It's A Sin

[pensnest]

To my surprise, my sister recommended to me the Channel 4 series It's A Sin. Yes, the one with an incredible number of cute boys having sex with one another.

We just finished watching it, and I still have tears. It's a heartrending show about young men in the '80s, gay and free and happy in London, and at first, taking no notice of this weird stuff about Americans dying of some disease that only affects Homosexuals. And maybe Haitians and Haemophiliacs.

My sis said it really reminded her of 'how it was' back then. I got married in 1983 and started to reproduce not very long afterwards, so it wasn't my world, but my sister didn't settle down until the 1990s. And her flatmate, while she lived in London in the '80s, was a nurse in an AIDS ward (a thing I had not known).

It's a short series, only five episodes, and yes, it's heartrending. Watch it, if you haven't. Still on Catch-up. Well, you probably have—I'm the one who's always late getting to this stuff.

Comments

[word_geek]

I found the sidelining of Jill really frustrating. I wish they had been able to round out the character

[turps]

I agree.

I enjoyed her character but I wanted to know so much more about her. Even a nod to her own love life or interests outside of campaigning and the theatre would have been good.

[pensnest]

I could imagine that if Jill wanted a boyfriend, she'd find the straight blokes mighty hard work. Gotta fight off those octopus hands, put up with all the football talk, and they wouldn't be nearly as up on the personal grooming as the pretty gay boys.... hmm.

It would have been nice to see more of her, but I think it would have been ideal to see a bit more of all the characters - at least we got to see Jill's parents.