Angels in Americast Part One: Millennials Approacheth (with Mara Wilson)
Good Christian Fun
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4.6 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 85 minutes
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SECOND SERVICE EPISODE UNLOCKED!
On this special ep of Second Service Kevin and Caroline talk about Part 1 (the first 3 eps on HBO Max) of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches with special guest Mara Wilson!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Good Christian Fun. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm Kevin and today we're doing something a little different. |
| 0:14.0 | And Chang with you are episode of GCF Second Service from last week covering Angels in America. |
| 0:20.4 | We covered Angels in America Part 1 Millennium Approaches with Special Guests Mara Wilson. |
| 0:25.6 | Now in listening back to this episode I realized that we were so excited to talk about it |
| 0:30.3 | that we basically gave zero context to the play and to the mini series before we got into |
| 0:36.7 | it. |
| 0:37.7 | So to catch you up to speed, Angels in America is a Pulitzer Prize winning epic play in |
| 0:43.4 | the literal sense of the word epic by Tony Kushner. |
| 0:47.0 | Part 1 premiered in 1991, Part 2 in 1982. |
| 0:50.5 | The play itself is set in the year 1985 and centers around prior Walter, a gay man who |
| 0:55.8 | learns he has AIDS but also learns he may be a prophet. |
| 1:00.0 | Also in the play it closeted Mormon man, real life historical figure Roy Cohn dealing with |
| 1:04.4 | his own AIDS diagnosis. |
| 1:05.8 | Oh and Ethel Rosenberg isn't there as well. |
| 1:09.0 | The version of the play we're covering today is the HBO mini series from 2003 starting |
| 1:12.8 | out Pacino, Merle Streep and Imit Thompson. |
| 1:16.0 | If you haven't seen it, please go watch it now. |
| 1:19.8 | It's on HBO Max, split up into six episodes. |
| 1:23.5 | Part 1 of the play is the first three episodes and I cannot recommend it enough. |
| 1:28.7 | This whole entire 7 hour movie is one of my favorite movies ever made. |
| 1:33.4 | It's my birthday month, October 11th, daily and Annie. |
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