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‘It’s a Sin’ — and at just the right time

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Last weekend, following that ice storm, I binged Russell T. Davies’s new five-part miniseries, “It’s a Sin,” from England’s Channel 4 and now available for streaming on HBO Max.

I meant to ration it out, one episode a day, five days. But a fireplace, take out, and some comforting blankets made that impossible.

And I know what some of you might be thinking. It happens when I talk about a new movie, or novel, or whatever fictionalized account of the AIDS crisis that has come along. “I can’t do AIDS right now,” I’ll hear. “That’s just too much for me.”  And I can completely understand.

Any story of AIDS you pick up, especially one that begins in 1981 as “It’s a Sin” does, you know that whatever characters you fall in love with, the chances of

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