Based on the biographical book by Thomas Maier, the show follows the work of groundbreaking sex researchers William Masters (Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan), from roughly 1956 to 1969. Now that we got that out of the way, let's talk generally about Masters of Sex. In other words, if your wallet can handle it, I think this set might give you the completion you're seeking. So, while it could be a whole lot better, it could also be worse. I'll get more into this in the technical review below but, despite the stingier encoding bitrates, season four is easily the best-looking batch of episodes in this set.

If you're a fan who has been collecting as you go, and you just want season four on disc finally!, is this new set worth it for you? With no new bonuses, and a more compressed presentation, the answer is a definitive. Now, Sony has licensed the show to budget label Mill Creek, and they have done what they do best: crammed the entire show onto 8 discs (half the scale of Sony's four-disc-per-season sets) and packaged them all together. Hardcore fans could scrounge up a region-free season three set from Europe, but that's it for stand-alone seasons. Masters of Sex, which premiered in 2013 and ran for four well-liked if not commercially earth-shattering seasons on Showtime, received full-fledged Blu-ray releases for its first two seasons in North America (DVD Talk has a review of Sony's season one set). And new shows are certainly not spared from this fate. As fans of old shows like Gunsmoke and Perry Mason can attest, sometimes it feels like it takes longer than the original show ran on the air to get studios to release all the episodes on DVD or Blu-ray. It shouldn't be so hard for a disc-loving fan of TV, but sometimes it can be. NOTE: The images included here are promotional stills that do not represent the quality of the Blu-ray set under review.

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