It's a Sin
It's the eighties. It's a Sin is released by the pop group Pet Shop Boys, released in 1987. But this is about more. Much more . This is about the new LGBT series It's a Sin that will be released from January 2021 on various television and streaming channels. (also on NPO and RTBF later).
It is a British television drama written by Russell T Davies (also known for the series Queer as Folk).
This 5-part miniseries is set in the period 1981 and 1991 in London. Well-known actors here are Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) and Olly Alexander (Years & Years).
The miniseries follows a group of 5 friends in their later teens and early twenties. They move to London in 1981 to occupy a flat there together.
The black boy Roscoe runs away from home when he learns his father wants to take him back to Nigeria.
Ritchie Tozer, who has not yet gone out to his parents, chases his dreams of becoming an actor with his friend Jill. Colin begins a sales internship with a Savile Row tailor, where he befriends Henry Coltrane.
But their fun, carefree life is turned upside down by the first news reports about a gay disease, AIDS that is emerging and was seen as a laugh in the beginning.
Things get really serious when afterwards their friend and his partner mysteriously get sick and die of a rare cancer and then their emotions run high.
Withdrawals started in 2019 and stopped in January 2020, just before the outbreak of the Corona crisis. This miniseries was shot mainly in Birmingham. The scenes do portray London's vibrant gay scene from the eighties. Any resemblance to the current Coronapadenemia is purely coincidental.
To see at https://www.channel4.com/ in some locations.
It is a new British television drama written by Russell T Davies and shot mainly in Birmingham to play out all the scenes in London's vibrant gay scene. This 5-part miniseries was set from 1981 and 1991 in London. And anyone who knows this period will already know the main subject of this mini-series: The rise of GRID and later known as AIDS.
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