Angels in America | Season 1 | Episode 1

Millennium Approaches - Bad News

TV-MA | 1 HR 6 MIN

New York City, 1985. A gay couple's relationship is rocked by the revelation that one has AIDS; a young man named Joe Pitts is offered a job by conservative icon Roy Cohn – who also learns he has AIDS.

Season 1
Episodes

Season 1 Episodes

1.Millennium Approaches - Bad News

New York City, 1985. A gay couple's relationship is rocked by the revelation that one has AIDS; a young man named Joe Pitts is offered a job by conservative icon Roy Cohn – who also learns he has AIDS.

2.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.

3.Angels in America

Prior is visited by spectral namesake ancestors who herald the arrival of the messenger; Roy is visited by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg.

4.Perestroika - Stop Moving!

While Joe is being seduced by Louis, Prior is being aroused by the baffled Angel. Meanwhile, Roy's health worsens; Harper's hallucination is interrupted by reality; Prior tells Belize about his divine mission; and Hannah tries to help Harper.

5.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.

6.Angels in America

A fight with Joe leaves Louis scarred; Roy plays a final joke on Ethel; Prior wrestles the Angel; Prior vows to live--free of secrets.