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Summary: angel
Review: While I dont think Angel is as good as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it is still an excellent show. One thing I noticed about Angel is that it is more popular with adults than Buffy is. I'm not saying that Buffy is a kids show, but a large number of fans are teenagers. The whole cast is great, and so is the writing. The Special Features are great too, but the episodes are all I really care about. If you like any season of Buffy or if you liked the first season of Angel, buy this.
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Summary: Season 2
Review: Season 2 was better that season one because we meet Fred. Cordy and Angel become closer friends. The whole gang works together better as a team to fight evil. Cordy is less snobby and Angel is less brooding. He seems happier in his role as the gangs leader...
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Summary: angele season two
Review: I love all of the Angel stories and have been tapping them; but it sure would be nice to have them on dvd. I follow the stories as much as possible when not working. I find it amazing how they come up with something new each week that holds your interest. I can't hardly wait for the next episode to come out the following week. They never get boring and i never lose interest like i have with other stories. I would like to have all the angel stories on dvd. Please release them all. Thanks!
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Summary: Angel Season 2 Keeps you excited enough to watch >100 times
Review: Season 2 became the pivotal point for Angel investigations. As Angel has learned that he will become human, Gunn is now a part of investigations, and the Host becomes a friend. Even though Wesley is a recurrent cast member, this season sets the tone for him to become a "hero".
The second episode "Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been", I have watched probably over 50 times, is the best episode since Becoming Part 2. In fact it is the best episode of the entire BTVS and Angel series combined. It sets everything in to place for Angel investigations at the Hyperion. (It is sad thought that they are stating the Hotel will no longer be apart of Angel as the end of Season 4 is coming). Back to Season 2...Lindsey and friends are the constant bad that will always be there to cause Angel and friends trouble. The show from Season 1 had constant bad guys, but now it is known what W&H wants (Angel on their side in the coming Apocalypse). As we go into the season, we see that Angel is having to deal with his Sire Darla. Inner troubles cause Angel to get rid of his gang and hunt her down and kill her. However, as the season winds down, it ends perfectly. We go to Pylea where the Host is from to find a new soon to be Angel member next season, Fred. The last 3 episodes are just brilliant. It is no wonder that the show can hold its own. Overall, Season 2 has been my favorite season of all 4 seasons of Angel combined and all 7 seasons of Buffy combined. One word...Angel. This character has inner struggles that allows him to be ever changing. He isn't constant and season 2 explores this very well. Season 2 is a must buy...period.
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Summary: Great Show, Great Season, Bad Release Date
Review: This was an amazing season, with a great opening hook in the first episode and a grea ending to the last episode. I'd recommend it to just about anyone. The first seemed a bit awkward to me, even though it was still a good 22 episodes, but this one has grown into its maturity and shown its best. I have yet to see the 3rd and mos tof the 4th but this was still great. I only have one complaint: why the delay? The same thing is happening with Buffy. This whole '6-months between dvd relaeses' is rediculous. I don't want to wait that long, and I'm not being impatient: when the dvd releases for europe are almost to their 4th season release we have to wait like 2 more years. Plus, now that the Buffy series is dead, shouldn't they be speeding up its releases? I like the shows, but I just loathe this whole industry. But you can't have everything, so o well, life goes on...
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Summary: Great Second Season!
Review: This is the second season of a brilliant series, in which the show really finds its footing. The Angel Investigations team becomes more complete with the addition of Charles Gunn, a young guy who has lived on the streets all of his life, fighting vampires. Besides the great writing and interesting plots, the characters are really what makes this show. They're all so different and each add something very special to the show. This season also marks the return of Angelus' former lover, Darla, who hadn't been seen since the first season of "Buffy". Throw her back into the mix (as human again, no less) as well as the crazy vampire Drusilla and it makes for a very interesting season.
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Summary: On its own... at last
Review: Angel: Season 2 was where the show started to move into its own 'formula', and the opening statement that Angel himself was not devastated by the loss of Buffy served to encompase one fact: the show was on its own.Where the first season essentially followed the monster-of-the-week plus occasional storyline episode formula that has been tried and true on Buffy, Season 2 started to move away from that into the darker, emotionally churning state of being that we viewers have grown so used to in the third and fourth seasons. The second season of Angel also points at the show's tendency to serve an overarching plot rather than a seasonal "Big Bad", when it ends with a trip to a different dimension instead of concluding the Darla storyline (which is completed in the third season). But though this season has a darker, more plot-arc oriented spine, it still contains some excellent character and monster-of-the-week episodes. One of these is "Are You Now or Were You Ever?", thought by fans everywhere as being one of the best episodes of the show. Other greats include "Darla", "Guise will Beguise", and "The Shroud of Rahmon". There are also portents of the futures of the different characters interspersed throughout the season. This is where Wesley really matured, becoming a hard-bitten leader rather than a comical sidekick. You can see his character being prepared to make the harder choices that cause him to be so dark later on in the series. Angel himself has a hard time of it throughout this season, but then, when does he not? He grows dark, deep-set despair keeping him from both his mission and his friends. But his redemption is both funny and touching when he returns towards the end of the season. Cordelia grows immensely during this season, primarily because of her visions. She's still "tell it like it is" Cordy, but her caring for others grows by leaps and bounds, setting the stage for the Cordelia we know later on in the third season. Charles Gunn also joins the Fang Gang, forsaking his old 'crew' to help Angel Investigations in a slow process that is (fortunately) very believable. Also in this season we are introduced to two new characters that will later become regulars: Fred and Lorne (the Host). The first is a slightly cooky, very intelligent woman who was stuck in Pylea for five years before returning with the Angel Investigations gang. The second, Lorne, is a truly unique character - a demon that sings, and can read a person's destiny when that person sings. Both are excellent additions to the group, and help to flesh out the dynamic between the characters. In conclusion, Angel: Season 2 serves as a stage-setter for the third and fourth seasons' storylines and characters, and contains some truly memorable episodes as well.
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Summary: Emerging into his own...
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"Angel: Season Two" is when the series truly came into its own. No longer in the shadows of Sunnydale, "Angel" develops a stellar cast, thought-proving suspense, and cinematic style unlike any other television series. This modern-day, morality play begins when Darla, the vampire that sired Angel, re-emerges in L.A. Angel, spurned by Darla's misfortune and encouraged by temptation, descends into darkness. Ultimately, both Angel and Darla experience the elusive nature of redemption and the show has never been stronger.
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Summary: The Very Best of Angel
Review: Season 2 of Angel is definitely the best, and I've seen all of Season 3 and all that has aired of Season 4. Why is Season 2 the best? It has the best cast of recurring characters, almost all of whom are gone by the end of episode 18. And it has a definite arc, although some freestanding episodes are interspersed in among the progressing shows. One of the very best of the freestanding episodes is Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been, which is a true masterpiece (and has echoes of the original Twilight Zone episode The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street!). Disharmony is also an excellent stand-alone episode, but this is one of the funniest episodes yet as Mercedes McNab reprises her role as Harmony the ditzy vampire from Sunnydale. She is a riot! This season also provides the strongest conflict between Angel Investigations and its nemesis, the evil law firm of Wolfram & Hart, as Angel's sire Darla is brought back from the dead (at the cost of Lindsey's right hand) to beguile and bedevil Angel. Lorne the empathetic demon is a welcome addition to the cast from the first episode, and the addition of Fred in the last four episodes (and also The Groosalugg, who will be around in the beginning of Season 3) is a touch of genius. However, the highlight of Season 2 is the Angel/Darla/Lindsey conflict, with the brilliant contributions of two gorgeous and remarkably talented actors, Julie Benz and Christian Kane. They were a devastating loss to the show when the storyline ended (although Benz makes a few appearances in Season 3 and one in Season 4). Drusilla enters in The Trial and, along with Stephanie Romanov (Lindsey's evil colleague Lilah), Sam Anderson (their boss Holland Manners), and Gerry Becker (his replacement Nathan Reed) provide the counterpoint to the Angel Investigations theme. These magnificent actors are gone from the show much too soon, with the exception of Romanov. And the storyline peaks in Reunion, an episode with an ending that must be seen to be believed. Elisabeth Rohm (Kate Lockley) is another brilliant cast member who leaves the show at the end of this season, and Julia Lee (Anne Steele, who had called herself first Chanterelle and then Lily on two episodes of Buffy) appears too briefly. Other highlights include songs by Andy Hallett (Lorne), Julie Benz, and Christian Kane, all of whom sing very well, and songs by David Boreanaz and the trio of Wes, Cordy, and Gunn, who don't! And the bookish Wes becomes a true hero as the season develops. In the last four (Pylea) episodes, he becomes a leader. There is also a very brief appearance by Eliza Dushku as Faith. Buy this, watch this, and cherish this. You'll never see its like again. This is definitely the best of Angel.
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Summary: When "Angel" Hit Its Stride
Review: This was the season of "Angel" that had some of the most memorable moments, including the return of Darla, and Darla's joining up with Drusilla to become the undead Thelma and Louise. Darla will return in season 3 playing an important role in that season's groundbreaking storyline, but the seeds are planted here in season 2. Angel also went on a bender after Wolfram & Hart, eventually firing the Fang Gang and sending them off to form their own demon-fighting service. Along the way, we come across Anne, who we formerly knew once as Lilly and before that as Chanterelle, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"'s lost soul looking for a purpose. after her involvement with the Slayer on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", Anne has gained a sense of resolve and is now running a shelter for runaways. And two new characters that will later become permanent members of the cast join the action. The first is Krevlornswath of the Dethwok Clan, who we know for most of the season as The Host of the demon bar, Caritas. And when the Fang Gang makes an unscheduled visit to The Host's dimension of Pylea, we find Winifred "Fred" Burkle, the physics whiz kid who's been trapped there as a slave for the last five years. This was a pivitol season for the series. Much of the events happening even today on Angel trace their way back to season 2, making this a must-own.
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