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Dying for Sex

★ 7.6 14K votes 2025–2025 1 season · 8 episodes Ended Hulu
BittersweetJoy and loss mixed so thoroughly they can't be separated.This show: 9/10Female perspectiveWomen's experience as the defining lens.This show: 9/10Sexually explicitFrank sexual content.This show: 8/10TearjerkerEngineered to make you cry, and it works.This show: 8/10FriendshipA friend group's dynamics carry the show.This show: 8/10Emotionally heavyDemands real emotional stamina from the viewer.This show: 8/10Character studyInterior life matters more than plot.This show: 8/10Strong female leadA complex woman drives the story.This show: 8/10
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Starring
Michelle WilliamsJenny SlateRob DelaneyJay DuplassKelvin YuDavid Rasche
Written by
Elizabeth MeriwetherKim Rosenstock
Starring
Michelle WilliamsJenny SlateRob DelaneyJay DuplassKelvin YuDavid Rasche
Written by
Elizabeth MeriwetherKim Rosenstock
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"Desire and mortality tangled into something oddly joyful"

Diagnosed with terminal cancer, a woman abandons her unsatisfying marriage to pursue pleasure on her own terms, aided by her devoted best friend. Based on a true story, the show swings between raw grief and frank, often funny sexual frankness without flinching from either. It's tender and blackly comic at once, carried by a fearless lead performance and a friendship that anchors the chaos. Eight tight episodes move fast, favoring intimacy over plot mechanics, and the show never lets the terminal diagnosis smother its curiosity about desire, autonomy, and what it means to actually live.

Watch it for

a fearless lead performance that makes grief, humor, and desire feel simultaneously true.

Maybe skip if

you're uncomfortable with explicit sexual content paired closely with terminal illness.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Miniseries2025
7.65K84h 6m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Good Value Diet Soda7.2
92027 min
▶2Masturbation is Important7.1
60929 min
▶3Feelings Can Become Amplified7.4
56628 min
▶4Topping Is a Sacred Skill7.4
54327 min
▶5My Pet7.6
52832 min
▶6Happy Holidays7.6
51533 min
▶7You're Killing Me, Ernie7.8
52935 min
▶8It's Not That Serious8.6
65735 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Michelle Williams Molly Kochan
Jenny Slate Nikki Boyer
Rob Delaney Neighbor Guy
Jay Duplass Steve
Kelvin Yu Noah
David Rasche Dr. Pankowitz
Esco Jouley Sonya
Annabelle Toomey Young Molly
Tony Macht Teddy
Margaret Cho

Crew

Elizabeth Meriwether
Kim Rosenstock

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