Angel - Season Four (Slim Set)
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Actor: David BoreanazDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: Box set, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 990 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Angel - Season Four (Slim Set)
Movie Review: This is the worst season of any show I've ever managed to finish, and that's not an exaggeration
Summary: 1 Stars
I got into Angel as a Buffy fan, I imagine that's true of most people. I watched seasons 1-3 and liked them well enough to buy and start season 4.
The problem is, season 4 is terrible. Its all about Connor and Angel, probably the 2 weakest characters and definately the weakest relationship in either series. Darla is gone. Cordelia is gone. Lorne and Gunn play increased rolls, badly. Wesley is alienated from the others, minimizing the strongest character on the show. Every single episode for an entire season is just Angel and Connor fighting, and everyone else being pissed at Wesley. I know that sounds impossible, but its true
The whole thing, from start to finish, is a disaster. The only reason I finished it, and I mean ONLY, was that my brother made it through and said season 5 was a million times better, which is is. Even with that encouragement it took me several months to make it through this set. By comparison, I finished seasons 1-3 in less than a month, combined
Honestly, unless you're the biggest Angel fan around, there is absolutely no reason to watch season 4 of this show. Its like the worst episode of any other season, stretched out to be a whole season long. If I had not already invested 10 seasons worth of watching, between Buffy and Angel, and if I hadn't foolishly bought Season 4 before I realized how terrible it was, I never would have finished it
This season alone is enough reason to stay away from the entire series. Unlike Buffy, where seasons 2-4 are the best and the first half of 5 is ok, then the 2nd half of 6 and all of 7 are terrible, with Angel, the first season is rocky, 2 and 3 are ok, 4 is beyond bad, and 5 is great. And its just not worth wading through all that to get to the great part at the end. With Buffy you get the good right up front and that's easier to justify, but I would honestly reccomend that no one even bother with the entire series Angel, because season 4 is so incredibly awful.
Joss basically admits it himself because season 5 has absolutely no Connor in it, and next to no Lorne in it. Plus they bring Spike and throw out the idea that Angel can't be happy or he turns evil, revamp Fred's character, bring back the best bad guy the show ever had, etc
All the is Joss's way of saying "yeah, i know it was terrible, please forgive me" about the previous season. He did the exact same thing in Buffy, trying to bribe you into forgetting about season 6 by completely changing everything in season 7, bringing Giles and Faith back, etc. In both cases it was too little, too late
Anyway, I know this is a little disjointed as reviews go, but the bottom line is that you should avoid this at absolutely all costs. If you just absolutely love Angel, skip this season and go straight to season 5. I promise you it will hardly even matter, there's next to no reference to the events of season 4 during season 5 anyway
Summary of Angel - Season Four (Slim Set)
As the fourth season of Angel starts, everything is still as we left it: Angel has been sunk to the bottom of the sea in an iron box by his inexplicable and vindictive son Connor and Cordelia has been summoned to higher realms to await orders. Gunn and Fred are left in the Hyperion Hotel, unsure about what has happened to their friends, and Lilah is working hard to seduce Wesley to the dark side. In the first few episodes, some of this is resolved but it's almost immediately replaced by far worse crises: prophesies of doom accumulate more rapidly even than usual in this wonderfully gloomy show and a horned rock-like beast rains fire on Los Angeles. This last year is Angel's most tightly dramatic season yet--with a story arc of surprising intensity punctuated by the show's usual wit and sexiness.Season 4 is presented on DVD in Dolby 2.0 Surround Sound and anamorphic widescreen. It comes with insightful, and often hilarious, commentaries on seven of the 22 episodes as well as featurettes--a series overview, profiles of the characters of Jasmine and the Beast, a farewell to the Hyperion Hotel (the characters' base for three seasons), and a discussion of the apocalypse that Angel has to deal with from episode 7 onwards). --Roz Kaveney
With both Angel and Cordelia still missing, Fred, Gunn and Connor try to keep Angel Investigations running while they search for their friends. Ironically, the man who everyone believes betrayed Angel is the one who finally comes to Angel's rescue. Then Cordelia mysteriously reappears with no memory of her life or her friends. Confused, she chooses to take refuge with Connor?setting into motion events that will alter their lives forever.
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