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“I WANT TO HAVE HIS BABIES”

*A LOT

Michael Sheen & Lizzy Caplan - Masters of Sex  

Apparently Tumblr doesn’t allow more than 5 videos per post, so here is the second part for the MoS Season 3 audition tapes.

Go here for the first part of the post, and go under the cut for spoilers.

Paul Wontorek interviews Annaleigh Ashford about Masters of Sex, her Tony Award nomination & more.

Because examroom5 requested an update. Legit watching them now before I have to go GRADUATE TONIGHT so there’s only gonna be a few of these. UPDATED AS I WATCH THEM.

EDIT: There are no deleted sex scenes. Sorry. There’s a bit more exposition, and emphasis on the word “affair” and what that means to different characters. 

Most of the first episode is Bill and Libby arguing while Baby Masters cries a bunch. Libby wants “one hour” so that she can take a shower, but Bill has a *~*meeting*~* and runs off. When she asks about his assumed name, it’s because he’s been sending rave reviews of the study to journals under other peoples’ names in the hopes that the journals would publish it. 

The only other deleted scene for Parallax is Gini making a diet pill sales pitch on a woman’s doorstep while the woman tries to turn her down. 

There are no deleted scenes for Kyrie Eleison or Fight. (!!!!!)

Giants is Gini trying to convince patients to come over to Buell Green.

Blackbird has Coral and Libby talking and Coral basically running the household.

OKAY SO THE CRUCIAL SCENE THAT WE’RE ALL WONDERING ABOUT IS BILL COMING INTO THE HOTEL ROOM AND FINDING GINI LOCKED IN THE BATHROOM CRYING.  Bill says “Virginia, let me in.” “No.”  “What is it? If you don’t tell me, I can’t help.” “You can’t help.” “I certainly can’t help with a door between us.” She opens the door, still sitting on the ground. “She’s dying,” Gini says. 

There’s an extended version of the scene with Lillian wandering through her house after Gini has left, looking at her things.

Asterion — Gini is helping Betty bring her stuff into the office, and tells Betty she’s sorry she and Gene got divorced and talks about her first marriage. She got a broken typewriter and a crate of frozen pork chops as her settlement. Betty says all she got from her divorce was her fur and her diamond ring, and she still had to go to court and admit she was an adulteress. Gini says “You had an affair?” and immediately feels guilty. Betty talks about her time in the brothel and says that faking love is a trick even a hooker couldn’t pull off. Gini asks about Helen. 

Libby finally gets to go to the play park and hang out with the other moms, who are gossiping about men having affairs. One comes over and says hi, introduces the others, and they ask her if she has “just the one?” Libby says she’s hoping for others. Turns out the other women were talking about a soap opera.

It’s Johnny’s birthday again, and Libby is repeating her “special day” speech. She has Johnny dressed in a dapper little outfit, overalls with a white shirt, a tiny bowtie, and a silver crown. He toddles to the door and she follows him, laughing. 

Betty and Bill in the elevator. Betty says she’s grateful for the job, that she was “this close” to eating cat food, and Bill replies by saying that this job will involve discretion. Bill mentions that hooking must involve protecting anonymity. Betty mentions “the paranoid” type of john who wouldn’t be seen within a mile of a brothel, and that this was something the girls had to deal with, that they had some method of servicing that type of client. This seems to hint that Bill got the idea of visiting hookers in alleys from Betty, but it’s unclear what Betty knows in this scene—she could be hinting at something. They walk out of the elevator, and see a man looking through the Clinic window before it’s opened. He greets them. I have no recollection who this guy is—the loan officer who turns Bill down maybe?

Mirror, Mirror has no deleted scenes. 

Story of My Life: Bill asks some black men in an alley about a restaurant. Frank comes out and brings Bill in, presumably to the AA meeting. 

Libby is sitting outside the office building in a car. Robert walks by. Someone calls out to him, and she ducks down in her seat. SUPER CREEP.

In Below the Belt, Libby is telling Johnny to behave for Grandma Essie and share his crayons with his sister. Bill comes out and Libby remarks that he and Essie were up late talking. He takes two aspirin from the kitchen drawer, takes them with water, and reaches for the coffee pot. Libby says they’re out, and she’ll pick some up tomorrow. Bill is shocked (SHOCKED!) at the idea of coffee tomorrow. Libby talks about her work with CORE and how “they” are going to be canvassing apartments. She leaves and tells Bill she’ll “see him at the office.”

Same episode, Bill comes home late and tries to fix himself a drink in the dark. He knocks over a glass, and swears loudly. Libby comes out of the bedroom in pajamas and he says he’s tired after a hard day at work. She obviously doesn’t believe him and kind of rolls her eyes. He tells her he saw her today at the office, and goes on at length about how her work isn’t important, and CORE is just “using her to show that they can get a wealthy white woman to do their dirty work.” Libby defends herself sarcastically, telling him that great figures go nowhere without someone to cook and clean for them, and says, “You know where the broom is,” in regards to the broken glass on the floor.

Same episode, Gini is leaving the office (LOOKING LIKE A GORGEOUS SEX GODDESS OBVS) and Austin comes running toward her. He says that Flo has threatened to fire him if he doesn’t have sex with her, and Gini is amused. “I’ll lose my job! That’s outrageous!” Gini agrees, and says “You’re hardly the first person to be coerced into sex as a condition of your employment,” although she thinks it’s kind of funny. He asks her for advice, and she says “Gamble and say no, that’s what I always do, that your work contributions are enough, that you’re indispensable. Be charming without being offensive, that always works… sometimes not.” He gives some anecdote about an unattractive girl in high school pushing herself on him.

Same episode, Bill comes out of the elevator to find children running all over the place. He starts to look panicked and sees Herb Spleeb (the lawyer who looks like Don Rickles) trying to corral people. Herb goes up to Barbara and comforts her as if she were a client, telling her she’s going to be okay, but Barbara isn’t his client and looks very confused. Bill tells her that he’ll deal with it. Betty comes up with a new tenant, a financier who used to work with Morgan Stanley. Bill is intrigued, but Betty says the man is a bookie now. The man talks about how it’s a temporary setback and great men always wind up back where they belong. 

No deleted scenes for “One For the Money”. 

The last episode: A nice little scene without dialog (I think this is after all the hot sex/sensate therapy where Bill and Gini succeed) where Bill comes out of the bathroom and into the bedroom where Libby is already asleep. He gets into bed, lies back, and sighs, a very slight smile on his face. He turns out the light, snuggles down into the covers, and peacefully goes to sleep.