Real, heart-warming and full of absurdities
Eight-part series 'Dying for Sex' has poignancy as well as humour
13 April 2025 - 00:00
If you’re of a certain generation you might think you’ve heard this story before. Two women, lifelong best friends, must face their biggest challenge when one of them is diagnosed with terminal cancer. But this isn’t 1988, the two women aren’t Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey and the journey they’re about to take isn't the one in Beaches, the weepy melodrama that’s made generations of women — and their embarrassed male partners — reach for the tissues and shed rivers of tears as the credits roll to Midler singing The Glory of Love...
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