Russell T. Davies, creator of "It’s a sin": "The silence of the 1980s on HIV was terrifying"

Prolific screenwriter (“queer as folk”, “Doctor Who”, “Years and Years”…), he returns with a mini-series on the beginnings of AIDS in London, to see on Canal+.Twenty years after his beginnings, the Welshman felt ready to face his own ghosts ...

It may be the series that best captures the dangers of our time.In the staggering Years and Years (2019), Russell T.Davies featured the upset future of an English family, between the rise of populism, migration crisis and economic chaos ... but the tremendous acuity of the 57 -year -old Welsh screenwriter and producer is not new.In 2005, he gave a serious boost to the legendary Doctor Who, an extravagant space-time traveler and inconsistent legend of the small British screen.And in 1999, he simply revolutionized the TV series, by staging without taboo the life of the gay community of Manchester in Queer AS Folk.Since then, he has continued to highlight the LGBTQ+ minorities.After the Cucumber, Banana, Tofu (2015) series, trilogy with documentary accents devoted to different generations of homosexuals, he returns today with IT's A Sin, broadcast on Canal+, the history of young provincials landed in London at the start of1980s and faced with the AIDS epidemic.A semi-autobiographical story, tragic, but, as always in Davies, overflowing with a formidable thirst for living.