Home > Angels in America > Season 1 « TV Series Page Angels in America: Season 1 (2003) Episode List All Critics | Top Critics TOMATOMETER 92% Average Rating: 9.5/10 Season Reviews: 24 Fresh: 22 Rotten: 2 Critics Consensus: In Angels in America, writer Tony Kushner and director Mike Nichols imaginatively and artistically deliver heavy, vital subject matter, colorfully imparted by a stellar cast. 93% Average Rating: 10.0/10 Season Reviews: 16 Fresh: 15 Rotten: 1 Critics Consensus: No consensus yet. Critic Consensus: In Angels in America, writer Tony Kushner and director Mike Nichols imaginatively and artistically deliver heavy, vital subject matter, colorfully imparted by a stellar cast. AUDIENCE SCORE 95% liked it Average Rating: 4.5/5 User Ratings: 137 ADD YOUR RATING - NOT INTERESTED + WANT TO SEE Share on Facebook Post Want to See Not Interested Add Rating My Rating × Want to See Not Interested Post Share on Facebook Episodes 1 Millennium Approaches: Bad News Air date: Dec 8, 2003 A powerful lawyer receives difficult news from his doctor (James Cromwell); a Mormon couple adjusts to life in New York City; a scion of a wealthy family copes with an illness. Roy: Al Pacino. Joe: Patrick Wilson. Louis: Ben Shenkman. More 2 Millennium Approaches: In Vitro Air date: Dec 9, 2003 A man struggles with his partner's illness; a distraught Mormon housewife (Mary-Louise Parker) copes with her husband's strange behavior. Joe: Patrick Wilson. Louis: Ben Shenkman. More 3 Millennium Approaches: The Messenger Air date: Dec 10, 2003 A Mormon couple reach a crossroads in their marriage; a lawyer encounters a face from his past; a patient (Justin Kirk) is warned of an impending arrival. Harper: Mary-Louise Parker. Belize: Jeffrey Wright. More 4 Perestroika: Stop Moving! Air date: Dec 15, 2003 Prior is confused by his fantastic encounter with an angel (Emma Thompson); Joe feels liberated by a new relationship; Roy Cohn is hospitalized as his condition worsens. Harper: Mary-Louise Parker. Louis: Ben Shenkman. Belize: Jeffrey Wright. Directed by Mike Nichols. More 5 Perestroika: Beyond Nelly Air date: Dec 16, 2003 Roy pulls strings to obtain an extremely rare prescription; Louis (Ben Shenkman) is overcome with guilt for leaving his lover; Hannah befriends Prior in his time of need. Prior: Justin Kirk. Hannah: Meryl Streep. Belize: Jeffrey Wright. Directed by Mike Nichols. More 6 Perestroika: Heaven, I'm in Heaven Air date: Dec 17, 2003 Belize (Jeffrey Wright) seizes an opportunity to help others in need; Harper makes a decision about her future; Prior fights for his life at the gates of heaven. Harper: Mary-Louise Parker. Hannah: Meryl Streep. Joe: Patrick Wilson. Directed by Mike Nichols. More Tv Season Info Genre: Drama Network: HBO Premiere Date: Dec 8, 2003 Cast Meryl Streep as Hannah Pitt Emma Thompson as Angel Al Pacino as Roy Cohn Jeffrey Wright as Belize Mary-Louise Parker as Harper Pitt Patrick Wilson as Joe Pitt Justin Kirk as Prior Walter Ben Shenkman as Louis Ironson James Cromwell as Henry Michael Gambon as Prior No. 1 Simon Callow as Prior No. 2 Show More Cast Episodes 1 Millennium Approaches: Bad News Air date: Dec 8, 2003 A powerful lawyer receives difficult news from his doctor (James Cromwell); a Mormon couple adjusts to life in New York City; a scion of a wealthy family copes with an illness. Roy: Al Pacino. Joe: Patrick Wilson. Louis: Ben Shenkman. More 2 Millennium Approaches: In Vitro Air date: Dec 9, 2003 A man struggles with his partner's illness; a distraught Mormon housewife (Mary-Louise Parker) copes with her husband's strange behavior. Joe: Patrick Wilson. Louis: Ben Shenkman. More 3 Millennium Approaches: The Messenger Air date: Dec 10, 2003 A Mormon couple reach a crossroads in their marriage; a lawyer encounters a face from his past; a patient (Justin Kirk) is warned of an impending arrival. Harper: Mary-Louise Parker. Belize: Jeffrey Wright. More 4 Perestroika: Stop Moving! Air date: Dec 15, 2003 Prior is confused by his fantastic encounter with an angel (Emma Thompson); Joe feels liberated by a new relationship; Roy Cohn is hospitalized as his condition worsens. Harper: Mary-Louise Parker. Louis: Ben Shenkman. Belize: Jeffrey Wright. Directed by Mike Nichols. More 5 Perestroika: Beyond Nelly Air date: Dec 16, 2003 Roy pulls strings to obtain an extremely rare prescription; Louis (Ben Shenkman) is overcome with guilt for leaving his lover; Hannah befriends Prior in his time of need. Prior: Justin Kirk. Hannah: Meryl Streep. Belize: Jeffrey Wright. Directed by Mike Nichols. More 6 Perestroika: Heaven, I'm in Heaven Air date: Dec 17, 2003 Belize (Jeffrey Wright) seizes an opportunity to help others in need; Harper makes a decision about her future; Prior fights for his life at the gates of heaven. Harper: Mary-Louise Parker. Hannah: Meryl Streep. Joe: Patrick Wilson. Directed by Mike Nichols. More Critic Reviews for Angels in America Season 1 All Critics (24) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (2) Under director Nichols, Angels in America receives its definitive treatment and emerges as a vivid but exhausting experience. The great revelation is the cast, which proves there's no special effect equal to heartfelt acting. Aug 26, 2014 | Full Review… Hal Boedeker Orlando Sentinel Top Critic Note-perfectly written for the screen by its playwright, Tony Kushner, the adaptation is as trenchant, poetic, fantastical, and moving as its source -- with the added thrill of an up-close cinematic approach. Aug 22, 2014 | Full Review… Matthew Gilbert Boston Globe Top Critic Ultimately... the real problem is that Angels is and remains a play, not a movie. Aug 22, 2014 | Full Review… Dale Peck Slate Top Critic Meryl Streep gave the performance of the year in any medium with her flawless disappearing act into (among others) a tenacious Mormon matron, a wily (male) rabbi, and the wry and vengeful specter of Ethel Rosenberg. Jul 2, 2018 | Full Review… Joyce Millman Boston Phoenix I find the series far too pretentious and posturing; it forces itself on the viewer, and doesn't cease until the final credits role. Sep 2, 2014 | Full Review… Simon Gallagher What Culture Only TV - or, specifically, HBO - could give this magnificent, reckless, enormously entertaining masterwork of rage and hope, of politics and poetry, the unrestrained and generous canvas it deserves. Aug 29, 2014 | Full Review… Matt Roush TV Guide By far the most resonant aspect of Angels in America today is its exposure of simplistic struggles over definitions of "good" and "evil." Aug 26, 2014 | Full Review… Todd R. Ramlow PopMatters Blessed with a virtuoso cast, each of whom creates characters that live and haunt and mesmerize long after the final credits pass. Dec 7, 2018 | Full Review… Barry Garron Hollywood Reporter Top Critic Al Pacino and Meryl Streep lead an outstanding cast in Tony Kushner's epic play about Aids directed for television by Mike Nichols. Aug 14, 2018 | Full Review… Daniel Bettridge Guardian Top Critic Nichols effects a heady mix of theatre spectacle and cinematic style in some thrilling, extraordinarily beautiful sequences, resulting in a poetic, compassionate, ultimately hopeful work about the human condition at the turn of the millennium. Jun 8, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… Angie Errigo Empire Magazine Top Critic View All Critic Reviews (24) Audience Reviews for Angels in America: Season 1 LucasM Super Reviewer CarlosM Super Reviewer View All News & Features 150 Erotic Movies Ranked worst to best! 2019's Most Anticipated 63 movies coming up this year 200 Essential Movies Chosen by RT staff! 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