Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate star in Hulu’s cancer comedy based on the 2020 podcast.
Her breast cancer is back, and now its Stage IV.
Youre going to be dead in less than five years, it doesnt matter.
Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate in ‘Dying for Sex’.Credit:FX Networks/YouTube
Nothing matters, she tells herself while ogling a hot guy in a hotel elevator.
which saps a lot of comedy from the cringe.
But Mollys sex quest, as Steve calls it, often intersects with her medical care in provocative ways.
Michelle Williams and Jay Duplass in ‘Dying for Sex’.Sarah Shatz/FX
Annoyed, Nikki interrupts: How is having a dry vagina a mental health issue?
Molly is not just a cancer patient; shes afemalecancer patient whos reliant on the male-dominated healthcare industry.
Dying for Sexis at its most effective when it allows the subtext of Mollys desires to take center stage.
Rob Delaney in ‘Dying for Sex’.Sarah Shatz/FX
You look so nice!
If youre dying, why are you f—ing weirdly vibing right now?
demands a tearful Nikki.
Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate in ‘Dying for Sex’.Sarah Shatz/FX
Like, glowing from within?
The superb cast helpsDying for Sexovercome its jokier excesses.
(Paula Pellas an incongruously chipper hospice nurse!Margaret Choas Mollys cancer support-group buddy!
Zack Robidas as the cock-cage aficionado!)
When the inevitable comes for Molly (pun intended), it is devastating and beautiful.
With only eight half-hour episodes,Dying for Sexis a quick I hesitate to say “easy” binge.
