:Unknown
7.7/10(329 votes)
#14 - The Pleasure Protocol
S4:E39/25/2016
Masters and Johnson adjust to new partners, but their respective cases have them second-guessing the instinct to remain separated. A romantic prospect pushes Libby to embrace life as a newly single woman of the sexual revolution.
Director:Adam Arkin
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Adam Arkin
Writer:Unknown
7.8/10(581 votes)
#15 - Kyrie Eleison
S2:E27/20/2014
Masters begins a new job at Memorial Hospital under Betty's extortion terms only to discover that his boss insists he leave Virginia behind in favor of a handpicked secretary. Meanwhile, Johnson is torn between pressing Masters to rehire her and staying by DePaul's side as her condition worsens.
Director:Michael Apted
Writer:David Flebotte
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Director:Michael Apted
Writer:David Flebotte
7.9/10(920 votes)
#16 - Standard Deviation
S1:E310/13/2013
Masters and Johnson continue their research in the brothel but skewed data confirms that Masters must get the study back into the hospital. At the hospital, Johnson is surprised to learn that a distinguished new doctor on the OB/GYN floor is a woman who has no interest in female solidarity. Meanwhile, Libby struggles to conceive and Dr. Ethan Haas gets the case of a lifetime – a woman pregnant with quadruplets.
Director:Lawrence Trilling
Writer:Sam Shaw
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Director:Lawrence Trilling
Writer:Sam Shaw
7.9/10(691 votes)
#17 - Parallax
S2:E17/13/2014
Masters deals with the ramifications of his disastrous presentation and being fired from the hospital. Meanwhile, Libby urges Masters to get another job; and Virginia fights off advances and innuendos stemming from the belief that she was the woman in Master's explicit film.
Director:Michael Apted
Writer:Michelle Ashford
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Director:Michael Apted
Writer:Michelle Ashford
7.9/10(563 votes)
#18 - Dirty Jobs
S2:E48/3/2014
Langham observes Masters and Johnson exiting a hotel room and shares his suspicions with DePaul, who is forced to make plans for her work without Virginia's involvement. Meanwhile, Betty attempts to conceal her infertility from Gene; and Masters tries to bring Johnson aboard as his assistant only to be thwarted by the head of the hospital, who takes a prurient interest in Masters' study.
Director:Michael Engler
Writer:Steven Levenson
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Director:Michael Engler
Writer:Steven Levenson
7.9/10(534 votes)
#19 - Asterion
S2:E78/24/2014
In the wake of Masters' discovery that Johnson has continued to have romantic relationships with other men, he becomes impotent without her knowledge and cuts off their sexual work together. He tries to keep his new clinic solvent over the course of three years by borrowing against his house, offering medical services to the hotel - and finally accepting money from his mother.
Director:Michael Dinner
Writers:Michelle Ashford, David Flebotte
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Director:Michael Dinner
Writers:Michelle Ashford, David Flebotte
7.9/10(485 votes)
#20 - Parliament of Owls
S3:E17/12/2015
Masters and Johnson face the press for the first time.
Director:Jeremy Webb
Writer:Michelle Ashford
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Director:Jeremy Webb
Writer:Michelle Ashford
7.9/10(483 votes)
#21 - Story of My Life
S2:E99/7/2014
Virginia continues to impersonate a patient's case history in order to glean advice from a psychiatrist. Betty and Masters' attempt to remedy Lester's impotence by hiring a prostitute rattles him even further. Libby gets the third degree when she offers her eyewitness testimony regarding the beaten man. And Barbara Sanders wrestles with an unsettling diagnosis that exposes a chain of secrets and causes Masters and Johnson to clash over their treatment strategy.
Director:Jeremy Webb
Writer:Amy Lippman
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Director:Jeremy Webb
Writer:Amy Lippman
7.9/10(355 votes)
#22 - The Eyes of God
S4:E1011/13/2016
Masters and Johnson work to save the practice from disintegrating in the face of insurrection within the clinic. As everyone in their lives either moves on or falls away, Bill and Virginia find solace in one another. Season finale.
Director:Michael Apted
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Michael Apted
Writer:Unknown
7.9/10(320 votes)
#23 - Night and Day
S4:E911/6/2016
Masters and Johnson return from Topeka, each grappling with the trip's ramifications. Art and Nancy look to tie up loose ends in order to have a fresh start, and Libby embarks on a road trip with Bram that changes her perspective.
Director:Karyn Kusama
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Karyn Kusama
Writer:Unknown
8.0/10(502 votes)
#24 - Below the Belt
S2:E109/14/2014
Masters learns of a rival study and calls in a public relations expert to help brand his work with Johnson. Virginia, having finally learned of Masters' sexual difficulties, is invigorated by the prospect of finding a cure. Determined to prove her worth to Robert, Libby canvases a tenement for a rent strike. Plus, Langham is stunned when Flo informs him that he has to have sex with her in order to keep his job. And Barbara and Lester connect over their shared sexual dysfunctions.
Director:Adam Arkin
Writers:Eileen Myers, Bathsheba Doran
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Director:Adam Arkin
Writers:Eileen Myers, Bathsheba Doran
8.0/10(549 votes)
#25 - Giants
S2:E58/10/2014
Masters continues to break new ground by continuing his study as the only white physician in a Negro hospital but at the cost of his gynecology practice. Libby is confronted by Coral's boyfriend, Robert, over her poor treatment of Coral, Betty reunites with her former lover, and Johnson struggles to right her relationship with DePaul - who is newly aware of Johnson's ongoing affair with Masters.
Director:Jeremy Webb
Writer:Bathsheba Doran
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Director:Jeremy Webb
Writer:Bathsheba Doran