It's a Sin
Episode 3
TV Flash files “Episode 3” as a desk essential hour — It's a Sin (2021) on Channel 4/Max, season 1, episode 3, aired 2021-01-22, 47 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E03: listed hour 3 of 5 in the It's a Sin guide, hour 3 of 5 in season 1. It aired 2021-01-22 (47 min). The listed hour before it is “Episode 2” (S01E02). Next is “Episode 4” (S01E04).
Essential hour: “Episode 3”. Mid-run hour where the crisis can no longer be a rumor: still chosen family, still open eyes, still Channel 4 craft without a sermon overlay.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
While making their way in the world, the terror the friends been avoiding suddenly strikes at their heart in the most unexpected manner. Reeling from the news, everyone has to rally round. And when a hospital takes shocking action, the flatmates must fight like never before.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Episode 3 sit in the It's a Sin guide?
S01E03 is listed hour 3 of 5 — hour 3 of 5 in season 1, season 1 episode 3.
When did It's a Sin S01E03 air?
Episode 3 aired 2021-01-22 and is listed at 47 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…