Angel

When my partner gets something into her head there is nothing that will stop her. Therefore, when I borrowed the first season of 'Angel' off a friend it was not enough. For the next four weeks I rented a different box set of 'Angel' meaning that I had seen over 100 episodes of the show in just 4 weeks! To say I had 'Angel' fatigue would be an understatement. I was originally going to write a review for each of the season box sets, but I just could not bring myself to dwell on it that many times. Instead please find below my review of 5 seasons of 'Angel' for a man who has just gone through an intensive watching experience. Over 5 seasons the show 'Angel' ...

Angel Season Two as a whole provides a sometimes perplexing mix of graphic violence and lighthearted humour. (I'm unable to comment on disk two of this season as this disk turned out to be a Buffy season one dvd!) As a finale I found the three concluding episodes (Over The Rainbow, Through the Looking Glass and There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb) to be very successful, combining the humour and darker elements coherently with an excellent pace and storyline as well as lots of imagination. At other times, however, I felt that the level of darkness threatened to drown out the humour as Angel's moral position became more unclear during the middle ...

'Angel' is the successful spin off from the equally successful 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'. Both television shows were created by Joss Whedon (David Greenwalt co-created Angel). Angel played David Boreanaz left 'Buffy' at the end of Season Three and moved to Los Angeles. Joss Whedon turns Angel from a dark brooding romantic figure into a dark brooding crime fighter a bit like Batman but without the S&M get up. In Los Angeles Angel meets a half demon half-human named Doyle played by Glen Quinn (who by the way died in December last year from a drug overdose). Doyle gets visions usually concerning humans being preyed upon by demons or ...