TV Mailbag: The Greatness of 'Dying for Sex,' the Espionage Renaissance, and More
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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David, Richard, and Rebecca get into one of their favorite new shows of the year, the Michelle Williams-Jenny Slate vehicle Dying for Sex (streaming on Hulu starting Friday), before answering more listener questions about new comedies worth watching, the spy dramas in the hunt for Emmy love, and the state of the reality-competition landscape, fresh off of standout Survivor and Drag Race episodes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Fares podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm David Canfield. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm Richard Lawson. |
| 0:11.4 | And I'm Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:15.1 | Today is our first MEE's mailbag day. |
| 0:18.4 | We're going to be answering some listener questions, getting into |
| 0:21.2 | some controversies left over from last season, and we're going to close with a question |
| 0:25.5 | about the current reality landscape, which I feel like over the last few weeks just got |
| 0:29.3 | a lot more interesting. So thanks to everybody who wrote in, we'll just keep reading questions |
| 0:33.7 | as we get them over the course of Emmy season. But before we do that, there is one new TV |
| 0:38.9 | show that I have been dying to talk about. How about you guys? Yeah. Yes. The show is dying for sex. |
| 0:46.0 | It's an FX series starring Michelle Williams as a woman who finds out she has a terminal form of |
| 0:51.0 | breast cancer and decides to blow up her life and use the time she has left to explore her sexuality. |
| 0:57.6 | Michelle Williams is back on television. |
| 1:00.6 | She won an Emmy for her last TV role on Fossi Burden, which was also an FX series. |
| 1:05.5 | What do we think of dying for sex guys? |
| 1:08.1 | I loved it so much. |
| 1:09.2 | I thought it was, I don't know, maybe the best show I've watched |
| 1:12.4 | this, best new show I've watched this season. Yeah, it's really strong. It's really well acted. I think, |
| 1:17.1 | you know, whenever I hear show based on podcast, I get nervous. But in this case, the podcast that it's |
| 1:22.4 | based on, it was made by the people who Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate play. It's very intimate. It's very |
| 1:28.2 | closely observed. And I think that really serves it well. And yeah, as an acting showcase for |
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