It’s a Sin, from British TV mastermind Russell T. Davies (Queer as Folk, Years and Years), features the hallmarks of life in the early 2020s.
But the exquisite new series takes place 40 years ago, as HIV disrupts a group of young Londoners and death haunts the pubs, flats, and dance clubs that once offered them freedom and community.“We stopped shooting It’s a Sin on the last day of January [2020] and [the United Kingdom] went into lockdown on March 23,” Davies tells Plus.
The bizarre timing is “fascinating and annoying and enlightening and exasperating,” he says. “At my age, 57, to hear people talk about the first great virus of their lives is really annoying when there’s clearly been another.