And she can't reconcile those two demands on her psyche. Linney has sole dibs on Hannah Pitt, Joe’s mother who comes to New York to rescue her spiraling son. I think they're torn. But the whole series, she's constantly being torn between, "Am I Molly or am I Sister Molly?" No, of course it wasn't. So by their very identity, they're separate from the institutional racism or xenophobia and brutality that exists around them, to a certain way. That's why they're so well matched in the show as characters. Craft (Rory Kinnear) was resistant to a lot of Elsa's (Dormer) attempts throughout the season to stir up hatred, but ultimately he does still choose the Nazi Party in the end. Where do you think the show fits into the conversation about how we should be portraying cops on television? (Disclosure: TV Guide is owned by CBS Interactive, a division of ViacomCBS.). City of Angels is a show that centers a couple of hero cops, but then it's also a show about how the police as an institution are overwhelmingly racist and violent and not interested in justice. Brandon Uranowitz takes on the part of guilty, self-rationalizing Louis in the character’s only appearance. Bill Burr’s ‘SNL’ monologue calls out white women, and Twitter (mostly) has his back. It makes you care for the characters in these difficult social situations. This closeted gay political henchman dying from AIDS believes, in his unapologetic racism, that his Black nurse is his negation, eager to escort him to the underworld. But it was a real bummer, because I just loved the character. And in VR it almost replicates a theme park experience. And our two lead characters are detectives, they're cops, but they're outsider cops, you know — they're not part of the traditional system. Logan: I definitely don't know anything. And that was the only fitting ending for the character, because she was torn between two worlds the same way that Tiago is torn between two worlds. So I'm gratified that the show is speaking to this moment now because, [as] we talked about [before the premiere], I've always felt that though this show was set in 1938, if it's not about 2020 then it's failed. The theater played a significant role in drawing public attention to the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ’90s, and the greatest work from this period, Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” has been called into service as a different virus upends our lives. Logan: [Laughs] Well, I love my Patti LuPone, believe me. Yeah, I have a lot of ideas. Do you think that by staying on the force, Tiago and Lewis are in any way complicit? The enduring genius of “Angels in America” is the way Kushner, in peering into a health crisis that disproportionately afflicted stigmatized communities, saw through to the chronic pathology of an America that had once again sacrificed justice and compassion for power and greed. To remember Tulsa, ‘Lovecraft Country’ went the extra mile: writing an opera. The selection of scenes isn’t meant to capture the full scale of the epic, which had its two-part premiere at the Mark Taper Forum in 1992. I think we're dialing into the supernatural a little more strongly and continuing the patterns of relationships from the first season, with some pretty shocking changes as well, because one of the things I think this show embraces is a fair amount of operatic melodrama. When Molly kills herself, she calls Santa Muerte (Lorenza Izzo) her sister. Logan: I think it's complicated. Tell me about bringing her back to the world of Penny Dreadful. Read at your own risk!]. I'm tempted to do it all the time, I have to tell you, because I love that original cast so much. The play is fragmented for a higher purpose: to shore up the vulnerable present through the example of the past, in which marginalized communities came together to confront an epidemiological tragedy that had been egregiously worsened by political incompetence and malfeasance. "City of Angels needs us, pal," Lewis told Tiago. We all fell in love with Kerry Bishé, who plays Sister Molly, and I can't count the number of times that Danny Zovatto came to me and said, "Please don't kill Sister Molly at the end." So is this really the last we've seen of Molly? There is as much potential for grace and grandeur in any institution and any character as there is for depravity. The idea of xenophobia and racism and homophobia and anti-Semitism have not gone away. Charles McNulty is the theater critic of the Los Angeles Times. Can you say anything about how that prophecy will specifically tie into Tiago? I think more to the point, it's a bit of guilt from Molly in terms of what has been done on her behalf by her mother, which she can't live with. So I'm really glad I got a chance to work with him, and we got to sort of immortalize that moment. We can’t allow this level of suffering to become acceptable. There’s a research and development value to this rendition of “Angels in America” that should inform future productions of the modern classic. She is naked, sick, dirty, crawling across Sunset Boulevard — how can this happen in L.A.? Wouldn't I love to see Billie Piper in this world, or Eva Green. You know, there's always the hope that working from the inside can make changes, and there's always the hope that working on the outside can make changes. And I don't think he does choose the Nazi Party. Logan: I have incredible sympathy for Dr. Close gasps as Roy M. Cohn on his deathbed, and Belize, the nurse, is played by Larry Owens, S. Epatha Merkerson and playwright Jeremy O. Harris. I think in the midst of all of the systemic racism that we are still grappling with as a country, and seeing, as we see in this show, the way it's continued to be a pattern throughout our history, it's very easy to think, "Yes, it is." The old battle has raged intensely throughout this epically horrible 2020, with an election looming to decide the fate of a more than 200-year-old democracy. And I've started writing some scripts just to explore different avenues. And if he can do his job well, if he can rise, if he can maintain his dignity and his soul, he will open the door for other Latino cops and detectives. An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America will be presented in support of amfAR's Fund to Fight COVID-19. “Squadrons” is no exception. By signing up, you agree to the CBS Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. The actors, isolating at home during the pandemic, filmed themselves. Irascible yet frightened in his helplessness, he asks for a portrait of the afterlife and is given an image of a harmoniously diverse San Francisco, “full of music and lights and racial impurity and gender confusion.”. Joe Pitt, Harper’s closeted husband, is missing in action. But as the 10-episode first season unfolded, the Showtime drama began to overlap with the headlines with frightening specificity. Can you tell me about that? She had like a day off, she came in, shot the scene, sang the song beautifully, and then went back to the Hollywood set the next day, so she's a real trouper. The most moving scenes in this compilation are the first and the last. How to vote. Logan: [Laughs] Kelly, you'll have to wait and see. You may unsubscribe at any time. And I believe it was his last film performance. We saw Elsa and Rio, two of Magda's human guises, interact for the first time in the finale. Click Here for More Articles on Shutdown Streaming, Marie's Crisis Pianists Will Resume Daily Sets on Facebook. Molly could have run away by herself or told Tiago or the cops what her mother did. There's been a lot of discussion lately about cop shows. So should our eyes now be peeled for more Patti? I was wondering why Tiago stays on the force, especially after the events of the finale, when he gets beaten up. And it was great just spending a day with him and Michael Gladis, doing that scene. It's eerie and disturbing how much the narratives that we dramatize reflect the world we live in, because as you know, our last two episodes feature a person of color being lynched by the police force and a peaceful march that turns into a race riot. One of them's Latino, one of them's Jewish. Keep track of your favorite shows and movies, across all your devices. 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