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Critic Reviews
Sep 4, 2025
Season 1 Review:
To call the FX/Hulu limited series a sitcom would be to diminish the healing positivity it lavishes on both title subjects. Yet laugh-out-loud comedic it consistently is. Poignant and adorable too. Empowering if that’s what you want from it, but not insistent in that regard. Any tears the show will bring are eminently earned. And there’s a good chance it’ll get you hot. .... It’s difficult to recall any actor giving as much in-the-moment believability as Williams delivers in these eight half hours.
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Screen RantAug 28, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It's not going to leave you galvanized to pursue your most outrageous, impractical dreams under a "life is short" banner. Instead, it will rip out your heart, rearrange it a bit, give it a good stomping, and then put it back in, and I'm not sure that I will ever be the same.
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The PlaylistApr 7, 2025
Season 1 Review:
While the sexual elements are fodder for outstanding sparkle and wittiness, the deep, touching connection between Nikki and Molly truly becomes the heart of the show. Wistful, tragic, funny and engaging, “Dying For Sex” is a super captivating story of self-determination, healing and reckoning with death.
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The GuardianApr 3, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Dying for Sex manages to upend just about every expectation. .... Contributing to the success of this endeavour is the fact that at least as much time and loving attention is given to illustrating the friendship between Molly and Nikki. From the start, you can sense their long history in every exchange, but as the series and the disease progresses we watch the balance between them shift. .... By the end it is not just the definition of sex that has been expanded but that of soulmate too.
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IndieWireApr 4, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Williams roots Molly’s years-long saga in vivid, life-affirming, human characteristics that naturally emphasize the story’s central thesis: that getting off together isn’t just what makes life worth living; it is life. Her supporting cast is an embarrassment of riches, starting with Slate, whose screentime and depth nearly make Nikki a co-lead.
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Mar 27, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Molly’s story rarely plays like a tragedy. It is, instead, a brutally frank, disarmingly raunchy, often uproariously funny rejoinder to the perfect-patient narrative—an affirmation of life through the insistence that there’s no wrong way to face the certain death that ultimately awaits us all.
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The Mercury NewsApr 4, 2025
RogerEbert.comMar 27, 2025
Apr 9, 2025
The Observer (UK)Apr 7, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Even with short, half-hour(ish) episodes, Dying for Sex is still two instalments too long, and for some the juxtaposition of sexual high jinks and mortality may jar. Personally, I loved it: as well as sexual emancipation, it’s also about love, friendship and living life on your own terms until the last fierce, bittersweet moment.
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Apr 7, 2025
Season 1 Review:
FX’s latest half-hour comedy won’t be for everyone because of the graphic depiction of a woman. .... But “Dying for Sex” — all eight episodes stream April 4 on Hulu — inspires a lot of laughs, too, thanks to Molly’s voiceover observations and her interactions with scattered best friend Nikki (Jenny Slate).
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The IndependentApr 3, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It is credit, then, to Williams’s performance, and the lightness of touch that Meriwether brings, that Dying for Sex manages to bottle the intimacy of the podcast form. In spite of its subject matter, it feels soothing, a parasocial balm to the ills of the human condition. It might not be family viewing, but it has a universality.
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Apr 4, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Shine up an Emmy for Michelle Williams—hilarious and heartbreaking in this true story of a 40-ish podcaster who only works up the courage to push the limits of sexual identity after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. Jenny Slate shines as her partner in letting go.
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Apr 4, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It lives and dies by Williams’s performance. Williams nails the paradox at the center of the show: As Molly’s body grows weaker, her self-possession grows stronger. She’s so frail — but also not. .... For all the ways “Dying for Sex” is transgressive and audacious in its frankness about pain and pleasure, it can also feel awfully generic.
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The TelegraphApr 4, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The episodes are only 30 minutes each, which adds flippancy to a bleak subject. Molly and Nikki (Jenny Slate) have mastered gallows humour. Eventually, the sex becomes an annoying distraction – the scenes that feel tender and true and most amusing are the ones between the two best friends.
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