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Miniseries – It's a Sin

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Ritchie, Colin and Roscoe leave home at 18 to begin new lives in 1981 London, but they find themselves challenged by a virus that most of the world ignores.
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It's a Sin — Miniseries

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Critics Consensus

Propelled by an exquisite cast, empathetic writing, and a distinct visual style, It's a Sin is an incredible feat of small-screen magic.

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Rebecca Mead The New Yorker 12/09/2021
It's a Sin brings back the shock of seeing young men first diminished and demented by an opaque, devastating disease, then treated with barbaric cruelty by an ignorant and bigoted establishment. Go to Full Review Shannon Keating BuzzFeed News 12/09/2021
I was moved to tears more than once while barrelling through It's a Sin in one long, difficult, emotional sitting. Ultimately, however, the show left me a little cold for its over-the-top insistence on queer self-hatred's role in the crisis. Go to Full Review Hugo Rifkind The Times (UK) 12/09/2021
In time, I suppose, It's a Sin will be understood in a trilogy with Queer as Folk and 2015's Cucumber, which all together represent Davies at his most creatively gay. Go to Full Review Richard Trenholm CNET 03/30/2023
Masterfully written and beautifully acted, It's a Sin is essential viewing. Go to Full Review Jason Flatt But Why Tho? 01/23/2023
9/10
It’s a Sin might be the saddest, most difficult, most important piece of television on air right now. It’s a beautiful, brief look at lives lived and unlived. At love in all its forms, good and bad, in the most terrible of times. Go to Full Review David Reddish Queerty 03/13/2022
4/4
It deserves mention alongside Philadelphia, Longtime Companion, How to Survive a Plague, Pose and yes, even Angels in America as one of the greatest works ever about the AIDS epidemic. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Tero H @Tero83 Dec 25 A great gay mini series of HIV and how it changed the world. See more Jules T @RT67878212 03/17/2025 Everything that can be said to praise this insanely brilliant mini series has already been said. It will stay with me forever and is one of the most important pieces of LGBTQIA+ history telling ever to be on television. See more Jordan C @RT37383517 12/06/2024 Amazing. In these hard times it opened my eyes. We must stick together as a community and continue to LAWW!!! See more CHRIS M @cm03878 12/03/2023 A powerful series weaving complex characters. A mix between tender moments of friendship and heartache. See more Dave C @RT09838700 09/04/2022 Beautiful. Character development, story, and (on the whole) acting all make this. The emotion and compassion interwoven are perfectly delivered, keeping the subject and trauma real, and not turning it into something sentimental. I watched in one sitting, and wished there were more episodes! See more jean-bernard m @jbbron 08/28/2022 Cette série qui certes n'est pas un chef d'œuvre porte un message et il provoque des pleurs mêlés à la joie et ça c'est beaucoup. Enfin une bande son qui donne des fourmis dans les pieds See more Read all reviews
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Olly Alexander

Ritchie Tozer

Lydia West

Jill Baxter

Nathaniel Curtis

Ash Mukherjee

Keeley Hawes

Valerie Tozer

Shaun Dooley

Clive Tozer

David Carlyle

Gregory Finch

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Jan 22, 2021 Episode 1 Eighteen-year-olds Ritchie, Roscoe, Colin, Jill, and Ash move to London in 1981, where they chase their dreams and embrace their sexuality, just as news of a mysterious virus emerges. Details Episode 2 Aired Jan 29, 2021 Episode 2 In 1983, Jill becomes increasingly concerned about the fearsome virus that's crept into the friends' collective consciousness; Colin travels to New York for work; Roscoe learns of major family changes. Details Episode 3 Aired Feb 5, 2021 Episode 3 In March 1986, the Pink Palace flat mates are working, loving and finding their way in the world, but when terror strikes, they must fight like never before. Details Episode 4 Aired Feb 12, 2021 Episode 4 In 1988, Jill organizes a protest against the government's handling of AIDS, Ritchie makes a lonely trip home to confront certain truths, and Roscoe makes a statement at an event with his high-profile lover. Details Episode 5 Aired Feb 19, 2021 Episode 5 In 1991, the friends try their best to remain positive and rally through the darkest of days; as Ritchie clings to hope, Jill clashes with his mother, and Roscoe is stunned by a plea for forgiveness. Details

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Season Info

Director
Peter Hoar
Executive Producer
Russell T. Davies
Screenwriter
Russell T. Davies
Network
HBO Max
Rating
TV-MA
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
British English
Release Date
Jan 22, 2021