Rent It's a Sin (2021)

4.2 of 5 from 107 ratings
3h 52min
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Synopsis:
It's 1981, the start of a new decade and Ritchie (Olly Alexander), Roscoe (Omari Douglas) and Colin (Callum Scott Howells) begin a new life in London. Strangers at first, these young gay lads, and their best friend Jill (Lydia West), find themselves thrown together, and soon share each other's adventures. But a new virus is on the rise, and soon their lives will be tested in ways they never imagined. As the decade passes, and they grow up in the shadow of AIDS, they're determined to live and love more fiercely than ever.
Actors:
, Nathaniel Curtis, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , David Gregan-Jones, ,
Directors:
Producers:
Phil Collinson
Creators:
Russell T. Davies
Writers:
Russell T. Davies
Studio:
Dazzler Media
Genres:
British TV, TV Comedies, TV Dramas
Collections:
Getting to Know: Tilda Swinton
BBFC:
Release Date:
22/02/2021
Run Time:
232 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
Disc 1:
This disc includes episodes 1 - 3
Disc 2:
This disc includes episodes 4 - 5
BBFC:
Release Date:
22/02/2021
Run Time:
232 minutes
Languages:
English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, English LPCM Stereo
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Disc 1:
This disc includes episodes 1 - 3
Disc 2:
This disc includes episodes 4 - 5

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Reviews (1) of It's a Sin

Cartoon-character Fantasy 1980s gay drama about HIV/AIDS, spoilt by pc woke posturing - It's a Sin review by PV

Spoiler Alert
15/02/2021

This could have been good. It could have been accurate. It could have focused on HIV/AIDS in the 80s as many remember it.

Instead it chooses, like most UK TV drama now, to go full woke. SO it's all about race here with a diverse multiculti cast which is simply NOT realistic for 1981 - or now, with very few black/Asian out gay men.

Worse, but typical of TV drama now, every single white male - straight white males - is presented as a thick ignorant buffoon at best, and quite often as nasty, evil, bigoted monsters. SO that racism and sexism is OK then? It is pure bigotry - unpleasant, unnecessary and deeply hypocritical (because the drama purports to want tolerance and no racism/sexism and prejudice against people because of their sexuality). This modern trend is vile yet present in so much TV drama, many movies and sadly too many books including children's books. It really is vile.

The lazy Welsh stereotypes irked too. Yes, because in the 1980s all Welsh people were ignorant bumpkins who lived on eating faggots and peas and Welsh cakes. For goodness sake. Watch the movie 'Pride' so see how it should be done - though that falls back on lazy valleys stereotypes.

It's all very cartoony and shriek-y and drama school flamboyant (believe it or not there are many gay men who do not behave like this). That's fine, as it goes, but I find it increasingly tiresome - like watching a local stage school musical with all those keen moisturised young faces yell-scream-singing at you, in the business of SHOW.

There's a great TV drama to be made about the 1980s HIV/AIDS issue and the life of gay men then. This is not it.

Two stars because it is 'good in parts'. In fact one and a half stars rounded up. The ever-irritating Stephen Fry loses another half point.

3 out of 6 members found this review helpful.

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