"By the end, the sex scenes many and varied though they may be are just a bagatelle. Partly this is because there is no false hope offered here. None of the sexy set pieces are a full escape from reality. The series is based on a true story and the podcast made about Molly Kochan's decision to cram years of sexual experience into the little time she was told she had left before metastasised breast cancer killed her."
"And partly it is because, thanks to a clever, tender and blackly comic script by Elizabeth Meriwether and Kim Rosenstock, and a deeply nuanced performance by Michelle Williams as Molly, it increasingly becomes a meditation on what it means to live well and die well. It expands definitions as it goes on. First of sex itself. You early millennials are so tragic, says Sonya, a gen Z member of Molly's care team. You think sex is just penetration. Why? Because that's what Samantha said?"
Molly, a fortysomething woman with metastatic breast cancer, leaves her husband and seeks to compress years of sexual experience into the little time she has left. Numerous encounters — including sex parties, age‑gap hookups, pup play and learning cock‑cage mechanics — are shown without offering false hope about mortality. A tender, blackly comic script and a nuanced lead performance frame the episodes as explorations of pleasure, identity and intimacy rather than mere titillation. Interactions with younger care‑team members and a neighbor broaden Molly’s understanding of sex, revealing what she truly enjoys and turning the arc into a meditation on living well and dying well. Ultimately the sexual scenes become a bagatelle beside questions of meaning, agency and connection in the face of inevitable death.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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