Premiered 22 January 2021
An unknown virus, misinformation and uncertainty about the future. No, we’re not talking about coronavirus for once.
It’s a Sin, a new five-part miniseries on Channel 4, delicately tackles the HIV and AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, with the backdrop of queer London.
Created by Russell T Davies, who was also behind the 1999 series
Queer as Folk, the show chronicles the lives of three gay men who set off from their hometowns to begin new lives at university. A seemingly light set-up, the story takes a turn for the worse as a deadly new virus is on the rise.