History YMMV / MastersOfSex

* SeasonalRot: Season 1 was very well received. Season 2 started great, but after the time skip the show started to focus on plotlines too distant from the study that serves as the show's premise, such as Austin becoming a diet pill salesman, or Betty and Helen's attempt to have a baby (though, such plotlines [[FranchiseOriginalsin were already present earlier in the show]], with Dr. Depaul's cancer, which was seen as a high point of the show).

* SeasonalRot: Season 1 was very well received. Season 2 started great, but after the time skip the show started to focus on plotlines too distant from the study that serves as the show's premise, such as Austin becoming a diet pill salesman, or Betty and Helen's attempt to have a baby (though, such plotlines [[FranchiseOriginalsin were already present earlier in the show]], with Dr. Depaul's cancer, which was seen as a high point of the show). Many viewers felt the writers had permanently lost the ball in "Monkey Business", the episode where Virginia got fondled by a not very convincing gorilla. It was clearly a JumpingTheShark moment.

* SeasonalRot: Season 1 was very well received. Season 2 started great, but after the time skip the show started to focus on plotlines too distant from the study that serves as the show's premise, such as Austin becoming a diet pill salesman, or Betty and Helen's attempt to have a baby (though, such plotlines [[FranchiseOriginalsin were already present earlier in the show]], with Dr. Depaul's cancer, which was seen as a high point of the show). Many viewers felt the writers had permanently lost the ball in "Monkey Business", the episode where Virginia got fondled by a not very convincing gorilla.

* SeasonalRot: Season 1 was very well received. Season 2 started great, but after the time skip the show started to focus on plotlines too distant from the study that serves as the show's premise, such as Austin becoming a diet pill salesman, or Betty and Helen's attempt to have a baby (though, such plotlines [[FranchiseOriginalsin were already present earlier in the show]], with Dr. Depaul's cancer, which was seen as a high point of the show). Many viewers felt the writers had permanently lost the ball in "Monkey Business", the episode where Virginia get fondled by a not very convincing gorilla.

* SeasonalRot Season 1 was very well received. Season 2 started great, but after the time skip the show started to focus on plotlines too distant from the study that serves as the show's premise, such as Austin becoming a diet pill salesman, or Betty and Helen's attempt to have a baby (though, such plotlines [[FranchiseOriginalsin were already present earlier in the show]], with Dr. Depaul's cancer, which was seen as a high point of the show). Many viewers felt the writers had permanently lost the ball in "Monkey Business", the episode where Virginia get fondled by a not very convincing gorilla.

* JumpingTheShark: Or in this case Flashing the Ape. Season 1 was very well received. Season 2 started great, but after the time skip the show started to focus on plotlines too distant from the study that serves as the show's premise, such as Austin becoming a diet pill salesman, or Betty and Helen's attempt to have a baby (though, such plotlines [[FranchiseOriginalsin were already present earlier in the show]], with Dr. Depaul's cancer, which was seen as a high point of the show). Many viewers felt the writers had permanently lost the ball in "Monkey Business", the episode where Virginia get fondled by a not very convincing gorilla.

* JumpingTheShark: Or in this case Flashing the Ape. Season 1 was a very well received. Season 2 started great, but after the time skip the show started to focus on plotlines too distant from the study that serves as the show's premise, such as Austin becoming a diet pill salesman, or Betty and Helen's attempt to have a baby (though, such plotlines [[FranchiseOriginalsin were already present earlier in the show]], with Dr. Depaul's cancer, which was seen as a high point of the show). Many viewers felt the writers had permanently lost the ball in "Monkey Business", the episode where Virginia get fondled by a not very convincing gorilla.

* ValuesDissonance: The treatment of sex, the treatment of gays, the treatment of women in the work place, the treatment of women seeking a higher education, relationships between the sexes, and so on are just some of the things which get analyzed in detail.

* JerkassWoobie: Bill is an arrogant jerk who's emotionally reserved to the extreme, but he also had a pretty abusive childhood, is legitimately trying to make the world a better place and suffers pretty severe backlash to an overall benevolent study.