It’s a Sin reactions: Critics hail ‘poignant masterpiece’ as Graham Norton calls series ‘the best five hours of TV I’ve seen in years’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Russell T Davies’s new Channel 4 drama It’s a Sin has received an overwhelmingly positive reception from fans and critics, who are hailing it as a “poignant masterpiece”. However, The Independent’s TV critic Ed Cumming observed in his four-star review that “It’s a Sin feels especially personal”. The Guardian’s review observed that the series takes on “a special resonance” during the pandemic: “We can empathise that bit more with the fear, uncertainty and responses rational and irrational to the emergence of a new disease… We can also identify with endless, mindless joys coming to a painful halt, the jostling within oneself of reason and unreason – and perhaps in episodes to come, the wrestling with woefully inadequate and incompetent government responses to a proliferating crisis.” On Twitter, TV host and author Graham Norton wrote: “The best five hours of television I’ve seen in years. Soundtrack epic but most of all it’s about the genius and compassion of @russelldavies63.” DJ and producer Jodie Harsh tweeted: “Between Pose, Veneno, Drag Race and It’s A Sin, we are living in the golden age of LGBTQ+ television.