Betsy Brandt joins Masters Of Sex
Cementing her role as prestige drama’s one-woman vice squad, Betsy Brandt is moving on from the meth-choked cul-de-sacs of Albuquerque to the sex-choked (but in a cold, clinical way) hallways of academia. The former Breaking Bad star and most-likely-former–Michael J. Fox Show star will appear in the second season of Masters Of Sex, playing the only secretary who’s yet to be scandalized by or become a participant in the pioneering research of William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Her character, Barbara, fills a vacancy previously left by Lizzy Caplan’s Virginia, Caitlin FitzGerald’s Libby Masters, and Margo Martindale’s Miss Horchow—a high-profile casting that suggests Masters Of Sex is angling to establish a Murphy Brown-style revolving door of office administrators. If so, The A.V. Club hopes to see Paul Reubens sitting behind that desk no later than season three.