Dying for Sex
You're Killing Me, Ernie
TV Flash files “You're Killing Me, Ernie” as hour 7 of 8 in the TV Flash guide — Dying for Sex (2025) on FX/Hulu, season 1, episode 7, aired 2025-04-04, 36 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E07: listed hour 7 of 8 in the Dying for Sex guide, hour 7 of 8 in season 1. It aired 2025-04-04 (36 min). The listed hour before it is “Happy Holidays” (S01E06). Next is “It's Not That Serious” (S01E08).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Molly has a visitor at the hospital.
Viewer FAQ
Where does You're Killing Me, Ernie sit in the Dying for Sex guide?
S01E07 is listed hour 7 of 8 — hour 7 of 8 in season 1, season 1 episode 7.
When did Dying for Sex S01E07 air?
You're Killing Me, Ernie aired 2025-04-04 and is listed at 36 minutes.
Do I need the podcast first?
No. Meriwether and Rosenstock's limited series has podcast origins, but Williams and Slate carry sex-and-selfhood after recurrence as a complete screen argument.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Michelle Williams turning a terminal diagnosis into a sex-and-selfhood limited series that refuses both weepiness and shock-for-hire. Podcast origins, Jenny Slate as co-pilot, desire without a content-warning bow. Watch for prestige television that lets a dying woman be funny, horny, and specific — not an after-school lesson in bravery.
FX and Hulu booked **eight episodes** of a dying woman who is allowed to be funny, and the awards-season tear ducts were already on the calendar. Dying for Sex, 2025, from Elizabeth Meriwether and Kim Rosenstock and a podcast, stars Michelle Williams as Molly, Jenny Slate as Nikki, Rob Delaney in the orbit. After a cancer recurrence she leaves her marriage to explore sex and selfhood. Terminal diagnosis as television that refuses weepiness and shock-for-hire. Desire without a content-warning bow. Prestige limited…
Filed against
- Michelle Williams as Molly
Michelle Williams’s Jen Lindley talked like a grad seminar on Dawson’s Creek — Capeside triangles, soundtrack crying, WB frankness as a brand — then turned a terminal diagnosis into Dying for Sex’s funny, horny selfhood. Late-1990s face;…
- Jenny Slate as Nikki
Jenny Slate’s Nikki co-pilots Dying for Sex without a content-warning bow — Michelle Williams turning a terminal diagnosis into a sex-and-selfhood limited series, podcast origins, desire that refuses weepiness and shock-for-hire. 2020s…
- Rob Delaney as Neighbor
Rob Delaney’s Rob Norris turned accidental pregnancy into Catastrophe’s filthy, tender Anglo-Irish-American rom-com — short seasons, high joke density, Carrie Fisher’s late-career mom — then entered Dying for Sex’s diagnosis-and-desire…