Angel
Angel
TV-14 | 05 October 1999 (USA)
SEASON & EPISODES
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  • Reviews
    Plantiana

    Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

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    GazerRise

    Fantastic!

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    Arianna Moses

    Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

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    Maleeha Vincent

    It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

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    tacanderson

    My wife and I had just finished binge watching our latest show and were looking for something different. We're huge Joss Whedon fans and watched Buffy from the first airing until the last, but never really got into Angel. It was on a different night of the week and just never picked it up. But we've been fans of Grimm since it aired and the creator of Grimm, David Greenwalt, was co-creator of Angel with Joss. So we decided to give it a try. Darker than Buffy, and not as much humor, but still plenty of great lines and funny moments. The first season is a little rough. This is 12 years old now, and it shows a little, and they obviously were still working on smaller budgets. It's still great nostalgic fun, and you get to see lots of actors who went on to do other things make guest appearances.

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    annier-92577

    In some ways Angel feels like four or five different shows because so much changes so drastically as the show progresses. It is definitely at it's best at the beginning. By late season 3 things have started feeling shark jumpy, and the show had already gone through at least 2 or 3 incarnations by that point. So here's my ratings for all the different Angels (descriptions contain broad story arcs which might count as spoilers but I tried not to give anything too secret away):{SPOILER START):Angel #1- Angel, Doyle & Cordie in small PI firm, lots of cop/Angel interactions & helpless-helpingAngel #2 -Angel, Cordie, Wesley still small PI firm, still some cop or walk-in PI cases Angel #3 -Angle, Cordie, Wesley, Gunn, Fred, Lorne. Few PI cases. Hotel instead of PI firm. Ongoing devolving battle with Wolfram & Heart, with Darla & Holt as additional long-story bad guys. No police investigations anymore. More demons as good and bad guys, and as PI clients. Less about vampires or the streets of LA. More supernatural. Angel & Cordie get close, it seems like they are about to get together. Angel #4 -Things change again. Conor comes back grown. Wesley's status changes. Cordie & Angel ...well things aren't as expected. Both Cordie & Angel stop being themselves for awhile this season. Then Jasmine's arc, which feels like it's a season long but is really only 5 episodes. Angel #5 -Most Drastic changes. Angel & team take over Wolfram & Heart. No more PI firm at all now. Angel is now head of an evil empire trying to stop evil. Everyone else changes too. Gunn magically becomes a lawyer, bye-bye tough street kid. Fred become Illyria, bye-bye sweet bookish Fred. Cordie is gone. Conor gone too. Spike joins them, but he doesn't seem entirely like himself either (he just came from making a huge sacrifice for love of Buffy but he won't even pick up the phone to let her know he's alive?). Lorne leaves at one point, but he had already changed before that too (he used to run a night club remember). Lindsay, Wesley & Harmony return and become different versions of themselves too. The whole feel of the show changes. Then it ends.(SPOILERS END)So, things change a lot. Which means it doesn't go stale, but it also means it is hard to get comfortable with it. You end up missing characters when they are still there on the screen but everything has changed so much that you don't recognize them anymore. That said, like all Joss Whedon, there are still moments of brilliance even in the parts I find the most difficult to connect to. Humour too (like the puppet episode in the last season). Also, one of my very favourite Buffy episodes is actually an episode in Angel's first season when she comes to visit her dad in LA. It is brilliant and beautiful and touching. All Buffy fans should at least see that episode (S01e08 'I Will Remember You'). Here's how my ratings would break down: Beginning = 10 Middle = 8 End = 6 So I averaged out to an 8.

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    Red_Identity

    So, I certainly didn't expect that ending going into the finale. I kinda expected it when I saw how few minutes were left, but I'm so glad the show didn't end the way Buffy did. Not that Buffy ended badly, but sometimes, no real resolution is good. This really could've been a season finale. I also aren't a fan of a season having to build up to a "big fight" for the majority of its episodes. Season 5 wasn't like this because what we thought was the enemy kept changing. It's true what I've heard from many though. The show went on five seasons, but it still feels like it could've gone further. I appreciate that the show kept changing gears, kept changing what it was willing to do and what it did with the characters so that it never became stale or pointless. For my money, this is a really amazing series and I wish it had more exposure, certainly nearly as much as Buffy gets.

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    shanawerali24

    This is definitely the most underrated series i have seen. A series this good should easily have been given a rating of above 9.0. I have watched many series including Lost, Prison Break, The Shield, The Wire, The Walking Dead, Dexter But non of them are as dark, emotional and addicting as Angel. I wished this series could have continued 5 seasons are not enough for a story line so intriguing and perfect. Each and every element of the series is Perfect especially the intro music. Its my favorite music and definitely the most dark and addicting music ever. You might not like the first few seasons but please watch it to the end because after you finish the last episode I bet you'd agree with me that Angel is the best series there ever will be.................Angel FTW

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