![]() ![]() I almost took it as an inside joke … about male sexuality …Whether that works or not is up to the viewer. Here he breaks down which of this season’s storylines are inspired by fact - and which are pure Hollywood fiction. To investigate, The Post called up Thomas Maier, author of the biography “Masters of Sex,” on which the Showtime series is based (and a producer on the show). Then, two weeks ago, the series introduced Masters and Johnson to a very unorthodox patient - a gorilla, which had us asking, “Did that really happen?” ![]() It deviated notably this season by giving Virginia (Lizzy Caplan) and Bill (Michael Sheen) each a third child that neither had (producers were advised to do so amid legal concerns). Thomas Maier Janette Pellegrini/Getty Images for Hamptons Magazine Showtime’s “Masters of Sex” is based on the work and lives of real-life sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson - but the series has always taken certain dramatic liberties when adapting their history to television. ![]()
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