Cancer isn’t funny. Erotic kinks are often smirked at in movies and television, almost never portrayed with humor that also respects what participants get out of them.

“Dying for Sex,” then, is a f—king miracle.

To call the FX/Hulu limited series a sitcom would be to diminish the healing positivity it lavishes on both title subjects. Yet laugh-out-loud comedic it consistently is. Poignant and adorable too. Empowering if that’s what you want from it, but not insistent in that regard.

Any tears the show will bring are eminently earned. And there’s a good chance it’ll get you hot.

Michelle Williams and Jay Duplass in “Dying for Sex.” (Sarah Shatz/FX)

Adapted from Nikki Boyer’s Wondery podcast about her best friend Molly Kochan’s final months, the show is overseen by the “New Girl” brain trust of Kim Rosenstock and Elizabeth Meriwether. The latter also created “The Dropout,...