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

anyone watched this brilliant program? so many parallels with the virus

and a fabulous lifestyle

any thoughts?

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By *litterbabeWoman
over a year ago

hiding from cock pics.

I'm really enjoying it, and yes I can see the things it has in common with the situation we are living through the moment.

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

getting trainspotting vibes too. glad you're enjoying it too

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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago

Redhill

Can I ask where this is being shown please?

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

Just binge watched all five episodes. Brilliant and oh so sad.

Strange to think it was only 35 years ago.

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

Channel 4

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By *ankie303Woman
over a year ago

Weirdsville South Coast Dorset

Just watched all 5 episodes, wow!

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

"anyone watched this brilliant program? so many parallels with the virus

and a fabulous lifestyle

any thoughts?

Yup watched the series and lived the reality... really fab drama

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

they said Freddie Laker created it when he created cheap flights... what a line!! speaks volumes about the current situation of our modern world and opinions spouting from it

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By *iss DevilWoman
over a year ago

Bedford

Just finished watching it, I do think it's brilliant, and yes, a lot of similarities to the current situation.

It is also possible to see, by comparing then and now, how fast medicine/drug industry progresses.

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By *achel SmythTV/TS
over a year ago

Farnborough

It’s on my watch list .... I remember back then very well, and the public stark warnings that were given then .... something I think we lack now!

R xx

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

"anyone watched this brilliant program? so many parallels with the virus

and a fabulous lifestyle

any thoughts?

Loved the parallels to what’s happening right now!!

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By *s_bettyboopWoman
over a year ago

-3

It was beautiful and so heartbreaking to watch at the same time.

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

I'm putting it on my watch list

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By *lay2018Couple
over a year ago

westmeath & roscommon.

What's it on

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By *an4funMan
over a year ago

london

"Can I ask where this is being shown please? "

Yes you can

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By *edangel_2013Woman
over a year ago

southend

I have the last episode to watch tonight.

Very emotionally charged and up and down. 1 minute sobbing, the next giggling hysterically.

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By *lex46TV/TS
over a year ago

Near Wells

I'm treating myself one episode a week and really enjoyed the first episode. Enjoying the music and humour.

People who have seen the whole series, please don't tell me what's going on. On another website, people are saying exactly that???

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By *ecretpassion100Couple
over a year ago

Walsall

Beautiful heartbreaking and very powerful

A must watch x

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Really enjoyed its highs and lows.

If it doesn’t get a BAFTA or two I will be very surprised.

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By *iss DevilWoman
over a year ago

Bedford

"What's it on"

Channel 4/All4

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

Forgive my lack of knowledge, but can anyone explain why the AIDS virus initially ravaged the gay community the way it did.

So many straight people were also having unprotected sex in that time, how did it hit the gay community so bad compared to to heterosexuals?

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

watch the program

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By *achel SmythTV/TS
over a year ago

Farnborough

Binge watched 3 episodes last night ... as others have alluded to, very funny and very sad. I guess it highlights many of the prejudices prevalent at that time about both homosexuality and the spread of AIDs.

Answering the question above about why it was so rampant then in the gay community, watch it, but think the answer lies generally in promiscuity, and initially, lack of understanding, and knowledge.. or not wanting to know! Although watch the series, and you will see this wasn’t always the case!!! ... won’t spoil it.

Great series - loving it.

R x

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

2 episodes to go. Brilliant series, the young actors are brilliant and I'm loving the soundtrack.

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By *hiteDiamond1Woman
over a year ago

Sexy Village

I watched all 5 episodes last weekend, was so emotional! Absolutely brilliant writing and acting they deserve all the wins and all the trophies and hold them high to all the beautiful lives lost during the height of the epidemic.

We have come far since then with effective medicine that allows people with H.I.V today to live with the virus U=U Undetectable Untransmittable .

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By *reenworld55Man
over a year ago

dorchester

I agree with all the comments so far, great acting, writing and soundtrack.

One thing I didn't realise at the time was how vulnerable gay people were to being sacked. Such intolerance and it reminded me of what was shown in the equally good, thought-provoking Small Axe series a few weeks ago, about the experiences of the Caribbean community in London in the 70s.

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By *achel SmythTV/TS
over a year ago

Farnborough

One thing it has brought home to me is just how far society has come since those days, and served to remind me just how discriminative life was then. In those days I was completely heterosexual (probably just hadn’t tried the other side!) and as judgemental as the rest back then.

There are still some differences to be tackled (more so in the ‘T’ part of LGBT), but they acceptance is in significantly better than it was, with no need to live in an ‘underground’ parallel society.

R xx

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By *eavenscentitCouple
over a year ago

barnstaple

I haven't watched it yet. I had first hand nursing experience of this. Lots of young men died in tragic circumstances with awful disease effects. All credit to scientific advances in treatments.

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By *eavenscentitCouple
over a year ago

barnstaple

"Forgive my lack of knowledge, but can anyone explain why the AIDS virus initially ravaged the gay community the way it did.

So many straight people were also having unprotected sex in that time, how did it hit the gay community so bad compared to to heterosexuals?

Many gay men "top and bottom", the anus is and, can be more prone to abrasions during anal sex.

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By *achel SmythTV/TS
over a year ago

Farnborough

"Forgive my lack of knowledge, but can anyone explain why the AIDS virus initially ravaged the gay community the way it did.

So many straight people were also having unprotected sex in that time, how did it hit the gay community so bad compared to to heterosexuals?

Also ... whilst not always the case (watch the series), many in the gay community had a blaze and promiscuous approach to sex, kicking back at the convention of monogamy so infected many others without realising the risk.

R xx

Many gay men "top and bottom", the anus is and, can be more prone to abrasions during anal sex. "

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By *oncupiscence73Woman
over a year ago

South

"I agree with all the comments so far, great acting, writing and soundtrack.

This!!! The mortgage company asking all those questions and the school teacher! Shocking

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By *oncupiscence73Woman
over a year ago

South

"Forgive my lack of knowledge, but can anyone explain why the AIDS virus initially ravaged the gay community the way it did.

So many straight people were also having unprotected sex in that time, how did it hit the gay community so bad compared to to heterosexuals?

Also I ‘think’ that condoms were only popularly used to protect against pregnancy in those days so gay men didn’t use them.

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By *armandwet50Couple
over a year ago

Far far away

"anyone watched this brilliant program? so many parallels with the virus

and a fabulous lifestyle

any thoughts?

Fantastic program

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By *achel SmythTV/TS
over a year ago

Farnborough

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By *endulum 20Couple
over a year ago

sandy

really good viewing and relevant to us

my hubbys uncle was big into the gay scene at that time and unfortunately both him and his partner died from aids

they were always the life and sole but it was horrible what they went through in the end

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By *achel SmythTV/TS
over a year ago

Farnborough

"Forgive my lack of knowledge, but can anyone explain why the AIDS virus initially ravaged the gay community the way it did.

So many straight people were also having unprotected sex in that time, how did it hit the gay community so bad compared to to heterosexuals?

Also I ‘think’ that condoms were only popularly used to protect against pregnancy in those days so gay men didn’t use them. "

@qadesh ... just thought about this and you beat me to it!!

Sex education back then focussed on not getting pregnant, and ‘safe sex focussed on nothing more than Gonorrhoea and Syphillis. Homosexuality wasn’t even mentioned back then!!!

Men couldn’t get men pregnant - so where’s the problem!!

R xx

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

It reminds me of my school mate who ultimately ended with aids in the 80’s but is still alive today, even though he’s a little crazy

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

I loved this programme it was brilliant ! Amazing acting and told a wonderful but terribly sad story. I think I sobbed from episode 3 ! People at work were asking me what was wrong as my eyes were still puffy from crying so much

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

On t telly

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

Just finished watching the series.

Very powerful, thought provoking and emotional.

A great watch even though we were both in tears x

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

I watched it and thought it was really powerful and a fairly true reflection of what happened at the time.

In my mid twenties I worked in a gay pub and would often talk to some of the older gay men who would tell me about their experiences when being gay wasn't something that you could openly be proud about and living through the aids epidemic.

I will always remember one guy who told me that his partner had died of Aids in the mid nineties and that he wasn't allowed to go to the funeral as the family had banned him, they had lived together for 8 years and in that time his partners family hadn't contacted him once.

I bawled my eyes out at the scene at the funeral as I thought of that poor man.

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

I watched it this weekend. I cried so much.

It made me even prouder of my son who is living his life true to himself.

It was harrowing to see so many people living in shame and dying alone.

The stigma and the suffering truly broke my heart.

I wish there were more Jills in this world.

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By *urora1912Woman
over a year ago

Norfolk East anglia

Not yet but it's on my list to watch

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By *eavenscentitCouple
over a year ago

barnstaple

It took me back to my days working in a Communicable Disease Unit in London. So many young men admitted with extreme breathing problems, awful open sores and all totally terrified. These were the first wave, only a few drug therapies available.

Later, came women mainly of African origin, pregnant. These poor women were encouraged to have terminations because of their reduced life expectancy and, risk to the unborn child (as it was thought then).

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By *ove2pleaseseukMan
over a year ago

Hastings

"anyone watched this brilliant program? so many parallels with the virus

and a fabulous lifestyle

any thoughts?

Yup watched the series and lived the reality... really fab drama

Lived or live a frend was diagnosed

HIV+ August 2018

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By *audyandMichaelCouple
over a year ago

Leicestershire

"It was beautiful and so heartbreaking to watch at the same time.

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

The best show I’ve ever watched , have now watched it twice , every character is so believable, you laugh and cry as you go through the journey of there life’s , as a gay man I can relate to so much of the program, the bit that hit me the hard , was when the family burned all of hes belongings, my family did the same when I decided to be me and not someone I wasn’t , was given a good kick in by my dad and thrown out then disowned , people were told I had died by my family rather than tell them I was gay , shocking but true , this show has to win awards

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

"I watched it this weekend. I cried so much.

It made me even prouder of my son who is living his life true to himself.

It was harrowing to see so many people living in shame and dying alone.

The stigma and the suffering truly broke my heart.

I wish there were more Jills in this world. "

Everyone needs a Jill, what a beautiful, warm hearted person

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

Sounds interesting. I havent seen a desaster movie/series in ages

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

The actor playing jills mum , is the real life Jill

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

"The actor playing jills mum , is the real life Jill "

Oh really?

I thought it was fiction and just based on attitudes at the time.

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By *xploring_FunWoman
over a year ago

Coventry

"The actor playing jills mum , is the real life Jill

Oh really?

I thought it was fiction and just based on attitudes at the time."

Many bits of it were all taken from people Russell T Davies knew or knew of.

Amazingly the parallels with covid are entirely incidental as it was filmed pre-Covid

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By *iobhan123Woman
over a year ago

Deal

"anyone watched this brilliant program? so many parallels with the virus

and a fabulous lifestyle

any thoughts?

Remember that dreadful time so well, was working in Earls court back then, such a sad and scary time.

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By *ighland gentlemanMan
over a year ago

Ardgay

Watched 2 episodes so far.

Definitely hard hitting.

Bringing back many memories of the era and how unknown HIV was at the time.

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

Watched episode 1 and then had to watch them all in one sitting.

Fantastic series uplifting and heart breaking.

So thankful we have come a long way in terms of attitudes to sexuality since those days.

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

Watched episode 1 and then had to watch them all in one sitting.

Fantastic series uplifting and heart breaking.

So thankful we have come a long way in terms of attitudes to sexuality since those days.

KJ"

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Another fan, just seen episode 2, with the repulsive boss taking the guy to New York and his dismissal on their return. So sad.

There was a good show on BBC4 last night 'Crafticism...' with Jenny Éclair. She visited a centre with some of the Aids victims blankets, that were made to honour those who died. Well worth a watch

. It's just an element of the show but it had good content overall.

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

"The actor playing jills mum , is the real life Jill

Oh really?

I thought it was fiction and just based on attitudes at the time."

There’s quite a bit of historical reference... the court case the lawyer mentioned when breaking the Welsh boy from hospital was a real life young Manchester lad who was treated appallingly.

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

I’ve watched it 3 times now , amazing show

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By *UTTERFLY EVENTSWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

loved it

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By *ancer36Woman
over a year ago

Stirling

Amazing!

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