That s not to say that we couldn t do a direct pickup and you wouldn t see it, but I think more often than not in television, you tend to see this massive change in a character, from one season to the next. And in reality, it s only been like two months. How did they change that much in two months? Jumping two to four years ahead allows us to then really show the way that these characters have evolved, Canals elaborated.
As it happens, the Big Apple s ground zero standing during the HIV AIDS epidemic also came into play. The other thing is that New York City, where I was born and raised, is also, in many ways, an unspoken character on the show. So a lot of what was happening in New York at the time, and a lot of what was happening for the LGBTQ+ community, is also critically important in the story that we re telling.
It s a Sin creator Russell T Davies has opened up about his original ideas for a planned sixth episode of the Channel 4 drama.
The writer, whose AIDS-focused series has drawn huge acclaim since it premiered last month, originally envisioned the show as eight episodes long, though in the end condensed it into five – something he had to fight for after being offered four.
Speaking with legendary AIDS activist Ruth Coker Burks as part of Damian Barr s Literary Salon, Davis has now opened up about the further plot ideas he had planned, including another character and a time jump that would have followed an older Jill Baxter (Lydia West).
It s a Sin concluded on
Friday night (February 19) after five episodes which showed the devastating effects of the HIV-AIDS crisis on the LGBTQ+ community.
The heartbreaking episode saw Olly Alexander s Ritchie Tozer in the early 90s, after being diagnosed with AIDS and struggling with various health complications due to the disease.
His friends Jill (Lydia West), Roscoe (Omari Douglas) and Ash (Nathaniel Curtis) cared for him at home in London but his parents were both unaware of his illness. Ben BlackallChannel 4
But when he was taken to hospital, Ritchie s parents (Keeley Hawes and Shaun Dooley) unexpectedly came to visit him and struggled to accept their son s diagnosis.