8.2/10813 votes#1 - Millennium Approaches: Chapter One - Bad News
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/7/2003
Prior Walter is diagnosed with AIDS that changes his life and he must deal with such new obstacle. Moreover, his partner abandoned him. He has also increasing hallucinations and Mormon's mother comes to New York in order to save her son's marriage. Meanwhile, Roy Cohn checks into the hospital.
Director: Mike Nichols
Writer: Tony Kushner
8.2/10399 votes#2 - Millennium Approaches: Chapter Two - In Vitro
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/7/2003
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.
Director: Mike Nichols
Writer: Tony Kushner
8.0/10394 votes#3 - Millennium Approaches: Chapter Three - The Messenger
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/7/2003
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.
Director: Mike Nichols
Writer: Tony Kushner
8.0/10368 votes#4 - Perestroika: Chapter Four - Stop Moving!
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/14/2003
The story continues with Prior finally confronting the visions, Cohn desperately trying to manipulate the system to his benefit - all the while haunted by one of his victims, and Harper attempting to regain control of her life.
Director: Mike Nichols
Writer: Tony Kushner
8.2/10364 votes#5 - Perestroika: Chapter Five - Beyond Nelly
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/14/2003
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.
Director: Mike Nichols
Writer: Tony Kushner
8.3/10642 votes#6 - Perestroika: Chapter Six - Heaven, I'm in Heaven
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/14/2003
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.
Director: Mike Nichols
Writer: Tony Kushner
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Follow six New Yorkers whose lives intersect amidst the AIDS crisis and the rapidly changing socio-political climate of 1985.
Genres:DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:HBO
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Millennium Approaches: Chapter One - Bad News" is the best rated episode of "Angels in America" season 1. It scored 8.2/10 based on 813 votes. Directed by Mike Nichols and written by Tony Kushner, it aired on 12/7/2003. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Millennium Approaches: Chapter Two - In Vitro".