Warning: contains spoilers for the It’s a Sin finale
Five-part 1980s-set AIDS drama It’s a Sin would have been three hours longer if creator Russell T Davies had his way. Speaking at Damian Barr’s Literary Salon, as reported by the Huffington Post, the screenwriter confirmed that there were originally plans for eight instalments, another housemate with their own story, and a final episode that would have revisited the characters in the present day.
Given the opportunity, Davies says he would have shown Lydia West’s Jill in her mid-50s going to visit an elderly Valerie Tozer (Keeley Hawes), the mother to Olly Alexander’s lead Ritchie.
It’s hard to imagine a final confrontation between Jill and Valerie more memorable than the one Davies gave us in the actual finale. The pair meet on a bleak English coastline, where Valerie has been nursing son Ritchie through...
Five-part 1980s-set AIDS drama It’s a Sin would have been three hours longer if creator Russell T Davies had his way. Speaking at Damian Barr’s Literary Salon, as reported by the Huffington Post, the screenwriter confirmed that there were originally plans for eight instalments, another housemate with their own story, and a final episode that would have revisited the characters in the present day.
Given the opportunity, Davies says he would have shown Lydia West’s Jill in her mid-50s going to visit an elderly Valerie Tozer (Keeley Hawes), the mother to Olly Alexander’s lead Ritchie.
It’s hard to imagine a final confrontation between Jill and Valerie more memorable than the one Davies gave us in the actual finale. The pair meet on a bleak English coastline, where Valerie has been nursing son Ritchie through...
- 3/2/2021
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