James Poniewozik

I don't care if you're Jewish.

I don't care if you're not Jewish.

I choose you.

No, representation is important.

Yeah, there was a lot of freaky stuff going on in the Bible.

Yes.

It's Dying for Sex, a limited series that was about sex and especially about dying.

It was adapted from a story about a woman who

who has a terminal diagnosis of cancer, played by Michelle Williams in the miniseries, who has a terminal diagnosis of cancer and sets out basically to cross off a big item on her bucket list, which is to finally have an orgasm.

And it becomes both a story of, you know, the journey of the end of life, which I felt was kind of...

open and frank about the dying process in a way that as much death as there can be on TV, I've rarely seen.

The final episode, you know, no spoilers, but, like, you can guess what happens.

No.

The final episode was fantastic in this respect, dealing with the hospice experience and so on.

But also, you know, and I realize that people are, like, running from this description probably right now, an incredibly funny show in a way that, you know, was...

Honest and cathartic and daring Michelle Williams is fantastic in it.

Jenny Slate is very good.

It was an example of something I think I always look for in television, which is the idea that

Uh, funny is not the opposite of serious.

Uh, and that you often can, and frankly, often need to, uh, use humor in the service of kind of deep and powerful ideas.