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What Is the Inner Life of Jill Baxter on ‘It’s a Sin’?
It s a Sin.
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Note: The following contains some spoilers to the TV series It’s a Sin.
In my longtime survivor–heavy social-media world, everyone is talking about
It’s a Sin, screenwriter and producer Russell T. Davies’ five-episode HBO Max saga of a young gay friends group upended by the AIDS epidemic in London between 1981 and 1991. And the verdicts are all over the place.
To some, it’s painful, triggering unwanted PTSD. To others, it’s cathartic, triggering grief, rage, and tears bottled up for years. It rightfully identifies societal homophobia as triggering the shame that helped fuel the epidemic or it overemphasizes the shame (rather than the external homophobia), thereby reinforcing it. Its characters act and react in ways that don’t feel plausible in the view of people who lived through those years or its characters behave in ways that feel perf ....

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