Season 1
6 episodes
63 min. per episode
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AIDS diagnosis shatters Prior's world as betrayal, ambition, and haunting visions collide in a struggle for truth and love.
Episodes
Louis abandons a hospitalized Prior; Joe and Roy confide in each other over drinks. Later, Prior hears voices from his hospital bed while Louis solicits sex from strangers, and Joe makes a drunken confession to his mother.
Cohn is diagnosed with AIDS. He pushes Joe to take the job in Washington so he can help Cohn keep his job. Prior becomes more sick and goes to the hospital, Louis can't handle being there for him so he leaves him. Joe comes out to his mother and wife as being a homosexual.
Cohn tells Joe how he was responsible for having the Rosenbergs - an American couple suspected of being Soviet espionage agents - executed. Fantasy begins to seep into reality when, soon after, a dead Ethel Rosenberg appears to Cohn and as classic retribution, making fun of his slow death.
Louis, having forsaken his dying lover, Prior, returns to his apartment with the married lawyer, Joe, in tow. Cohn's doctor admits him to the hospital. Once there, Cohn meets Nurse Norman "Belize" Arriaga - a drag queen who also happens to be Prior's good friend.
Joe's mother, Hannah Pitt, has come all the way from Utah to see her son, who revealed the truth to her in a phone call days earlier. Having gotten lost in the homeless person riddled streets of the Bronx, she finally arrives at the Mormon Visitors' Center.
In 1985, Prior is diagnosed with AIDS and his lover Louis deserts him. Powerful lawyer Roy Cohn tempts Mormon and closeted gay Joe Pitt to the dark side. Joe and Louis get it on while Joe's wife Harper hallucinates an imaginary friend.