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
as Prior Walter / Leatherman in the Park
as Louis Ironson / The Angel Oceania
as Joe Pitt
as Roy Cohn
as Norman "Belize" Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa
as Harper Pitt
as Homeless Woman / The Angel
as Hannah Pitt
Episodes
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 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 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! 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 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 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…