‘It’s a Sin’ Review: Russell T. Davies’ Remarkable AIDS Drama Is Essential Viewing

Rebellion, joy, sex, and panic define the days and ways of a group of young gay men in 1980s London in Russell T.

Davies’ marvelous British miniseries “It’s a Sin,” now streaming in full on HBO Max.

The five-episode drama opens a compassionate window — gilded by a top-to-toe perfectly cast ensemble — onto lives touched and destroyed by the encroaching AIDS epidemic of the period even as its characters try to live freely out of their respective closets.

As a vital television document about AIDS and the hard-earned freedoms that were crushed on human and systemic terms — and as purely just a piece of masterful writing and acting — “It’s a Sin” is right up there with Tony Kushner’s epic “Angels in America” as must-see queer viewing.

It’s capable at once of breaking your heart, putting it back, then breaking it all over again.Transplanting his dazzling showmanship as

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