מלאכים באמריקה,
אולי אחת הסדרות הכי מרגשות שראיתי, בכלל. אני זוכר את עצמי רואה את הסדרה הזאת לפני כמה שנים, והכל כל כך היה רחוק ממני - ניו יורק של שנות השמונים, איידס, ובכל זאת... ספק פנטזיה - ספק ראי של תקופה, ישבתי מהופנט. זה התקציר מויקיפדיה: Set in New York City in the mid-1980s, Act One of Millennium Approaches introduces us to the central characters. Louis Ironson is a neurotic, gay Jew who lives with his lover, Prior Walter, a man living with AIDS. When Prior's illness proves to be too much of a burden, Louis moves out. Meanwhile, closeted homosexual Mormon and Republican law clerk Joe Pitt is offered a major promotion by his mentor, the McCarthyist lawyer Roy Cohn. Joe doesn't immediately take the job because he is worried about his Valium-addicted wife Harper. Unknown to Joe, Roy is himself deeply closeted and has also contracted AIDS. As the seven-hour play progresses, Prior finds himself being visited by ghosts and angels who proclaim him as a prophet; Joe finds himself struggling to reconcile his religion with his sexuality; Louis struggles with his ideology and the contradictions within it that threaten to destroy his happiness, and begins a relationship with Joe; Joe's mother Hannah moves to New York to attempt to look after Harper only to befriend Prior after a failed attempt by Prior to confront Hannah's son; Harper begins to value herself and find strength she was unaware of; and Roy finds himself in the hospital, his only companions being the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg and his nurse, Belize, a former drag queen and Prior's best friend, who is meanwhile dealing with with Louis's constant demands for updates on Prior's health. It is deliberately performed so that the moments requiring special effects often show their theatricality. Most of the actors play multiple characters (e.g., the actress playing Prior's nurse also appears as the Angel). There are heavy biblical references and references to American society, as well as some fantastical scenes including voyages to Antarctica and Heaven, as well as key events happening in San Francisco and at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park.
