It's a Sin

Name: It's a Sin
Genre: Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
Released: February 18, 2021
Rating: 91

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Channel 4 | HBO Max | Release Date: February 18, 2021

Summary: The five-part miniseries written and created by Russell T Davies is set in the early 1980s where five friends (Olly Alexander, Omari Douglas, Callum Scott Howells, Lydia West and Nathaniel Curtis) move to London and find their lives forever changed by HIV/AIDS.

[Premiered originally in the UK on Channel 4 on 22 Jan 2021 and in the US onThe five-part miniseries written and created by Russell T Davies is set in the early 1980s where five friends (Olly Alexander, Omari Douglas, Callum Scott Howells, Lydia West and Nathaniel Curtis) move to London and find their lives forever changed by HIV/AIDS.

[Premiered originally in the UK on Channel 4 on 22 Jan 2021 and in the US on HBO Max on 18 Feb 2021]… Expand

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

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S1:E5. Episode 05
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100

IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio

Feb 18, 2021

Season 1 Review: As a vital television document about AIDS and the hard-earned freedoms that were crushed on human and systemic terms — and as purely just a piece of masterful writing and acting — “It’s a Sin” is right up there with Tony Kushner’s epic “Angels in America” as must-see queer viewing. It’s capable at once of breaking your heart, putting it back, then breaking it all over again. Read full review

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Keith Uhlich

Feb 26, 2021

Season 1 Review: Alexander and West, especially, are gifted climactic arias brimming with heart-rending poignance and righteous clarity. Still, there’s something about It’s a Sin that feels summative, as if this is the work that Davies has been building to since he broke out of his own creative closet over two decades ago. And we’re all the richer for his effort. Read full review

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i Kasia Delgado

Dec 3, 2021

Season 1 Review: Set to 80s classics from Pet Shop Boys, Bronski Beat, Culture Club and Erasure, It’s a Sin was a perfect weave of joy and sorrow, and one of the most affecting TV shows I imagine we’ll watch this year. Read full review

Rob Owen

Feb 16, 2021

Season 1 Review: “It’s a Sin” offers one of the most honest, moving takes on the AIDS crisis and in its final episode delivers a searing critique of the shame that ensured the disease’s spread. Read full review

Inkoo Kang

Feb 10, 2021

Season 1 Review: The cast’s performances are uniformly terrific, with Alexander and West in particular embodying the youthful radiance the virus slowly steals from its victims. It’s a Sin remembers how brightly, and how briefly, they lived. Read full review

Alex Abad-Santos

Feb 18, 2021

Season 1 Review: It’s a Sin isn’t trying to jolt a reaction out of its audience the way The Normal Heart urgently needed to. For better or worse, the miniseries is sweeter and more sentimental. It’s not asking for action or apology, but for humanity to remember the joy that all the Ritchies, Roscoes, and Colins brought to this world, and to never let it be erased. Read full review

Richard Lawson

Feb 18, 2021

Season 1 Review: It’s a Sin is best when it avoids such didactic point-making, when it has yet to issue any grave conclusions. As Ritchie and the gang simply try to live their lives—generous, selfish, scared, awed, horny, in love—the series affords them the roundness denied them by aggregate assessment. Read full review

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Yaquian

Mar 19, 2021

Olly Alexander es increible interpretando su personaje. Cada uno de los episodios es entretenido, rápida, divertidad, dura ME ENCANTÓ. Y ni hablar del soundtrack

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puna

Feb 22, 2021

This was devastating yet joyful. we need more queer stories. we need more AIDS stories from the 80s and 90s. AIDS is the pandemic of 50 million + lives lost that is still raging.

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: February 18, 2021
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  S1:E5. Episode 05
  Air Date: November 30, -0001