It's A Sin - Channel 4

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Such a beautiful series and wonderful acting of complex characters. I found it hard to warm to Ritchie and found him very self-centred but his friendship with Jill was everything.

Colin’s decline was distressing to watch. I thought it was powerful how his ‘relationship’ with the son of his landlady was portrayed, very ambiguous as to whether he was consenting. His friendship with Mr Coltrane and his partner was also so lovely, I wasn’t expecting NPH’s role to be so brief!

Keeley Hawes was incredible as Ritchie’s mum and also such a complicated mess of things... she loved her son but didn’t really know him, so what she thought was best for him wasn’t. She wanted to spite Jill for keeping the truth from her but couldn’t see that really she was spiting Ritchie. I so thought that his sister lurking in the background was going to find a way to get her mum away and Jill and Roscoe in!

The music... SO GOOD. I binged it all and now going back taking my time.
 
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Bingewatched the whole lot on 4OD.
made me cry in places. The characters were so well written and what an amazing performance by all the actors. I was a teenager when all the leaflets and tv adverts came out and I remembered being genuinely frightened. Ignorance isn’t bliss.
Tracy Ann Oberman telling Richie that so many boys were going home and she didn’t want him to go home, so bloody sad. Knowing what a lot of those boys were going home to - families that didn’t understand them or AIDS itself.
Russell T Davies is outstanding.
 
Yea but did Mrs Thatcher drink any of Roscoe's special tea though, or did Stephen Fry get there in time to stop her :ROFLMAO:

As well as the ambiguity over whether Colin consented to his encounters with the guy in the house he was lodging in (to me it looked like he maybe didn't fully consent, but was lost in the naivety of moving away from home etc to know what to do so he went along with it), I thought that moment with Stephen Fry saying he wasn't gay but every so often needed to be down in the dirt in order to lift his head up or however exactly he charmingly put it - was thought provoking as well.

The face on poor Jill when Ritchie's nasty mum said what she did by the sea front in episode 5 ... superb acting (by both of them) and also superb camera direction to refocus perfectly and catch it. There was the other moment when Ritchie's parents arrived at the hospital and first learned the truth of what he was suffering ... the camera very subtly refocussed from the mum to the dad indicating how they were both taking slightly different lengths of time to take things in and react. Again brilliant attention to detail and a pleasure to watch.

Also not sure if I missed something, after all every little tiny detail in this seemed to mean something, such as the tailor's shop boss being caught cottaging - but how/why did Colin's landlady turn up at the hospital?
 
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kev1974 said:
Yea but did Mrs Thatcher drink any of Roscoe's special tea though, or did Stephen Fry get there in time to stop her :ROFLMAO:

As well as the ambiguity over whether Colin consented to his encounters with the guy in the house he was lodging in (to me it looked like he maybe didn't fully consent, but was lost in the naivety of moving away from home etc to know what to do so he went along with it), I thought that moment with Stephen Fry saying he wasn't gay but every so often needed to be down in the dirt in order to lift his head up or however exactly he charmingly put it - was thought provoking as well.

Also not sure if I missed something, after all every little tiny detail in this seemed to mean something, such as the tailor's shop boss being caught cottaging - but how/why did Colin's landlady turn up at the hospital?
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To visit her son who had given it to Colin
 
kev1974 said:
Yea but did Mrs Thatcher drink any of Roscoe's special tea though, or did Stephen Fry get there in time to stop her :ROFLMAO:

As well as the ambiguity over whether Colin consented to his encounters with the guy in the house he was lodging in (to me it looked like he maybe didn't fully consent, but was lost in the naivety of moving away from home etc to know what to do so he went along with it), I thought that moment with Stephen Fry saying he wasn't gay but every so often needed to be down in the dirt in order to lift his head up or however exactly he charmingly put it - was thought provoking as well.

Also not sure if I missed something, after all every little tiny detail in this seemed to mean something, such as the tailor's shop boss being caught cottaging - but how/why did Colin's landlady turn up at the hospital?
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Her son was also ill - she was seen saying ‘he’s not one of them’ or something to that effect so he had aids too and was dying the same time as Colin
 
Woolmercardington said:
I did get the impression Colin consented. In the flashbacks, he was pretty much tipping a wink to the son about how he stays in on Thursdays when the landlady and her husband would be at their cinema club.
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I think it was consentual, howver i dont think there was any desire/lust/love on the part of the landladys son. He got involved purely for his own gratification and i suppose thats what got me. Colin had only been sexually active with one person. Reading between the lines yer man was closeted and in denial and took it out of Colin. There was no affection, come to think of it i dont think they ever kissed on screen?!
 
Mooordgirl said:
I think it was consentual, howver i dont think there was any desire/lust/love on the part of the landladys son. He got involved purely for his own gratification and i suppose thats what got me. Colin had only been sexually active with one person. Reading between the lines yer man was closeted and in denial and took it out of Colin. There was no affection, come to think of it i dont think they ever kissed on screen?!
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No just a forceful blowie and sex while he was calling him a dirty faggot 😞 broke my heart as you could tell Colin wanted to have sex with him by the way he was checking when the parents would be out but it hurts my heart that the football shirt guy was his only experience which didn’t really reflect how sex should be! Poor Colin

Tiredbones said:
He came back to London after the solicitor got involved. I'd imagine all aids patients were kept pretty contained in certain hospitals
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Aaah this makes sense
 
Tiredbones said:
He came back to London after the solicitor got involved. I'd imagine all aids patients were kept pretty contained in certain hospitals
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The staff knew them by name when they were visiting and the nurse even encouraged Jill to visit their other friends as it would ‘probably be for the last time’. All this familiarity seemed that they were all nursed in the same hospital Colin, Ritchie and then Marcus. I think it’s easy for us to forget that these young men weren’t nursed in open wards with other patients. They were in contagious disease wards. East to forget that people wouldn’t even use the same bathrooms as homosexuals at that time. I think it was Gloria that said he’d be sacked for being gay never mind having AIDS. So I’d think they nursed as many together as possible.
 
There are still specialist HIV wards in London, which are now more about specialist treatment rather than containing the virus. Because of the effectiveness of HIV treatment these days they aren't always needed and cancer patients may use the beds (based on what a friend told me who worked on one).

I felt sorry for Keeley Hawes even though she was so awful at the end. Very good writing and acting.
 
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