Angels in America

Several several months ago, John sent me home with the mini series Angels in America, put out by HBO about 6 years ago. I had heard about it, but didn't really know what it was about. I had kind of forgotten I had it until the summer lull hit, so I decided I would finally watch it.

It's a six-hour miniseries about the AIDS epidemic in the mid-80s in NYC. (It was originally a play.) It has an all-star cast starring: Al Pacino, Mary-Louise Parker, Meryl Streep, and Emma Thompson, just to name a few.

If follows many story lines, with all the characters intertwining in some way. Some of it was very strange and weird, but in the end it was just different for the movies and shows that I usually watch. It was more of a dark humor drama, but more sad than happy. At times, it felt like more like a play than a movie, especially at the end, where the character were looking directly at the camera and talking to the audience. It wasn't really bad, but I didn't really enjoy it all that much. I think I might enjoy the play better, probably because the movie lasted 6 hours! But it was interesting and something different to watch.