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Dying for Sex

Dying for Sex is an American comedy drama miniseries. Based loosely on the real-life experiences of Molly Kochan and written by Liz Meriwether and Kim Rosenstock, the show depicts her being diagnosed with terminal cancer and leaving her husband in search of an orgasm. The series stars Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate, with recurring features from Rob Delaney, David Rasche, Esco Jouléy, Jay Duplass, Kelvin Yu, Sissy Spacek, and Zack Robidas. Broadcast on April 4, 2025, on Hulu and Disney+, the show made the top ten most-streamed series in the U.S. from March 31 to April 6 and received largely positive critical reception.

At the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards, the miniseries has received nine nominations, including for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series and acting nominations for Williams, Slate, and Delaney.

Molly starts the series ten years into an unhappy marriage with her husband Steve, a pompous journalist; she is also inhibited by the traumatic effects of her mother's boyfriend forcing oral sex from her at the age of seven. Her doctor calls her during a couples therapy session with Steve to say that a biopsy they had taken on her hip showed Stage IV metastatic breast cancer that had infiltrated her bones, brain, and liver; she responds by leaving the therapy session to buy a two-liter bottle of white-label diet soda and menthols at a bodega across the street. She calls her friend Nikki, who is overwhelmed by the news. Her tamoxifen increases her libido, and Molly attempts to give her husband fellatio in their kitchen, only for him to start crying as her breasts reminded him of her death. At the hospital, she tells counselor Sonya that she had never had an orgasm with another person and their conversation inspires Molly to leave Steve and explore her sexuality.

In the second episode, Molly signs for a dating app and is pleased to receive multiple dick pics. At a subsequent hospital visit, she is told the doctors will induce menopause. On her way out, she invites an app user to a hotel, but backs out after seeing him; she then does the same for a guy in an elevator, but rescinds the invitation after opting not to risk having to explain her mastectomy scars. Once there, she orders a vibrator and orgasms to Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in Speed, a clownfish entering and exiting a coral reef, and in front of a male webcam model, the last of which infects Nikki's laptop with viruses. She then throws her overheating vibrator into an ice bucket. The man promptly blackmails her, causing her to call Nikki and then Steve; the latter shames Molly, prompting her to gather possessions and leave him immediately, later moving in with Nikki. Steve hands Molly's medical records to Nikki, who promptly loses them.

While debriefing with Nikki at a bar, she leaves in an Uber with a patron, who prematurely ejaculates on their way to have sex; the driver dumps them at a highway divider. Having attended a Stage IV cancer group in episode three, she visits a group for those with curable cancer, but is ejected to avoid disconcerting its members. Following an abortive encounter with an inexperienced 25-year-old, Molly starts masturbating and hears her neighbor also doing so; aroused at the thought he is doing so to her, she orgasms. The pair subsequently run into each other while he's emptying his trash in the hallway; her ordering him to pick it up moves both of them to run to their rooms and masturbate and Molly to deny him permission to ejaculate. Molly later enters his apartment and orders him to masturbate. At his request, she kicks him in the penis and the movement causes her femur to snap. Molly begins searching for submissive males online and finds Hooper, a successful Wall Street trader into penis humiliation and penis cages; she tries to mock his penis but struggles as she considers it beautiful.

At Sonya's suggestion, Molly and Nikki attend a "kink-forward, play-party potluck", where Molly witnesses Sonya's ex G slowly instructing a woman masturbate on a table. Impressed, Molly visits G at her workplace, where G tells Molly to attempt submission before attempting dominance; following an abortive attempt at the latter with the finance bro, Molly submits to G at the back room of her home goods store. That afternoon, she returns to hospital, where she asserts her wants and needs with her doctor, and explores her relationship with Neighbor Guy. She then conquers a man who has a kink for pup play and checks him for ticks. In episode five, Nikki is unavailable due to anaesthesia from dental surgery, so Molly is taken to the hospital by her mother Gail, a recovering addict who brings uninvited guests; Molly also sees Steve and his girlfriend. Nikki does not reply to Molly's texts, so she instead invites her pup player to snuggle with her for shock value. Nikki breaks up with her boyfriend Noah after he switches off her phone post-surgery.

At home, Molly attempts to urinate on her pet, but is interrupted by her mother, and neither can take Molly's pet's collar off; Molly calls Neighbor Guy and Gail tells him about Molly's cancer. After Gail leaves, Molly and Neighbor Guy discuss her condition and his past and she resumes kicking his penis. Molly spends Thanksgiving with Neighbor Guy and experiments with butt plugs. She attempts to orgasm with him, but freezes from trauma. At her cancer group, Sonya directs the attendees to write about their fears and then to move their bodies at will while others read their stories. Molly suffers a deep-vein thrombosis and spends Christmas in hospital. Wanting to orgasm, she ignores Nikki's plans and Neighbor Guy and orders a dojo owner from Queens to masturbate on New Year's Eve; following an argument with Nikki, Molly runs out to the dojo owner's car, but loses sensation in her hand. She subsequently apologizes to Nikki.

Molly sees Neighbor Guy while out and collapses shortly afterwards, prompting the pair to profess their love for one another; at the hospital, her collapse is revealed to be caused by a collapsed lung and she is intubated. Faced with the possibility that Molly could die if her breathing tube is removed, Nikki decides to have it removed for Molly's comfort. Thankfully, Molly is able to breathe on her own and the two resume their goal of helping Molly have an orgasm with another person. Nikki leaves the hospital to collect Neighbor Guy and Molly's things from her apartment, but is interrupted by her car being towed and then by Noah calling her; he brings Molly a bag of vibrators and Nikki some soup. A subsequent lumbar puncture reveals that her cancer has spread to the spine and she needs to enter hospice care, between which Neighbor Guy makes Molly orgasm. She spends her final weeks with Nikki and Gail, and being looked after by Nurse Amy, with one final visit from Noah. After Molly's death, Nikki rekindles her relationship with Noah.

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