‘It’s a Sin’ review: Russell T Davies paints a moving take on the AIDS epidemic

The series looks at the agony and ecstasy of growing up in a rigidly-compartmentalised world that does not look kindly at anyone or anything that marches to a different drum

The deeply moving and gripping mini-series, It’s a Sin brings alive the love, laughter and tears of gay people coming of age in the 1980s. Ritchie Tozer (Olly Alexander) is his family’s pride and joy in the Isle of Wight. When he turns 18 in 1981, he comes to London to study law but soon decides to follow his dreams of becoming an actor and quits studying law. Jill (Lydia West), from Surrey, shares his dreams of becoming an actor.

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Roscoe (Omari Douglas) decides to leave his home in Peckham, when he learns of his pastor father’s decision to take him back to Nigeria to “cure” him of his homosexuality. Colin (Callum Scott Howells) is a quiet boy from Wales, who moves to London to work as an assistant at Culver& Hound on Saville Row. Ash Mukherjee (Nathaniel Curtis) studies drama at the university. The young people’s lives converge as they rent a flat, The Pink Palace.