Russell T. Davies’ miniseries “It’s a Sin” has been a critically acclaimed hit across the pond, but it’s finally premiering in its U.S. home on Thursday, February 18. The newest HBO Max original is a coming-of-age story about a group of friends living in 1980s London at the height of the AIDS crisis — and the horrors they will experience (along with the highs of young adulthood) as the virus takes its toll over the course of a decade. Don’t have a subscription to HBO Max? You can sign up for one here. For $14.99 per month you’ll get access to “It’s a Sin,” plus every single 2021 Warner Bros. theatrical release (including “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “In the Heights,” “Dune,” “The Matrix 4,” and other box office tentpoles), the entire HBO catalog (that long-overdue “Sopranos” binge is just a few clicks away), “Friends,” and plenty more TV and film powerhouses. If you sign up before March 1 and pre-pay for six months, you can save more than 20% off the monthly price — it’s just $69.99 for six months with this soon-to-expire deal.
All five episodes of “It’s a Sin” will premiere on February 18. The series, which is set in 1981, follows young friends Ritchie (Olly Alexander), Roscoe (Omari Douglas), and Colin (Callum Scott Howells) as they leave their homes and head for the excitement of London — and walk straight into a health crisis that most of the world ignores. The episodes will span a decade as their lives change — as do those of their friends and families and the lovers who cross their paths. It is, according to HBO Max, “a series that remembers the boys we lost, and celebrates those lives that burned so brightly.” “There has been this great release of memories and joy. It‘s been bottled up because the deaths were so horrible. It‘s a cruel illness, opportunistic and vile. Sometimes the deaths were so awful that a silence settled over us,” he wrote in a column. HBO Max is also home to other groundbreaking LGBTQ series like Spanish import “Veneno,” another coming-of-age story. This one follows the parallel stories of trans icon and TV star Cristina Ortiz Rodríguez, a.k.a. “La Veneno,” and budding journalist Valeria Vegas, a young trans woman who learns more about her own identity as she tells the story of her idol. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.
