Masters of Sex: Undue Influence

August 2, 2015 8:44 PM - Season 3, Episode 4

Masters seeks advice on convincing Johnson to go on a book tour; Margaret Scully and her new partner seek help at the clinic; Virginia is distracted by news of Henry; Libby tries to help Paul and Joy.
posted by oh yeah! (2 comments total)

It just clicked for me (even though I have read the book) that "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is a book on how to do emotional labor.

And poor poor Tessa, I was hoping that she would open up to Betty, but a few more school suspensions and she'll spill the beans. Betty knows how to talk to her like she's a person and would also be very great at handling the situation.
posted by LizBoBiz at 4:53 PM on August 3, 2015

Finally a return to the sorts of episodes that made me love this show. Michelle Ashford had said in an interview that this season had to take care of some obligatory storytelling that wasn't necessarily the stories they'd have preferred to be telling, and those first three episodes sure did feel like a slog. Nice to see it picking up again in this episode.
posted by scrowdid at 2:02 AM on August 16, 2015