Series

Angels in America 2003

Created by Tony Kushner

  • Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  • 58 min episodes
  • 1 season
  • 6 episodes
  • Ended
  • TV-MA

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.

DramaSci-Fi & Fantasynew york cityangelaidsdrag queendrug addictionheaventerminal illnessronald reaganhivbased on play or musicalminiseriessocial commentaryHBO

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