It’s A Sin

IT’S A SIN (all episodes on HBO Max) is by far my favorite show of the year so far. Yes I know it’s only two months into 2021, but in my defense, I watch a lot of TV. Russell T Davies’ (QUEER AS FOLK, A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL) latest show is a five-part miniseries about the AIDS crisis in 1980s London. It puts the audience directly into the perspective of five beautifully imperfect friends and asks us to imagine: What if you had to watch as your chosen family dies of a mysterious disease—a disease dismissed by media and science, a disease that you are publicly shamed for, a disease associated with who and how you love? At its core, the show tells a “coming-of-age” story, an unabashedly joyful celebration of these characters, the lives they did live, and the lives many of them would have kept living under different circumstances. Plus, it benefits from indelible casting and writing, with an absolute wallop of a final episode. WATCH WATCH WATCH. 

—Neil Krishnan, Creative Executive