Wow, I mean I understand you’re trying to be supportive and all that, and I appreciate it. But I’m just kind of slack-jawed at your impression that there was anything humorous about It’s a Sin. I found it intensely and deadly serious.

As a gay man approaching 60 who lost more friends to AIDS than I can bear to think about, watching It’s a Sin was enormously difficult for me.

Frankly, it was so realistic and so well done I spent most of my time watching it in great pain. I’m afraid to say I got very drunk after the last two episodes, just to self-medicate after having been plunged back into such a tragic period of time.

I just don’t understand how humor could be any part of that. I certainly didn’t see any humor in what was being portrayed on the screen.