“The official history of the world says that men like us have always been hidden away in secret, but then there’s the real world where we’ve been living, together, for all this time.”
In a dinner table scene, Neil Patrick Harris summarises It’s A Sin in a sentence, a brand new five-part series from Channel 4 and streaming on HBO Max. Set in London amid the AIDS epidemic in the '80s, the show hinges around five friends living together over a decade, from 1981 to 1991.
Written by Queer as Folk creator Russell T. Davies (also responsible for the resurrection of Doctor Who) and directed by Peter Hoar, It’s a Sin begins in 1981, the same year as the first reported case of AIDS in the UK (although some reports say 1979). Davies based the show on his own experiences and those of his friends, and wanted to create a tribute to the men who died during the epidemic, many of whom have been erased from history or simply reported as statistics and numbers, not real people with real lives, loves, friends, careers, and dreams. Read more...
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