The BEST episodes directed by Mike Nichols
#1 - Millennium Approaches - The Messenger
Angels in America - Season 1 - Episode 3
Prior returns home and is visited by a pair of spectral namesake ancestors who herald the arrival of the messenger; a tussle with Joe leaves Roy with the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg. Later, Joe and Louis hook up in Central Park while Prior meets the angelic messenger.
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#2 - Millennium Approaches - Bad News
Angels in America - Season 1 - Episode 1
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.
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#3 - Millennium Approaches - In Vitro
Angels in America - Season 1 - Episode 2
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.
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#4 - Perestroika - Heaven, I'm in Heaven
Angels in America - Season 1 - Episode 6
A fight with Joe leaves Louis badly scarred; Roy plays a final practical joke on Ethel; Prior wrestles the Angel and then addresses a review board in Heaven; Harper heads out West; Prior, outliving his diagnosis, pays a visit to his favorite angel and vows to keep living--free of secrets.
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#5 - Perestroika - Beyond Nelly
Angels in America - Season 1 - Episode 5
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. High on morphine, Roy paints a different picture of heaven.
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#6 - Perestroika - Stop Moving!
Angels in America - Season 1 - Episode 4
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.
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