‘It’s A Sin’ Coming To HBO Max in February: WATCH
January 26, 2021
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HBO Max debuted the official trailer and key art today for the new Max Original, It’s A Sin.
All five episodes of the limited series debut Thursday, February 18 on HBO Max.
Come for the party, stay for the love! A joyful tribute to lives that burned bright in 1980s London.
It’s A Sin premieres February 18 on HBO Max. #ItsASin pic.twitter.com/ouHN9FQmX2— HBO Max (@hbomax) January 25, 2021
The new series from Queer As Folk creator Russell T. Davies is about a group of gay friends living in London in 1981, unaware that the AIDS epidemic is about to shatter and upend their lives. “
Ritchie (Olly Alexander), Roscoe (Omari Douglas) and Colin (Callum Scott Howells) are young lads, strangers at first, leaving home at 18 and heading off to London with hope and ambition and joy… and walking straight into a virus that most of the world ignores. Year by year, episode by episode, crossing the whole decade, their lives change as the mystery of that illness starts as a rumor, then a threat, then a terror, and then something that binds them together in the fight.”
Vulture says of the series: A group of teenagers moves to London in pursuit of sexual freedom and then the epidemic hits. It’s a Sin, the new British miniseries from Russell T. Davies — of Years and Years and the original U.K. Queer As Folk — blends the sort of 1980s nostalgia that’s all too common on TV today with the reality of the AIDS crisis.
The five-episode miniseries recently debuted on Channel 4 in the U.K. and is coming to HBO Max (home of many a goodBritish import) all at once on February 18. Already hailed with rave reviews across the pond, It’s a Sin stars Olly Alexander as Ritchie, who moves in with a group of young gay lads, played by Omari Douglas, Callum Scott Howells, and Nathaniel Curtis, and their female best friend, played by Lydia West. The rest of the cast includes Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Fry, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Shaun Dooley, and the great Keeley Hawes. Cue up the Pet Shop Boys and start dancing or weeping, or probably both.
Watch the trailer below.
