Limited Series poster

Limited Series

(2003)

Overview

Millennium Approaches (Episodes 1-3): It is 1985 and AIDS is causing mass death in USA. In Manhattan, Prior Walter tells Louis, his lover, that he has AIDS; Louis, unable to handle it, leaves him. Joe Pitt, a Mormon and Republican attorney, is pushed by right-wing fixer Roy Cohn toward a job at the US Department of Justice. Both Pitt and Cohn are in the closet: Pitt out of shame and religious turmoil, Cohn to preserve his power and image. Pitt's wife Harper is strung out on Valium, hallucinatin…

Cast

Justin Kirk as Prior Walter / Leatherman in the Park
Justin Kirk

as Prior Walter / Leatherman in the Park

Ben Shenkman as Louis Ironson / The Angel Oceania
Ben Shenkman

as Louis Ironson / The Angel Oceania

Patrick Wilson as Joe Pitt
Patrick Wilson

as Joe Pitt

Al Pacino as Roy Cohn
Al Pacino

as Roy Cohn

Jeffrey Wright as Norman "Belize" Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa
Jeffrey Wright

as Norman "Belize" Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa

Mary-Louise Parker as Harper Pitt
Mary-Louise Parker

as Harper Pitt

Emma Thompson as Homeless Woman / The Angel
Emma Thompson

as Homeless Woman / The Angel

Meryl Streep as Hannah Pitt
Meryl Streep

as Hannah Pitt

Episodes

Millennium Approaches: Chapter One - Bad News poster

Millennium Approaches: Chapter One - Bad News 7.9

December 7, 2003

Prior Walter is diagnosed with AIDS that changes his life and he must deal with such new obstacle. Moreover, his partne…

Millennium Approaches: Chapter Two - In Vitro poster

Millennium Approaches: Chapter Two - In Vitro 8.5

December 7, 2003

Louis abandons a hospitalized Prior; Joe and Roy confide in each other over drinks. Later, Prior hears voices from his …

Millennium Approaches: Chapter Three - The Messenger poster

Millennium Approaches: Chapter Three - The Messenger 7.8

December 7, 2003

Prior returns home and is visited by a pair of spectral namesake ancestors who herald the arrival of the messenger; a t…

Perestroika: Chapter Four - Stop Moving! poster

Perestroika: Chapter Four - Stop Moving! 8.0

December 14, 2003

The story continues with Prior finally confronting the visions, Cohn desperately trying to manipulate the system to his…

Perestroika: Chapter Five - Beyond Nelly poster

Perestroika: Chapter Five - Beyond Nelly 6.4

December 14, 2003

Louis arranges a meeting with Prior; Joe visits Roy in the hospital and gets an unwelcome father's blessing; Prior drag…

Perestroika: Chapter Six - Heaven, I'm in Heaven poster

Perestroika: Chapter Six - Heaven, I'm in Heaven 10.0

December 14, 2003

A fight with Joe leaves Louis badly scarred; Roy plays a final practical joke on Ethel; Prior wrestles the Angel and th…