Queer as Folk creator Russell T. Davies shook viewers to the core with the dystopian HBO series Years and Years a few years ago.
Now his five-part series It’s a Sin, premiering on HBO Max later this month, turns back the clock to follow a group of queer friends in London beginning at the start of the AIDS epidemic.
In a chilling new trailer for the series, one of the characters, Ritchie (Olly Alexander), concludes he doesn’t believe that AIDS exists after listing dozens of conspiracy theories and the misinformation about what was happening to so many gay and bisexual men at the time.“It’s a racket, it’s a money-making schema for drugs companies,” Ritchie says.“Do you seriously think there's an illness that kills only gay men?