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      Season 1 – Angels in America

      2003 Drama List
      90% 31 Reviews Tomatometer 93% 100+ Ratings Audience Score Adapted from Tony Kushner's award-winning plays about social, sexual, religious and other issues facing 1980s America as the AIDS crisis gains momentum. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Jun 03 Buy Now

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      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.

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      Ally Moore J Damn, Emma Thompson and Meryl Streep are a delight to watch. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/07/23 Full Review Mike P 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. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Jens B 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. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/01/22 Full Review duncan p 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. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member 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, Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Episode 1 Aired Dec 8, 2003 Chapter 1: Bad News A gay couple's relationship is tested when one tests positive for AIDS; a job offer from conservative icon Roy Cohn. Details Episode 2 Aired Dec 9, 2003 Chapter 2: In Vitro Prior hears voices from his hospital bed; Louis solicits sex from strangers; Joe makes a confession to his mother. Details Episode 3 Aired Dec 10, 2003 Chapter 3: The Messenger Prior returns home and is visited by a pair of spectral namesake ancestors who herald the arrival of 'the messenger." Details Episode 4 Aired Dec 15, 2003 Chapter 4: Stop Moving! While Joe is being seduced by Louis, Prior gets aroused by the baffled Angel; Roy's health worsens; Hannah tries to help. Details Episode 5 Aired Dec 16, 2003 Chapter 5: Beyond Nelly Louis plans to meet with Prior; under the influence of morphine, Roy paints a picture of heaven; Prior drags Belize to the courthouse. Details Episode 6 Aired Dec 17, 2003 Chapter 6: Heaven, I'm in Heaven Louis is badly scarred after a fight with Joe; Prior addresses a review board in heaven; Prior vows to live free of secrets. Details

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      James Wolcott Daily Telegraph (UK) Framed inside a smaller box, Angels is contained and drained; it bogs down, betrays its seams and patches; its lofty scaffolding creaks. Feb 21, 2020 Full Review Tom Shales Washington Post "Angels in America" is one of the most dazzling movies ever made for television or any other means of projecting a film, but it dazzles the mind as well as the eye. Feb 21, 2020 Full Review Belinda Acosta Austin Chronicle The performances are uniformly, unabashedly, be-still-my-heart superb. Feb 21, 2020 Full Review Alberto Carlos Espinof A fine work and a most theatrical adaptation. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 4.5/5 Jan 23, 2023 Full Review Michael Cuby them. It's able to give an even greater power to the text’s fantastical elements, bringing them to life in even more electrifying ways than they could have ever done on stage. Oct 31, 2022 Full Review Ian Kilroy Irish Times Angels in America is millennial, prophetic, funny and moving. Above all, it is vital viewing. Feb 21, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

      Season Info

      Director
      Mike Nichols
      Screenwriter
      Tony Kushner
      Network
      HBO
      Rating
      TV-MA
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date
      Dec 8, 2003