Series · 2003
Angels in America
The messenger has arrived.
The series
God has abandoned Heaven. It's 1985: the Reagans are in the White House and Death swings the scythe of AIDS. In Manhattan, Prior Walter tells Louis, his lover of four years, he's ill; Louis leaves but as disease and loneliness ravage Prior, guilt invades Louis. Joe Pitt, a Mormon Republican attorney, is pushed by right-wing fixer Roy Cohn toward a job at the Justice Department. Pitt and Cohn are closeted: Pitt, out of shame and religious turmoil; Cohn, to preserve his power and access. Pitt's wife Harper is strung out on Valium, aching to escape a sexless marriage. An angel invites Prior to be a prophet in death.
Episodes
Season 1 · 6 episodes · 2003
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Episode 17 Dec 20031h 6m
Millennium Approaches: Bad News
7.4 / 10
Prior Walter is diagnosed with AIDS that changes his life and he must deal with such new obstacle. Moreover, his partner abandoned him. He has also increasing hallucinations and Mormon's mother comes to New York in order to save her son's …
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Episode 27 Dec 200355m
Millennium Approaches: In Vitro
8.0 / 10
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.
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Episode 37 Dec 200358m
Millennium Approaches: The Messenger
7.4 / 10
Prior returns home and is visited by a pair of spectral namesake ancestors who herald the arrival of the messenger; a tussle with Joe leaves Roy with the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg. Later, Joe and Louis hook up in Central Park while Prior me…
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Episode 414 Dec 200357m
Perestroika: Stop Moving!
7.6 / 10
The story continues with Prior finally confronting the visions, Cohn desperately trying to manipulate the system to his benefit - all the while haunted by one of his victims, and Harper attempting to regain control of her life.
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Episode 514 Dec 20031h 3m
Perestroika: Beyond Nelly
6.1 / 10
Louis arranges a meeting with Prior; Joe visits Roy in the hospital and gets an unwelcome father's blessing; Prior drags Belize to the courthouse for a surprise meeting with the clerk and later strikes up a friendship with Hannah. High on …
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Episode 614 Dec 20031h 16m
Perestroika: Heaven, I'm in Heaven
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 favori…
Cast
Al Pacino
Roy Cohn
Justin Kirk
Prior Walter / Leatherman in the Park
Ben Shenkman
Louis Ironson / The Angel Oceania
Mary-Louise Parker
Harper Pitt
Meryl Streep
Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia
Jeffrey Wright
Norman 'Belize' Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa
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