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Masters of Sex premieres the night of the finale for AMC's crime epic Breaking Bad, which seems like a capper to an era of violent men behaving badly that began with The Sopranos. Masters of Sex isn't the next Breaking Bad but a sign of what might come after. Like Netflix's women-in-prison serial Orange Is the New Black, it finds drama beyond macho dudes; like PBS's Call the Midwife, it shows that reproduction can be literally life and death; like FX's The Americans, it's based on male-female partnership. When you can make ambitious TV drama without a tortured antihero, that is a brave new world.