Angels In America Isn't Actually All That Great

...yet it received several trillion Emmy nominations. The double-premise of Kushner's play is 1) when you're in love, the whole world is gay, and 2) Roy Cohn was a bastard. That doesn't take too long to convey on stage or on screen so the remaining 57 hours or so of airtime was filled up by clownish levels of overacting, recitations by the yard of the various catechisms of the New York liberal intellectual community c. 1986, and a bizarre theological backstory that was ultimately just boring.

Nobody doubts that Al Pacino is a great actor.

Somebody needs to let critics know it's alright to give a thumb's down to a slick poseur with a martyr complex like Kushner.