"It's a Sin" Episode #1.4 (TV Episode 2021) Poster

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(2021)

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9/10
The big day approaches.
Sleepin_Dragon26 January 2021
We anxiously waited to see if Ritchie gets his test result.

That advert, aired in 1987, it is a chilling watch, it hit hard at the very beginning.

The series has delivered so many highs and lows, it's bizarre, and perhaps you harden to the bad news, you know what's coming, it never stops delivering. Less shock factor in this episode, plenty of story development, and we get some humour back.

Stephen Fry is so good here, I guessed he'd develop more as a character, he seriously has, that scene where the three mature guys are sat having food, each younger lover sat in silence, you can imagine it happening.

Olly Alexander, awards for this? If he doesn't get them, then there's something wrong here, the guy is phenomenal.

It's Russell T Davies, so of course there's a Doctor Who reference, a recreation of Peter Davison's Resurrection of The Daleks.

Great music, what an era that was for uplifting, classic tracks.

Lighter than episode three, it needed to be, but equally as good. 9/10.
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9/10
Mrs T. drinks coffee
xmasdaybaby196623 January 2021
Another strong storyline with a little less action and more story. Stephen Fry steals the show by just playing himself. Great humour and drama with a strong message. A moving end. "You can't touch me. I'm bleeding!"
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10/10
Fantastic episode
rents-1987812 February 2021
Very hard hitting episode as the rest. As others have said olly is fantastic in this series.
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7/10
Episode 4
Prismark1019 March 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This is the episode where Ritchie has to face up to his diagnosis of HIV. He knows he has it and he has also tried some quack remedies.

Ritchie goes back to see his parents but is unable to tell them of his diagnosis. Telling his friends is also difficult for him.

Ritchie is so hemmed in. As an actor he also does not want to be seen publicly campaigning against Section 28.

RTD captures the era of the late 1980s. Rising house prices, the rise of the Tory voting home owning generation. Ritchie is now one of them.

He and Jill have got a mortgage and bought the Pink Palace. A shrewd move.

Ritchie getting a part in Doctor Who and the appearance of the Daleks was a nod to the late actor Dursley McLinden who died of Aids at the age of 30.

I actually went to the same school as Dursley. Until 1992 homosexuality was still illegal in the Isle of Man.

Young gay men like Dursley were not going to hang around the island in the 1980s. The stigma of getting caught was unbearable for some people.

When I was younger I knew of a family whose son committed suicide after being caught shoplifting. It was only some years later I found out the real reason. He had been caught in a hotel room with another man.

There were stories of some doctor's surgeries on the island that would have colour coded chairs in the waiting rooms. Two purple chairs for people with infectious diseases. So if you saw a man sitting on a purple chair, you knew what was wrong with him.

Maybe RTD should have had Ritchie hailing from the Isle of Man, it might had added more resonance to the story, especially with Ritchie's reluctance to tell his parents about his sexuality.
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