It's a Sin: Season 1

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Channel 4 | HBO Max | Season Premiere 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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Daniel D'Addario

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. Read full review

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Judy Berman

Feb 19, 2021

It’s a Sin—which is easily the best season of TV I’ve watched so far this year—gets the big, emotional moments and moral arguments right. Read full review

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Michael Phillips

Feb 26, 2021

The show is about people, not positions, but it’s about people who learn the price of taking a position, a stand, as well as people who pay the higher price of not doing so. All this without cant and speechifying. Plus it’s really funny and truly moving. Bravo. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Feb 19, 2021

“It’s a Sin” is essentially a radiant coming-of-age story balanced with the sense that the party could end sooner than later. It's an often potent mix between that sense of feeling totally alive amongst your friends, especially at such an independent age, with the gravity of an epidemic that they don’t understand, that they aren’t informed about. Read full review

Darren Franich

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. Read full review

Alan Sepinwall

Feb 16, 2021

Tragedies in theory shouldn’t be much fun, but with It’s a Sin, the parts that will make you smile are at least as important, if not more so, as the ones that will make you cry. Read full review

Richard Lawson

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. Read full review

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matthewmirliani

Feb 20, 2021

A heartbreaking, but necessary watch, and a loving tribute to a lost generation. While it effortlessly balances the darkness with lighter moments (delivered by an absolutely flawless cast), the mini-series progresses similar to that of a horror film, as we watch the insidious illness makeA heartbreaking, but necessary watch, and a loving tribute to a lost generation. While it effortlessly balances the darkness with lighter moments (delivered by an absolutely flawless cast), the mini-series progresses similar to that of a horror film, as we watch the insidious illness make its mark. The creators handle the heaviness of the topic with care, and allow us to truly step into the lives of the fully-fleshed characters who we truly come to care for.… Expand

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puna

Feb 18, 2021

Another classic by creator Russell T Davies. A must see mini-series that you'll never forget.

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gizzmose10

Feb 22, 2021

An instant classic. Capturing both the exuberance of youth and the tragedy of the AIDS epidemic through the eyes of a group of friends over a decade. Superb.

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jooaoviictor

Feb 23, 2021

This show will break your heart. The characters and their relationships are so precious. I found the acting great. It’s easy to see where the storyline is going but it is important for young people that didn’t live through these times to hear the stories. This mini series deserves to be seenThis show will break your heart. The characters and their relationships are so precious. I found the acting great. It’s easy to see where the storyline is going but it is important for young people that didn’t live through these times to hear the stories. This mini series deserves to be seen by so many more people.… Expand

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Mike_Medeiros

Feb 18, 2021

Nunca chorei tanto com uma série igual foi com essa, vai muito além de falar sobre a AIDS, passa uma mensagem muito linda sobre amizade e família.

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CathodeRay

Feb 18, 2021

I am normally pretty allergic to hyperbole, but having watched this whole series twice, I honestly think it might go down as one of the best pieces of TV drama ever made. It's everything that you would hope TV would be - passionate, surprising, angry, clever, funny, and just unbelievablyI am normally pretty allergic to hyperbole, but having watched this whole series twice, I honestly think it might go down as one of the best pieces of TV drama ever made. It's everything that you would hope TV would be - passionate, surprising, angry, clever, funny, and just unbelievably moving. The portrayal of 80s Britain (in which I was a teenager) is so on the money, it makes you realise how lazy most 80s set drama is. This is surely Russell T Davies's masterpiece. It's been an enormous critical and cultural hit in the UK, I really hope it does the same in the US. It deserves to be seen by as wide an audience as possible. Those poor boys and their bright lives cut so short. What a testament to them all this is.… Expand

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shoeletariat

Feb 19, 2021

This show emotionally ruined me. Like I may actually need therapy. It's a masterpiece. Anyone who has been affected by HIV is obligated to watch, the best retrospective on the crisis that we're likely to ever get.

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Season 1

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  Air Date: February 18, 2021
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