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Angel: Season Two

When we last left our “dark avenger,” he had just discovered in the Shanshu Prophesy that he would some day become human if he continued on his path of do-gooding. The last season ended with Angel Investigations (the building) in ruins; Gunn, Cordelia and Wesley joining Angel’s team; and the evil law firm Wolfram and Hart bringing back a monster from Angel’s past.

Season Two opens with Angel mistakenly killing a pregnant woman’s guardian, then trying to find a way to protect her. He resorts to help from a good demon named Lorne who runs a karaoke bar (which is how we discover Angel’s affinity for Barry Manilow). Lorne can read a person, or demon’s, future when they sing, so the audience is forced to listen to Angel singing.

After the gang finds an old hotel to house the new and improved Angel Investigations, Angel starts to change. His friends notice that he’s getting restless and spends most of his free time sleeping. What they don’t know is that the monster Wolfram and Hart brought back was the person who sired (made a vampire) Angel and is torturing Angel in his dreams. His growing attachment to Darla (his sire) widens the gap between him and his friends. Finally, his friends desert him when he fully retreats into his and Darla’s problems. Darla was brought back from the beyond, but she was brought back as her 17th Century self -- a whore dying of syphilis.

Another dangerous vampire is brought to LA turn Darla, and Angel takes them both on by himself. He works for the rest of the season to regain his friends’ trust, until the end of the season when everyone is transported to Lorne’s home dimension of Pylea where they rescue a human, start a revolution and manage to implement changes to the slave government.

Season two was good as far as the outside storylines are concerned, but the main story surrounding Angel -- his descent into darkness (not evil) due to Darla’s reappearance gets old fast and lasts way too long. Once Angel lights Darla on fire, things pick up and the storyline gets interesting.

Written by: Tracy Elledge

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