10 Most Emotional Moments In It's A Sin

It's when we reach episode three of the show that we really start to feel the impact of AIDS on our group of friends, and it is of course poor, innocent and naïve Colin who is the first of the main characters to succumb to the disease. He's the one that we just didn't see contracting the virus (no-one, including the audience, even had any idea he'd been with another man up to that point) and it's yet another reminder of how the disease didn't discriminate with members of the LGBT community at all - it didn't matter if you'd slept with one person or a thousand, you were at risk.

There's a number of moments that could be chosen highlighting Colin's awful experience, but the first is his quarantine in a Welsh hospital after he frightens the doctors with his diagnosis. It's a horrifying moment when his devastated mother is told she can't go near her son, made even more brutal by Colin's own distress at effectively being locked up.

This scene also parallels Colin's own experience at seeing his former mentor Henry locked up in episode one, and very few people won't have reached for the tissues at this point with the realisation that this poor lad is set to go through the same, painful ordeal.