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 Roy Cohn
as Harper Pitt
as Prior Walter / Leatherman in the Park
as Louis Ironson / The Angel Oceania
as Joe Pitt
as Norman "Belize" Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa
as Nurse Emily / Homeless Woman / The Angel
as Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia
as Martin Heller
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…