Angels in America (2003)

Directed by

Mike Nichols

Genre

drama television series, miniseries, LGBT-related television series, fantasy television series

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 257 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1985 New York City, a gay man with AIDS named Prior Walter starts seeing an angel. The story follows Prior and five other people whose lives connect in unexpected ways as they face the AIDS crisis and the politics of the Reagan era.

fantasticalintensemelancholicurgentthoughtfulvisually stylizedemotionalsprawling

What happens

Angels in America is a 2003 American miniseries directed by Mike Nichols and based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning 1991 play of the same name by Tony Kushner. Set in 1985, the miniseries revolves around six New Yorkers whose lives intersect. At its core, it is the fantastical story of Prior Walter, a gay man living with AIDS who is visited by an angel. The miniseries explores a wide variety of themes, including Reagan era politics, the spreading AIDS epidemic, and a rapidly changing social and political climate. HBO broadcast the film in various formats: two three-hour chunks that correspond to Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, further divided into six one-hour "chapters" that roughly correspond to an act or two of each of these plays; the first three chapters ("Bad News", "In Vitro", and "The Messenger") were initially broadcast on December 7, 2003, to international acclaim, with the final three chapters ("Stop Moving!", "Beyond Nelly", and "Heaven, I'm in Heaven") following. Angels in America was the most-watched made-for-cable film in 2003, and earned much critical acclaim and numerous accolades: at the 56th Primetime Emmy Awards, it became the first of only three programs in Emmy history (along with Schitt's Creek in 2020, and The Crown in 2021) to sweep every major eligible category, and won all four acting categories. It also won in all five eligible categories at the 61st Golden Globe Awards. In 2006, The Seattle Times listed the series among "Best of the filmed AIDS portrayals" on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of AIDS. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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