Angels in America
Directed by Mike Nichols and written by Pulitzer-winning playwright Tony Kushner, this Emmy-winning four-part film, starring Emma Thompson, Meryl Streep, Al Pacino and more, chronicles the stories behind AIDS diagnoses in New York City.
- 2003-2003
- 1 season
- HBO
- Drama, Fantasy
- TV-MA
Directed by Mike Nichols and written by Pulitzer-winning playwright Tony Kushner, this Emmy-winning four-part film, starring Emma Thompson, Meryl Streep, Al Pacino and more, chronicles the stories behind AIDS diagnoses in New York City.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2003
Episode 1
Millennium Approaches: Bad News
Sun, Dec 7, 2003 56 mins
Louis abandons a hospitalized Prior; Joe and Roy confide in each other over drinks. Later, Prior hears voices from his hospital bed while Louis solicits sex from strangers, and Joe makes a drunken confession to his mother.
Episode 2
Millennium Approaches: In Vitro
Sun, Dec 7, 2003 56 mins
Cohn is diagnosed with AIDS. He pushes Joe to take the job in Washington so he can help Cohn keep his job. Prior becomes more sick and goes to the hospital, Louis can't handle being there for him so he leaves him. Joe comes out to his mother and wife as being a homosexual.
Episode 3
Millennium Approaches: The Messenger
Sun, Dec 7, 2003 57 mins
Cohn tells Joe how he was responsible for having the Rosenbergs - an American couple suspected of being Soviet espionage agents - executed. Fantasy begins to seep into reality when, soon after, a dead Ethel Rosenberg appears to Cohn and as classic retribution, making fun of his slow death.
Episode 4
Perestroika: Stop Moving!
Sun, Dec 14, 2003 57 mins
Louis, having forsaken his dying lover, Prior, returns to his apartment with the married lawyer, Joe, in tow. Cohn's doctor admits him to the hospital. Once there, Cohn meets Nurse Norman "Belize" Arriaga - a drag queen who also happens to be Prior's good friend.
Episode 5
Perestroika: Beyond Nelly
Sun, Dec 14, 2003 63 mins
Joe's mother, Hannah Pitt, has come all the way from Utah to see her son, who revealed the truth to her in a phone call days earlier. Having gotten lost in the homeless person riddled streets of the Bronx, she finally arrives at the Mormon Visitors' Center.
Episode 6
Perestroika: Heaven, I'm in Heaven
Sun, Dec 14, 2003 64 mins
A fight with Joe leaves Louis badly scarred; Roy plays a final practical joke on Ethel; Prior wrestles the Angel and then addresses a review board in Heaven; Harper heads out West; Prior, outliving his diagnosis, pays a visit to his favorite angel and vows to keep living--free of secrets.
