‘It’s a Sin’ Reframes the Story of the AIDS Crisis

How the HBO Max series wonders what we got wrong about the past

Photo by Maxim Hopman on Unsplash

Over the past decade, one of the richest questions popular culture has asked itself has been “What did we get wrong about the past?” From Ryan Murphy’s revisionist histories The People v. O.J. Simpson and The Assassination of Gianni Versace to Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us, historically oriented television has…