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. Read critic reviews
Angels in America (2003)
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Episodes
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1. Chapter 1: Bad News
Air date: Dec 8, 2003
A gay couple's relationship is tested when one tests positive for AIDS; a job offer from conservative icon Roy Cohn.
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2. Chapter 2: In Vitro
Air date: Dec 9, 2003
Prior hears voices from his hospital bed; Louis solicits sex from strangers; Joe makes a confession to his mother.
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3. Chapter 3: The Messenger
Air date: Dec 10, 2003
Prior returns home and is visited by a pair of spectral namesake ancestors who herald the arrival of 'the messenger."
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4. Chapter 4: Stop Moving!
Air date: Dec 15, 2003
While Joe is being seduced by Louis, Prior gets aroused by the baffled Angel; Roy's health worsens; Hannah tries to help.
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5. Chapter 5: Beyond Nelly
Air date: Dec 16, 2003
Louis plans to meet with Prior; under the influence of morphine, Roy paints a picture of heaven; Prior drags Belize to the courthouse.
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6. Chapter 6: Heaven, I'm in Heaven
Air date: Dec 17, 2003
Louis is badly scarred after a fight with Joe; Prior addresses a review board in heaven; Prior vows to live free of secrets.
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Audience Reviews for Angels in America: Season 1
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This star studded tv movie is watchable, but a huge letdown for anyone who saw the original Broadway show. This was a show that was very of-the-moment. The show premiered on Broadway in 1993; and the first part was called Millennium Approaches. It hooked into everyone's fears about Armageddon and Y2K; that the world would end with the turn of the millennium. And it cleverly tied Armageddon type imagery with the Holocaust that was the AIDS crisis; which was still very much in full swing in 1991 and 1992 when this was written and first produced. By the time this movie came out the Millennium had long turned over; there was no Armageddon; and the three-drug-cocktail had just been invented; and the world was turning a corner in terms of the AIDS crisis. So the show's themes just didn't have the same punch, the same immediacy when this HBO special aired in 2003-2004. The acting is good but as someone who saw the original show it just doesn't hold a candle to the play, unfortunately. And that goes pretty much across the board for this tv movie; it just can't compete with the landmark, Pulitzer Prize Winning play. The best part about this is Meryl Streep dressed up as an 80 year old Rabbi giving a eulogy; that was amazing. The rest was a disappointment.
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A (mostly*) timeless masterpiece. I can't even describe this adequately, you'll have to experience it for yourself. *The epilogue feels very 1990/1.
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A dense, strange epic on philosophy, theology, and politics. Heavy viewing, but consistently compelling and never so incomprehensible that you'd need a degree in one of the subjects to figure out what's going on (unlike some other philosophical fiction works I've encountered). Not everyone's cup of tea by a long shot, because a lot of it can be hard to watch, but if you can stomach the relentlessly intense misery, it's highly recommended.
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Brilliant adaption as a TV movie of Kushner's Play by Mike Nichols. It combines opposites - classical Shakespearean soliloquy with contemporary realism, brings in the Devil next to God, roars at Nietzsche's from the other side - that perhaps existentialism - the grandson of Nietzsche brings up primal anger and sense of betrayal by God - not a sense of freedom. It is chaotic on purpose. It asks questions and gives no answers. It raises the issue of the meaningless of pain and suffering yet ends on a moment of hope.
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Loved the entire series for so many reasons--the wit, the casting, the acting, the grappling with difficult situations, the conflict when watching, the basically very human element at work and the difficulty in being a viewer who wants to intervene as if these characters are real people. Moving and extraordinary work,
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There is absolutely nothing wrong here. They got it right.
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