It's a Sin
Episode 2
TV Flash files “Episode 2” as a desk essential hour — It's a Sin (2021) on Channel 4/Max, season 1, episode 2, aired 2021-01-22, 46 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E02: listed hour 2 of 5 in the It's a Sin guide, hour 2 of 5 in season 1. It aired 2021-01-22 (46 min). The listed hour before it is “Episode 1” (S01E01). Next is “Episode 3” (S01E03).
Essential hour: “Episode 2”. Second hour still letting pleasure lead: Davies refusing marble-statue prestige, the flats and nights remaining the point of the tragedy later.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
As Ritchie and Jill embark on a scheme to become professional actors, Colin is excited to be offered a trip to New York. Roscoe hides his fury when he finds himself excluded from his sister's wedding, while Jill finds herself entering a world of mystery and fear. The stories in the headlines are becoming true, and the shadow of Aids looms, but Ritchie's denial is ferocious and Jill finds herself unable to tell the truth as the situation gets worse.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Episode 2 sit in the It's a Sin guide?
S01E02 is listed hour 2 of 5 — hour 2 of 5 in season 1, season 1 episode 2.
When did It's a Sin S01E02 air?
Episode 2 aired 2021-01-22 and is listed at 46 minutes.
How many episodes?
Five. A limited series: chosen family in 1980s London, joy first, then the epidemic. There is no skippable middle season.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch Russell T Davies's five-episode London AIDS chronicle for ensemble chemistry that makes the tragedy land harder. Joy first, then devastation with open eyes — chosen family in cheap flats and club nights. Davies at full emotional clarity; five episodes you will carry.
The first look is joy: cheap flats, club nights, chosen family in 1980s London lighting that still wants to dance. Russell T Davies's Channel 4 limited series premiered January 22, 2021 — HBO Max in the U.S. — and made Olly Alexander, Nathaniel Curtis, Omari Douglas, Callum Scott Howells, and Lydia West the silhouette of a generation that lived, loved, and then faced the AIDS epidemic together. Five parts. *Joy first, then devastation with open eyes.* The tone refuses misery tourism without blinking at loss.…
Filed against
- Olly Alexander as Ritchie Tozer
Olly Alexander plays Ritchie Tozer on It’s a Sin, Russell T Davies’s 2020s five-episode London AIDS chronicle — joy first, then devastation with open eyes, chosen family in cheap flats and club nights. Ensemble chemistry that makes the…
- Nathaniel Curtis as Ash Mukherjee
Nathaniel Curtis’s Ash Mukherjee helped It’s a Sin’s five-episode London AIDS chronicle land harder — Russell T Davies at full emotional clarity, joy first, then devastation with open eyes, chosen family in cheap flats and club nights. TV…
- Omari Douglas as Roscoe Babatunde
Omari Douglas plays Roscoe Babatunde on It’s a Sin, Davies’s 2020s London AIDS chronicle where ensemble chemistry makes the tragedy land harder. Joy first, cheap flats and club nights, then devastation with open eyes. TV Flash files him…
- Lydia West as Jill Baxter
Lydia West made chosen family look like daylight as Jill Baxter on It's a Sin — Russell T Davies’s five-episode London AIDS chronicle, joy first, then devastation with open eyes, cheap flats and club nights as the set. Ensemble chemistry…