About a group of friends in the eighties, and the gradual realisation that AIDS is a reality, this is weirdly timely in that health workers don't know what they're dealing with, think it's infectious (thus masks and distancing all over the place). The friends are Olly Alexander, Lydia West, Omari Douglas, Callum Scott Howells, Nathaniel Curtis, and Neil Ashton; with Keeley Hawes and Shaun Dooley, Tracy Ann Oberman, Neil Patrick Harris (especially good as queer London tailor) and Stephen Fry. Plus an outstanding cameo from Ruth Sheen as another victim's Mum.
Immediately gripping, in the way Mrs. America isn't. Thought I'd be a quivering wreck at the end - I was, not having guessed who the bad guy would turn out to be. Really good cast, very moving story.
Does that great trick of pulling the sound out at a key moment in the finale.
Photographed by David Katznelson, edited by Sarah Brewerton (lots of TV).
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