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Its your fault, Jill tells Ritchies mother Valerie (Keeley Hawes).
The wards are full of men who think they deserve it.
I brought this on myself; its my fault.
Ritchie and Colin are white; Roscoe and Jill are Black.
Im not going to do that.
In spite of my frustrations with the series,Its a Sinis very much worth watching.
Douglas, Howells, Alexander, and West are all fantastic.
But its a show about young gay people and the AIDS epidemic.
Some of them are going to die.
It has to to fully emphasize how sad and cruel everything is.
The characters who survive become corollary players, necessary background voices of mourning for those whove been lost.
But its a choice that mistakes well-intentioned sidelining for grace.
But its also worth highlighting the things inIts a Sinthat succeed where this one part falters.
The show is painfully great at depicting terror and willing blindness in the early 80s.
The idea that AIDS is a New York crisis becomes a shield and a huge problem in London.
Yes, theres a cloud over it all.
Even later, when things start to get really bad, the series insists on returning to that idea.
AIDS is not a moral judgment, and the horror of it does not make their joy something evil.
Its what saves the series for me.
But it does let them share in the joyful parts.
Its not enough, but its not nothing.
