An impressive cast stars in this award-winning adaptation of Tony Kushner's play Angels in America. Tackling subjects of sexuality, religion and politics, the drama focuses on the interconnected lives of a group of characters dealing with the harsh realities of 1980's New York in the shadow of an AIDS epidemic.
The crux of the story follows Prior Walker (Justin Kirk), a gay man from New York who has recently been diagnosed with AIDS and experiences visions of a decending angel (Emma Thompson) who tells him that he has been chosen as a prophet. Meanwhile, attorney Roy Cohn (Al Pacino) refuses to accept that he has AIDS and is being haunted by the ghost of a woman (Meryl Streep) who he had previously sent to the electric chair. The two main characters are connected by Roy's protege, Joe Pitt (Patrick Wilson), who leaves his wife for Prior's former partner, Louis (Ben Shenkman).
In a time of immense social and political change, when AIDS was claiming lives at a rapid rate and gay men were being branded as 'killers', the drama captures the true essence of what it was like to be gay during the Reagan era, and explores each of the characters' hopes and dreams as well as their fears and uncertainties.
The first part of this insightful drama starts tonight at 9pm on Sky Atlantic.
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