Angels in America (2003)

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20031 Season58m episodes7.6

Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

TMDB7.6

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Runtime: 58m episodes
Genre: Drama
Certificate: TV-MA
Origin: US

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The messenger has arrived.

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.

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Status: Ended
First aired: Dec 7, 2003
Network: HBO
Studio: HBO Films, Avenue Pictures

Time to finish

6 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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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

Patrick Wilson

Joe Pitt

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SERIES

20031 Season58m episodes7.6

Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

TMDB7.6

Votes267

Your rating

Runtime: 58m episodes
Genre: Drama
Certificate: TV-MA
Origin: US

About

The messenger has arrived.

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Region

Stream

HBO Max Amazon Channel

Buy

Availability from JustWatch via TMDB.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Dec 7, 2003 · 1h 6m · ★ 7.4
Millennium Approaches: Bad News
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 marriage. Meanwhile, Roy Cohn checks into the hospital.
E2 · Airs Dec 7, 2003 · 55m · ★ 8.0
Millennium Approaches: In Vitro
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.
E3 · Airs Dec 7, 2003 · 58m · ★ 7.4
Millennium Approaches: The Messenger
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 meets the angelic messenger.
E4 · Airs Dec 14, 2003 · 57m · ★ 7.6
Perestroika: Stop Moving!
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.
E5 · Airs Dec 14, 2003 · 1h 3m · ★ 6.1
Perestroika: Beyond Nelly
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 morphine, Roy paints a different picture of heaven.
E6 · Airs Dec 14, 2003 · 1h 16m · ★ 10.0
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 favorite angel and vows to keep living--free of secrets.

Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Dec 7, 2003
Network: HBO
Studio: HBO Films, Avenue Pictures

Time to finish

6 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

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

Patrick Wilson

Joe Pitt

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