Itâs a Sin: Stan series explores HIV/AIDS crisis through sex, grief and joy
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The characters begin the series brimming with desire, potential and hope; over the five episodes, the HIV/AIDS epidemic encroaches on their lives slowly but surely.
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Stan here) was created by Welsh screenwriter Russell T Davies, a legend of British TV who broke new ground with Manchester-set series Queer as Folk (2000-2005), rebooted
Doctor Who in 2005, and was behind the critically-acclaimed Hugh Grant-led BBC comedy
A Very English Scandal (2018).
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