Dying For Sex (FX-Hulu mini-series 2025)
Our first instinct when we heard about this series.......avoid it at all costs. Watching someone die from metastatic breast cancer that spread through their bones? Hard pass.
We changed our mind based on several key factors
Primary #1. - star Michelle Williams, one of BQ's all time faves, one of those talents who justifies that phrase, "we'd sit through 6 hours of her reading from the phone book...." This luminous gifted actress never, ever disappoints.
#2. The show held out the promise of loads of sex and laughs, along with the gut wrenching scenes of terminal illness and death. In that regard, the show didn't disappoint either.
Based on a woman's real life experiences, we follow the bumptious, painful path of Molly (Williams), who thought she'd survived breast cancer. Now the disease has come roaring back in her hip and spreading throughout her bones,brain and liver.
Trapped in a 15 year orgasm-free marriage and haunted by her sexual assault as a child, Molly jettisons her husband as she sets out on a new journey.......to explore and experience as much earth-moving sex as she can before the cancer claims her life.
With the everlasting support of her best friend Nikki (Jenny Slate, as equally spectacular as Williams), Molly's wild tour through unorthodox sexual techniques and positions is hilariously bizarre and Williams' performance more than lives up the FX channel's slogan of 'Fearless'.
In her quest for orgasmic nirvana, Molly recruits 'Neighbor Guy' (Rob Delaney) from her apartment building, a man both intimidated and entranced by her urgent lusts. And we can promise you won't know whether to laugh out loud, cringe and sigh with deep sympathy at their scenes together.
Altogether an amazing series and you won't find anything else like it among the tonnage of streaming content now available. Michelle Williams always raises the bar for herself and Jenny Slate matches her every step of the way.
Even with the endless Everest of TV choices, BQ recommends you move this one to the top of your 'don't miss' list.
5 stars (*****).
No comments:
Post a Comment