It's a Sin, 9 pm Channel 4, 22nd Jan CONTAINS SPOILERS **titled edited by MNHQ**

[notawittyname1954]

I keep seeing trailers for this. Anyone else looking forward to it?

@Smallgoon

Can we agree that Stephen Fry was awful in this... I cringed whenever he was on screen.

Yeah Stephen Fry seemed a bit surplus to requirements. It's like they shoehorned that storyline in just so they could have someone piss in Thatchers drink.

@Smallgoon

Can we agree that Stephen Fry was awful in this... I cringed whenever he was on screen.

I liked him on QI, but I don’t rate him as an actor.

Stephen Fry is always Stephen Fry no matter who hes playing.

Oh shit

Agree and also as much as I like Neil Patrick Harris his accent in this was really dodgy

I literally agree. Stephen Fry is just Stephen Fry.

I'm trying to work out the year this was set in, did they mention Dianas hospital visits earlier?

ep 1 Sept 81
ep 2 Dec 83
ep 3 Mar 86
ep4 Mar 88
ep 5 Nov91

Diana photo was April 87
They showed tombstone ads though didn't they - I thought they were 87 too but maybe they were showed in 86 after all

showed? shown! Sorry, I'm tired! How are you jellykat? I have to say, I do admire your willpower. I binged a month ago, no self-control whatsoever

Thank you MyFavourite, this episode felt earlier then '86 for some reason.

I'm soo wanting to see what happened next after that episode, but resisting or i'll have bugger all to look forward to on a Friday!

You're welcome - did you just watch episode 4 when he goes back to Isle of Wight and they do the lie-in? That was 88.

@MyFavouriteIsWhoeverlsQuietest

You're welcome - did you just watch episode 4 when he goes back to Isle of Wight and they do the lie-in? That was 88.

No, it was the episode when Ritchie cooks for his family but then heads to the pub to see his straight friend who he used to fancy...

It was episode 4! (thought it was 3) blimey DS1 was born that year!
Noo, that means theres only one episode left.

I was struck by the power of telephones. Nowadays everyone would have a mobile and social media and Ritchie’s mum couldn’t have put up that barrier.

i binged last week but am continuing to watch in real time as well

Tombstone ads were definitely early 87. I remember the government launched this huge campaign and there was a weekend of AIDS related programmes on the Tv. I was 14 and staying the weekend with my friend and we just didn't know what to think. Shortly afterward we had a fun sex education session at school where we got to play with a condom!

Olly Alexander was fab in this. It's true, he did ' jump' off the screen and his smile was infectious! I really believed in the character.

Great article today where 4 guys share their experiences of the 80s. www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-wales-56000480

@HIVpos That was interesting . Thanks for sharing.

50 friends!!!

Im glad the guys interviewed are still with us.

So how long did Richie have Aids for?

Diagnosed 88
Dies 91
Slept with Donald who had KS in 86 who might/might not have given it him.

If HIV is left untreated, it may take up to 10 or 15 years for the immune system to be so severely damaged that it can no longer defend itself. However, the rate at which HIV progresses varies depending on age, general health and background. (THT)

However once you are diagnosed as being in the last stage AIDS rather than HIV on average you have 15 months/in the first wave most could expect to only live 1-2 years after diagnosis.

Ritchie was first tested 86? but didn't get the results. He moved to London 81. It could have been in his system for years before he was officially diagnosed/started to show symptoms and he could have been passing it to others unwittingly in all that time.

Screenshots of the interviews with Keeley Hawes from Woman and Womans Own.

twitter.com/KeeleyHawesNews/status/1358946084706476032?s=20

A couple of years ago I was obsessed with RTD's previous series, Years and Years (still no idea whether the overlap with the name of Olly Alexander's band was coincidental or not!). The central part of the drama in that was Russell Tovey's character's love for a Ukrainian refugee, Viktor. It was frustrating that Viktor's character wasn't more fleshed out- he had very very few lines that weren't about being a refugee or being in love with Russell Tovey's character. It was the same kind of criticism as about Jill in It's A Sin. This is evidently something RTD does - not fully fleshing out pivotal characters; making them symbols rather than people.

For anyone who is interested in the AIDS pandemic and has watched/it's watching Its A Sin, the film version of Larry Kramers play The Normal Heart is on Sky Atlantic tonight at 9pm.

It's a dramatised depiction of the AIDS crisis unfolding in the states, stars Mark Ruffalo, and well worth a watch for a different but still heartbreaking perspective on how events unfolded "across the pond" .

Ooh I would have liked to have seen that. Angels in America is currently available to rent from National Theatre/or subscription and you get Yerma etc too. It has Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett in it.
Not related in any way at all other than it's a gay love story, Simon Amstell's Benjamin has 2 days left on 4 on demand.