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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 ...

  • 2021
  • TV-MA
  • Channel 4
  • 2021
  • TV-MA
  • Channel 4

It's a Sin

Season 1 Premiere: Jan 22, 2021
Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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91
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 97 User Ratings
8.3
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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 ...

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Universal Acclaim Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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100
Dec 3, 2021
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.
By Kasia Delgado FULL REVIEW
100
Feb 22, 2021
It is a series intimately in conversation with life and death, with the possibility of youth and the injustice of quashed potential. It is celebratory of the LGBTQ community, unabashedly sexy and fun, but moving and somber when it needs to be. And it's certainly not a sin.
By Kelly Lawler FULL REVIEW
100
Feb 18, 2021
The series demonstrates once again Davies’ masterful control of tone, shifting in five episodes from joy to the harder-won pleasures of solidarity in the face of crisis to — finally — tragedy. ... Davies has once again made great and painful art about time’s passage, and has earned the attention of anyone who wants to learn more about what the 1980s were like for gay people — or wants to connect, deeply, with a raw and rounded humanity in all its beauty, complexity, and fleeting joy.
By Daniel D'Addario FULL REVIEW
95
Feb 16, 2021
“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.
By Rob Owen FULL REVIEW
83
Feb 17, 2021
After the joy-to-horror onslaught of the first three episodes, the latter parts struggle to balance big speeches with one absolutely ridiculous (if quite cheeky) bit of anti-Thatcherite rebellion. ... At its best, though, It's a Sin brings a unique mix of poignant enthusiasm and simmering sorrow to its tale.
By Darren Franich FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 12, 2021
“It’s a Sin” is an intimate period ensemble drama about families of choice that’s in league with some of the better evocations of the dawning of AIDS in the gay community, including “Parting Glances” (with Steve Buscemi) in 1986 and “Longtime Companion” in 1989.
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 18, 2021
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.
By Richard Lawson FULL REVIEW

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Universal Acclaim Based on 97 User Ratings
8.3
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Production Company:
  • Red Production Company
Initial Release Date: Jan 22, 2021
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards

BAFTA Awards
• 2 Wins & 12 Nominations
Royal Television Society, UK
• 6 Wins & 9 Nominations
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations

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