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By *parklesue OP   TV/TS
over a year ago

Middleton

Has anyone watched this it scared the living daylights out of me x

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By *he AmbassadorMan
over a year ago

IRLANDA. / Prague. / Cil Dara


"Has anyone watched this it scared the living daylights out of me x"
nope

What is it about and where is it on???

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Has anyone watched this it scared the living daylights out of me x"

I’ve watched it and it was amazing. Channel 4 catch up. 5 episodes. Well worth the watch. Not sure what scared you about it. We all know the risks of unprotected sex these days !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Aww loved it the music too but very sad emotional but so true now all have risks.

Had to binge watch it ch4

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I watched it, and it was beautiful.

It’s not there to scare you. It’s there for you to remember the awful times that people went through whilst government actively sought to punish and discriminate the communities that were fighting against it.

HIV now is nothing like how it was when It’s A Sin was set. These days, HIV is absolutely treatable and manageable. If you think you have been exposed you can take post exposure prophylaxis, like the morning after pill, to make sure that the infection doesn’t take hold. You can take pre-exposure prophylaxis to make sure you never get exposed. And if you are already HIV+, you can take one pill a day for your medication to suppress the virus so much that you cannot pass it on to anyone. An undetectable viral load = an untransmissable virus, and you can lead a normal, healthy life without the fear of passing it on.

Don’t be scared of HIV, be scared of discrimination and hatred.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I loved it

La

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By *edheadsruleCouple
over a year ago

lancashire

Oh but Colin though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I watched it, and it was beautiful.

It’s not there to scare you. It’s there for you to remember the awful times that people went through whilst government actively sought to punish and discriminate the communities that were fighting against it.

HIV now is nothing like how it was when It’s A Sin was set. These days, HIV is absolutely treatable and manageable. If you think you have been exposed you can take post exposure prophylaxis, like the morning after pill, to make sure that the infection doesn’t take hold. You can take pre-exposure prophylaxis to make sure you never get exposed. And if you are already HIV+, you can take one pill a day for your medication to suppress the virus so much that you cannot pass it on to anyone. An undetectable viral load = an untransmissable virus, and you can lead a normal, healthy life without the fear of passing it on.

Don’t be scared of HIV, be scared of discrimination and hatred."

I take my hat off to this post. I always wondered what Prep referred to. Nicely done chap.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was a kid in the 80s..we were all terrified of dying of AIDS or a nuclear bomb

It's a great series +soundtrack

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By *ldbluMan
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

Great programme

Make's you realise how bad people were treated at the time due to people's ignorance

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By *parklesue OP   TV/TS
over a year ago

Middleton

It scared me because I could have been one of them x in the eighties it was a case of if it moved shag it and condoms were very rarely used x now I’m different I won’t ever have unprotected sex and am considering going on prep once the clinics reopen x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I tried it but the thing when they say laa put me off

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By *anderer4youMan
over a year ago

knutsford


"I was a kid in the 80s..we were all terrified of dying of AIDS or a nuclear bomb

It's a great series +soundtrack "

Totally agree,found the first episode a bit graphic and nearly put me off

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

LA!

Well worth a watch. But in many ways the timing of Chanel 4 showing it is totally relatable to today’s pandemic

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I thought the way the 80's was presented was excellent- from the personalities down to tiny little details in the set design.

People's attitudes in that time were so ignorant it's terrifying.

The 20yr olds of today would be disgusted at the content of even mainstream TV then.

We have come a long way.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I tried it but the thing when they say laa put me off"

Erm

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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria


"I thought the way the 80's was presented was excellent- from the personalities down to tiny little details in the set design.

People's attitudes in that time were so ignorant it's terrifying.

The 20yr olds of today would be disgusted at the content of even mainstream TV then.

We have come a long way.

"

Totally agree with you, we have come a long way since then.

There were scenes that had me laughing but I just knew it would be heartbreaking and I’d end up sobbing.

Brilliantly presented and acted all throughout, very emotional though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I tried it but the thing when they say laa put me off

Erm "

It just grated my nerves and I found the main female character just so annoying that she spoiled it for me,would rather watch pride

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I tried it but the thing when they say laa put me off

Erm

It just grated my nerves and I found the main female character just so annoying that she spoiled it for me,would rather watch pride"

‘La!’ Was a reference to coded speech, such as Polari. It was a light-hearted attempt to express the fact that gay people had to live in secrecy and shame on a day-to-day basis, but when they were with their friends and people who loved them, they could be as camp and as gay as they wanted to. ‘La!’ Said in a high pitched voice is super gay, and amongst friends, they weren’t scared to be themselves, so they said it as often as they could. It was a sense of solidarity and togetherness.

How could you not like Jill? She was the rock of the group. She was the one who was standing up for her boys. The odds of her catching HIV were low, but ironically, she was affected the most because of it. She had to see so many of her friends die, and she took on the problems of everyone, as her own. She was a formidable character.

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By *inky Biscuit DunkerMan
over a year ago

Gloucestershire

I came in here expecting there to be some Domino Dancing going on

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By *urls and DressesWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere near here

A brilliant show, I cried so much, made worse by chatting to a friend whilst watching it who lived with the hatred and fear in the 80s as a gay person, he said it felt very accurate.

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By *ablo minibar123Woman
over a year ago

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"Has anyone watched this it scared the living daylights out of me x"

I have watched it and thought it was very well acted, and yes it scared me too. People being locked in rooms and being treated like animals, by people who are meant to help them. Feels like a different world not just 40 years ago.

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By *ilverjagMan
over a year ago

swansea

Go back to the beginning of the last century, and they locked you up for being gay. I wouldn't have thought that wasn't a particularly harsh sentence unless they had been sent to a women's prison.

They should put up a statue to the person who initiated having same sex relationships decriminalised, if for nothing other than the savings he or she made for the state in board and lodgings.

I can vaguely remember as a kid John Hurt playing the role of Quinton Crisp in a T.V. series called, The Naked civil servant. What that man had to endure was criminal in itself. Prejudices of the 1980s were nothing like they were then.

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials


"I tried it but the thing when they say laa put me off

Erm

It just grated my nerves and I found the main female character just so annoying that she spoiled it for me,would rather watch pride

‘La!’ Was a reference to coded speech, such as Polari. It was a light-hearted attempt to express the fact that gay people had to live in secrecy and shame on a day-to-day basis, but when they were with their friends and people who loved them, they could be as camp and as gay as they wanted to. ‘La!’ Said in a high pitched voice is super gay, and amongst friends, they weren’t scared to be themselves, so they said it as often as they could. It was a sense of solidarity and togetherness.

How could you not like Jill? She was the rock of the group. She was the one who was standing up for her boys. The odds of her catching HIV were low, but ironically, she was affected the most because of it. She had to see so many of her friends die, and she took on the problems of everyone, as her own. She was a formidable character."

I love that the real Jill played Jill’s mum.

I binge watched all 5 episodes & cried. A lot. It was fantastic, well written, brilliantly acted & all the actors were genuinely gay.

J x

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

A truly superb series; quite probably Russell T Davies’ best yet in fact

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I watched it & thought it was brilliant! I even cried in the end it’s emosh

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