Dying for sex: true love is that of your best friend

Molly, patient of terminal cancer, turns to her best friend Nikki and says to her: «I don’t want to die with him. I want to die with you ». He is her husband Steve, a good man who, however, has locked his wife in the role of patient and himself in that of caregiver, and in these two sentences there is a bit of the nucleus and the stress (when the two coincide is deadly) of Dying for sexthe series with Michelle Williams on Disney+. It is a series on death and sex, as the title suggests, but also on real choices, on the joy of living and above all on female friendship. What do you want to do when you know that time is counted?, He finds himself asking Molly himself. The most surprising and moving thing about Dying for sex It is that within this apparent tragedy, in reality, Molly finds freedom, the real one, which derives from letting go and accept reality as it is. Molly understands that, after a peaceful life but without much joy, she wants to recover and explore sexual pleasure, with that body that is about to leave with her. He goes to bed with strangers, buy a vibrator, go into the territories of sadomasochism, and basically he cares about the rules and conventions.

Taken from the Nikki Boyer Podcast of the same name, the miniseries on Disney+ is mainly a hymn to friendship between women. Molly and Nikki decide to spend the time that remains together; Nikki is a bit crazy and impulsive, but decides to support his friend on his journey to discover pleasure, he pushes her to tell her, laugh, to disobey the narrative of the virtuous patient. There are moments and sensations that can only be lived with the best friends, we already learn it on kindergarten, with that type of complicity it cannot be replicated with the males of one’s life. The friendship between Molly and Nikki is the one that remains when everything else has been stripped away: husbands, conventions, fear.