As a gay man the same age as the cohort in It’s a Sin, I have to say the series shook me to the core. It brought back memories I had long suppressed, feelings I had long suppressed. Davies got the day-to-day existence of it all so right.

In fact, the sort of oblivious horror-show element of it wrenched me back emotionally into a time I really didn’t want to explore again.

When one of the characters examined himself in a mirror looking for KS lesions, I had such a powerful flashback I had to turn the television off for a while. Somehow I had completely forgotten I used to do the same thing.

I think this is the first cinematographic treatment of the era that paints such an accurate, immersive picture. 120 BPM is excellent, and I even speak French, but somehow it doesn’t seem quite as vividly true to the daily lived experience of AIDS and HIV.

I can’t say I enjoyed It’s A Sin. I did not, and I may never watch it again, but I’m thrilled that it exists and I’m thrilled about what Davies achieved.