EPISODE
Angels in America - Season 1
Playwright Tony Kushner adapted his political epic about the A.I.D.S. crisis during the mid 1980s and centers the story around a group of separate but connected individuals.
27 January 1940, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 September 1968, New York City, New York, USA
16 July 1956, New York City, New York, USA
11 September 1961, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, USA
11 December 1937, Columbus, Ohio, USA
12 December 1967, Richmond, Virginia, USA
2 August 1919, Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel]
1955, Hazlehurst, Mississippi, USA
22 June 1949, Summit, New Jersey, USA
15 August 1962, Ponce, Puerto Rico
February 21, 2020
Every performance draws you in and holds you in its grip, and Nichols directs with such inventiveness that Angels in America doesn't seem like a televised play at all but its own full-blown original movie.
September 02, 2014
I find the series far too pretentious and posturing; it forces itself on the viewer, and doesn't cease until the final credits role.
February 21, 2020
"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.
August 26, 2014
By far the most resonant aspect of Angels in America today is its exposure of simplistic struggles over definitions of "good" and "evil."
February 21, 2020
Angels in America is millennial, prophetic, funny and moving. Above all, it is vital viewing.
August 29, 2014
Only TV - or, specifically, HBO - could give this magnificent, reckless, enormously entertaining masterwork of rage and hope, of politics and poetry, the unrestrained and generous canvas it deserves.
August 22, 2014
Note-perfectly written for the screen by its playwright, Tony Kushner, the adaptation is as trenchant, poetic, fantastical, and moving as its source -- with the added thrill of an up-close cinematic approach.
July 02, 2018
Meryl Streep gave the performance of the year in any medium with her flawless disappearing act into (among others) a tenacious Mormon matron, a wily (male) rabbi, and the wry and vengeful specter of Ethel Rosenberg.
February 21, 2020
The performances are uniformly, unabashedly, be-still-my-heart superb.
August 22, 2014
Ultimately... the real problem is that Angels is and remains a play, not a movie.
August 26, 2014
Under director Nichols, Angels in America receives its definitive treatment and emerges as a vivid but exhausting experience. The great revelation is the cast, which proves there's no special effect equal to heartfelt acting.
February 21, 2020
Framed inside a smaller box, Angels is contained and drained; it bogs down, betrays its seams and patches; its lofty scaffolding creaks.