I've been reading a lot of articles at work about it, since there has been a lot of discussion of how outdated the portrayal is of someone living with AIDS. For example, the drug routine has changed completely. There was an interesting article in Poz about how the producers discussed incorporating some of those changes into the script and decided against it. Also there has been some discussion about whether or not Rent glamorizes living with AIDS and how accurate the depiction was for the mid '90s/