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It Starts On The Page (Limited): Read ‘Dying For Sex’ Episode 1 Script “Good Value Diet Soda” By Kim Rosenstock & Elizabeth Meriwether
'Dying For Sex' EP Kim Rosenstock talks about writing Episode 1 "Good Value Diet Soda." Part of a franchise featuring scripts of top Emmy contenders.
In the show’s opening episode “Good Value Diet Soda,” written by Rosenstock from a story by her and Meriwether and directed by Shannon Murphy, Molly is navigating the complex emotions of a woman finding clarity during an earth-shattering moment. Here is the script for “Good Value Diet Soda” with an intro by Rosenstock, in which she speaks of the challenge she and Meriwether faced getting viewers to look past the basic premise of a 40-year-old woman with a terminal cancer, which they tackled by leaning “into the reality of the situation” and using humor. And yet, right from the start we are asking the audience to get on board with a grim reality: Molly, a 40-year-old woman who is in a lackluster marriage and hasn’t done much with her life, receives a devastating diagnosis: she has stage four metastatic breast cancer.
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