Dying for Sex

This reminds me that we've talked about on the show how I you know, we live in L.A. and there's it's just like my kids are being raised around billboards everywhere.

And there were billboards for the Michelle Williams show called Dying for Sex.

all over the place and we never mentioned it like we just drove past them on the way to school and one day i like didn't sleep well and i get up in the morning and evan just says like how are you and i was like i'm dying and across the room rio goes dying for sex And Evan and I laughed so hard that clearly he was like, oh, that what I just said is funny.

And from that moment on, he would use the word sex all the time.

He would just like, one time we were playing charades with another family and he was trying to act out sex.

Like it was funny in that one particular context, but this is not just something that you could throw around.

Yeah.

telling people you're dying for sex.

This episode, we are going to be talking about Furious, the new Hulu series by Liz Meriwether.

If you listen to my podcast on dying for sex, you know that I'm a huge fan of Liz Meriwether's writing.

And Furious shows her and her writing team going to a new genre, with her style.

She's doing a procedural cop serial killer show.

And this is certainly not the kind of writing that we've come to expect from the showrunner of New Girl and Dying for Sex.

But there's also something very interesting about the way that this series, Furious, works.

In that, in order for the series to go where it needs to go with the effect that that needs to have on the audience, It needs to start us out in a place that feels like a traditional procedural cop drama.

The only thing else I've seen him in ever is Deadpool, and he's been hilarious in all of them.

And I have to say, he was in a show I love called Dying for Sex, and he was great in that.

He's a funny actor, but now he's reading other parts.

No, but it's so good.

Such a girl show, dying for sex.

Dying for it.

It's like Dawn's books.

Yeah.

Dying for Sex.

Oh, and

The Dropout.

But first, Nikki Boya is an actress, singer, Emmy Award-winning television host.

More recently, she's widely recognized as a co-creator and the host of acclaimed podcast Dying for Sex, which was adapted into the Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated TV series starring Michelle Williams, also called Dying for Sex.

It follows the story of Molly, Nikki's terminally ill best friend, who leaves her marriage to explore her sexual desires before she dies.

Joining Nikki is our newest contributor, Keryn Curtis.

We were driving in the car and I said, I think this is a show.

I think this is a show.

And I think it's called Dying for Sex.

It just all came to me.

Her name is Nikki Boyer.

She's the creator of Dying for Sex, which is the podcast and now television show phenomena based on her life.

I can't wait for you guys to meet her, and I just can't wait to get into this.

Nikki Boyer, welcome to the show.

She found me on the internet.

I was on TikTok scrolling, and you just kept...

I think because I was working on Dying for Sex, so my algorithm was very death doula, hospice nurse, death friendly, um, puppy rescue, and recipes.

[laughs] Right.

I don't know if you...

Did you watch that show, Dying for Sex?

No.

So there was a, a show on, I think it was on Hulu or FX.