'It's a Sin' on HBO Max shows an utterly devastating view of AIDS in 1980s London
Skip to main content 'It's a Sin' on HBO Max shows an utterly devastating view of AIDS in 1980s London Peter-Astrid Kane FacebookTwitterEmail Lydia West as Jill Baxter and Nathaniel Curtis as Ash Mukherjee in "It's a Sin" on HBO Max.Ben Blackall/HBO Max “La!” Sung cheerfully, that one syllable occurs again and again in HBO Max’s "It’s a Sin" as a marker of group identity. Set in London in 1981 (but filmed in Manchester), the show stars a group of gay men and their straight den mother who utter "la" to one another in every possible context. It's Liverpool slang, but sun-spoken in their...