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Angel - Season 5 (New Edition) [DVD]
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Not for the Depressive!
Review date: 2010-01-20 Rating: 8 out of 10
To be honest, I bought this season of Angel to find out what happened to Spike- as I'd become attached to him during the last two seasons of Buffy. I was impressed with the show, even coming in with no background on the characters and what they'd been up to in the first 4 seasons. I 'bonded' quickly and found the story lines compelling.
But it was incredibly negative and depressing. Whereas Buffy and her crew seem to bounce back after each Apocalypse, these people seem to be ground under by their never-ending battle against evil. My normal optimistic take on life was eroded bit by bit and I found myself agreeing with some of the more dire observations about the human condition. Not something that helps people get on with their lives. More likely getting more people reaching for another drink!
And the end... well I should have stuck with the end of Buffy. At least I felt like the sacrifices were worth it there. Knowing Spike survived only long enough to battle one more apocolypse- without Buffy who has 'moved on with her life'- left my romantic heart in tatters.
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Reviews
The last TV series, but there is now an official season 6
Review date: 2009-04-16 Rating: 10 out of 10
Angel was the best series on television, and I felt such regret when it ended. If you're reading this, chances are that you probably feel the same. However, because it was never the fans who deserted Angel, Joss Whedon himself personally supervised an official (and canonical) Season 6 in full colour graphic novel format. It's called Angel: After The Fall and it continues the story as it would have been had Angel continued. The drawn likenesses are spot on and all the action, plot and humour of the TV series has been captured perfectly. As someone who never buys comic books, I bought the first volume Angel: After The Fall: After the Fall: After the Fall v. 1 (Angel (IDW Publishing)) hesitantly, but it's fantastic, it really is, and if you want to find out what happened after that fight in the alleyway - the official story as told by Joss Whedon - then you must buy this. Find out what happens to Angel, Gunn, Spike, Illyria/Fred, Wesley, Lorne and also Gwen, Nina and Connor. Hope you don't mind that this isn't a review of Season 5 as such, but I hope you've found it helpful.
End of an era
Review date: 2008-07-21 Rating: 6 out of 10
after four mixed seasons this final pays off very well and provides some of the best episodes to date(its the only season i purchased for dvd :).
plus Spike(another from Buffy to do this)makes the season which is a success story.
conviction-3/5
just rewards-3/5
unleashed-2/5-awful werewolf story.
hellbound-4/5
life of a party-3/5
numero cinco-1/5
lineage-4/5
destiny-4/5
Harms way-4/5
soul purpose-4/5
damage-4/5
youre welcome*-5/5-a classic episode that is the best episode of the entire show!!!!
why we fight-1/5
smile time*-5/5-another great episode of the show...angel as a puppet=classic.
a hole in the world-5/5
shells-4/5
underneath-3/5
origin-3/5
time bomb-4/5
girl in question-1/5
power play-3/5
not fade away-5/5-the final episode that finishes on a high note.
despite some flaws this is the best season of the show and is worth purchasing!!!
Untimely End to A Fantastic Show
Review date: 2008-03-21 Rating: 10 out of 10
'All good things must have an end' and unfortunatly, this is Angels. Possibly the best season yet, you'll be laughing, crying and cursing the network that cancelled this gem.
The stand out episodes for me were Hellbound, Harms Way, Smile Time and Not Fade Away. Ones to watch even if you haven't really got into the rest of the season - Especially Not Fade Away, which unfortunatly leaves us on a cliffhanger (I believe Joss didn't know that the show was going to be cancelled when it was written) and wishing that it was carried on an extra episode, at least. One small gripe I had with the last four or five episodes is that I never really got along with Ilyria - I really liked Fred as a character. However, if you don't cry in Wesleys final scene of Not Fade Away, then I don't think you are human. ;)
BDW, I have been assured by a friend who reads the comics that Angel did get his dragon :D
Best. Ending. Ever.
Review date: 2008-02-23 Rating: 10 out of 10
Rarely have I been as disappointed to learn that a show had been cancelled as I was with Angel, it was easily one of the best shows in the genre and by season 5 it was eclipsing it's parent show Buffy on a regular basis. But all good things must come to an end, and when they do try to make them end like this.
OK, so at the end of season 4 we saw Angel and co join and agree to run their evil enemy, the law firm Wolram&Hart. Now it's obvious to both the characters and the audience that this is an attempt to corrupt them and bring them onto Wolfram&Hart's side for real, this is handled very well and actually quite subtely in the show so that you start noticing little differences long before the major plot points show up around it. There's lots of interesting thematic examinations around the concept of how far you can go into the darkness before it gets to you, something we've already seen Wesley go through in previous seasons but which is equally interesting now since all the characters are effected differently, with different consequenes for the group and themselves. As this is the final season of the show it's where we get to see everyone's character arcs get wound up, and it's a compliment to the writers that they manage to make the same set of events provide material for the show's conclusion but also keep everyone's personal arc seperate and distinct. Wesley, unsurprisingly, remains the most tragic story in the series with this season pushing him even further than season 4, his concluding scenes are an act of nihilistic tradgedy that act as the perfect antithesis of his orginal clown-like role and are by far the saddest moments of the series.
The final season also contains the return of some of the series' best characters, most of whom are a major plot reveal and so I won't spoil them for you, but since James Marsters is in the opening credits it's not mutch of a spoiler to say that Spike is back in town. Spike forms a major part of the show this season, acting as a great irritant to Angel whilst also carrying a couple of episodes on his own ('Hell Bound' and 'Damage' are two of the series' scarriest episodes by far and both rest heavily on Marsters).
This season of Angel is, as previosly stated, the last. Thankfully the writers were aware of this and have managed to give Angel a proper ending rather than the sudden death of Firefly. The final episode, appropriatly named 'Not Fade Away', gives a definite and satisfying conclusion to all of the character arcs and provides the series as a whole with a pretty solid finale both in terms of plot and thematcally. The end of Angel feels like it comes all too soon, but that doesn't stop it being one of the best endings of any television show in recent memory.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Alexis Denisof
James Marsters
J. August Richards
David Boreanaz
Andy Hallett
Creators:
David Boreanaz (Primary Contributor)
Alexis Denisof (Primary Contributor)
Recording label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
EAN: 5039036022903
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 6
Format: Colour, PAL,
Release date: 2006-05-08
Aspect ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 911 minutes
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: Swedish (Subtitled)
Language: Norwegian (Subtitled)
Language: Finnish (Subtitled)
Language: Danish (Subtitled)
Language: English (Original Language)