It had to do with protecting living people." Episodes We were advised to add to protect the people that are still alive. Series creator Michelle Ashford explained, "We are telling a non-fiction story and one where there are people who are still alive out there, and those people need to be protected. Episodes featuring the children include a disclaimer where it states that their storylines are "entirely fictitious". In real life, Masters and Johnson each have two children, however, in the series they have three children each. Other than principal characters, which are partly fictionalized, adults are significantly fictionalized however, children are entirely fictionalized. Indeed, it's down these side streets, casting a brief light on a passing character (patients, prostitutes, a provost's wife), that the show finds many of its best moments." Because, mostly, it is, and because to the extent it tells the story of two real people, it also adorns the telling with dramatic practicalities, invented characters and narrative detours. The series begins in October 1956 and ends in August 1969 with the fourth season.Īs noted by the Los Angeles Times television critic, the series "hangs on bones of fact" "it's more useful for the viewer to think of it as all made up. The series explores the research and the relationship between William Masters ( Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson ( Lizzy Caplan), two pioneering researchers of human sexuality at Washington University in St.
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