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HBO Maxâs British drama relives the horrors of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
(Photograph courtesy of Ben Blackall/HBO Max) Olly Alexander as Ritchie Tozer and Lydia West as Jill Baxter in It s a Sin.
  | Feb. 14, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
The five-part HBO Max drama âItâs a Sinâ takes viewers back to the early days of the AIDS crisis, and itâs absolutely shattering. Set mainly in London from 1981 to â91, it follows a group of young, gay men and a close female friend as the disease spreads and the death toll rises.
by Paul Whitelaw February 13 2021, 10.45am
This week, Paul Whitelaw previews the final episode of the ground-breaking It’s a Sin and he finds Paul Merton’s tour of Scotland’s lochs rather more engaging than the raft of other travel-based programmes.
It’s a Sin – Channel 4, Friday, 9pm
Over the last five weeks, I’ve taken the unprecedented and frankly maverick step of choosing the same show as my highlight of the week. That’s because nothing has come close to It’s a Sin, the Russell T. Davies-penned drama about a group of friends dealing with the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. And now it comes to an end. Ritchie (Olly Alexander) is seriously ill at home on the Isle of Wight. His formidable mother (a strikingly layered turn from Keeley Hawes) struggles to cope with her pain, anger and confusion. A near-continuous shot through the corridors and wards of a hospital where patients are dying of AIDS is breath-taking.
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Russell T. Davies returns with a decade-spanning, London-set drama about AIDS on HBO Max, co-starring Neil Patrick Harris.
They came from everywhere, like pilgrims alighting on a holy site. Teenagers left their homes in London, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Wight off the southern coast of England, not realizing they were headed toward the same destination: a dive bar where they would discover the other members of their tribe, who they were certain existed despite perhaps never having met one before. They didn’t sound like one another or wear the same kinds of clothes, and the class and cultural gaps between them were sometimes vast. But they all worshipped, in their own ways, at the altar of freedom the freedom to be who they were for the first time in their lives.