UPDATE: Well, dang. Fox takes "The Tick" off for good after tonight, and now the WB, at the last minute, pre-empts the best "Angel" ever -- for a repeat of its craptastic "Glory Days" pilot. Ignore what we say below, and ignore your print edition of TV Guide. No "Angel" for you tonight.
I don't have the heart to delete this post, since it's already accumulated some actual talkback. So everybody please just please ignore the post below and go ahead and read the talkbacks and we'll just try to get on with our lives.
As kind of a do-over, though, here's a very marginally related but kind of cool article about, in part, an English professor who's got a book about "Buffy" coming out next month.
OKAY, BACK TO MY ORIGINAL, NO-LONGER-VERY-TIMELY POST:
Q. What is the “Angel” equivalent of “Hush,” “Restless,” “The Body,” or “Once More With Feeling?”
A. “Through the Looking Glass.” Which airs Thursday at 8 p.m. on the WB.
To say again: The best episode of “Angel” yet aired airs on the WB tonight, opposite “Family Guy,” “Smackdown,” “Who’s Line is it Anyway?” and repeats of “Friends” and “CSI.”
This "Angel" is the reason Herc will probably never, ever be able to stop watching "Angel."
Yes, technically it’s a repeat. And here’s part of the FAQ we put together when it first aired way back in May:
Angel 2.21 FAQ
Who’s responsible?
As kind of a do-over, though, here's a very marginally related but kind of cool article about, in part, an English professor who's got a book about "Buffy" coming out next month.
OKAY, BACK TO MY ORIGINAL, NO-LONGER-VERY-TIMELY POST:
Q. What is the “Angel” equivalent of “Hush,” “Restless,” “The Body,” or “Once More With Feeling?”
A. “Through the Looking Glass.” Which airs Thursday at 8 p.m. on the WB.
To say again: The best episode of “Angel” yet aired airs on the WB tonight, opposite “Family Guy,” “Smackdown,” “Who’s Line is it Anyway?” and repeats of “Friends” and “CSI.”
This "Angel" is the reason Herc will probably never, ever be able to stop watching "Angel."
Yes, technically it’s a repeat. And here’s part of the FAQ we put together when it first aired way back in May:
Angel 2.21 FAQ
Who’s responsible?
Q. What is the “Angel” equivalent of “Hush,” “Restless,” “The Body,” or “Once More With Feeling?”
A. “Through the Looking Glass.” Which airs Thursday at 8 p.m. on the WB.
To say again: The best episode of “Angel” yet aired airs on the WB tonight, opposite “Family Guy,” “Smackdown,” “Who’s Line is it Anyway?” and repeats of “Friends” and “CSI.”
This "Angel" is the reason Herc will probably never, ever be able to stop watching "Angel."
Yes, technically it’s a repeat. And here’s part of the FAQ we put together when it first aired way back in May:
Angel 2.21 FAQ
Who’s responsible?
To say again: The best episode of “Angel” yet aired airs on the WB tonight, opposite “Family Guy,” “Smackdown,” “Who’s Line is it Anyway?” and repeats of “Friends” and “CSI.”
This "Angel" is the reason Herc will probably never, ever be able to stop watching "Angel."
Yes, technically it’s a repeat. And here’s part of the FAQ we put together when it first aired way back in May:
Angel 2.21 FAQ
Who’s responsible?
Yes, technically it’s a repeat. And here’s part of the FAQ we put together when it first aired way back in May:
Angel 2.21 FAQ
Who’s responsible?
Who’s responsible?
Episode was written and directed by Tim Minear (who has written or co-written something like a quarter of all “Angel” episodes, including the first two with the non-flashback Dru and “Epiphany.”
What does TV Guide say?
“Angel and friends work overtime to survive in a foreign dimension. Cordelia discovers her dirty duty as Princess of Pylea is to mate with a creature called the Groosalugg (Mark Lutz). She's unable to escape the palace with Wesley and Gunn, and the priests keeping watch over her also prove to be less than trustworthy. Meanwhile, Angel gets himself into trouble with the Host's family when he refuses to kill a human woman (Amy Acker) who went missing from L.A. years before.”
The big news?
Glory help me, this may be the best episode of “Angel” ever produced! 2.21 is not only wildly engaging, enormously propulsive, compellingly romantic and blessed with inspired left-field plotting, it’s absolutely brimming with precision, high-octane comedy.
Fuck! Is is better than tonight’s “Buffy”?
Oh yeah.
What’s TV Guide not telling us?
Cordy spends the episode in a royal outfit that covers marginally less than the bikini she wore a few episodes ago. Angel gets to see his own haircut (!) for the first time. Music is like Kryptonite to the Deathwok Clan. And we are just scratchin’ the surface, baby!
Why does the gang decide the priests can’t be trusted?
The priests looking after Cordy have three holy books. Etched upon their covers are a wolf, a ram, and a hart.
Why does Angel come into conflict with the Deathwok clan again?
He refuses the honor of swinging the crebbil at the bach-nal!
Why does the Deathwok clan want the crebbil swung?
They’re hungry.
Was that Fred, the physics student, we saw talking to Cordy last week?
Yes. The very cute Winifred is back this week and seems to be evolving into a nifty romantic interest for the show’s title character.
What’s good?
Too much to get into here, but a couple of highlights include Cordy’s reaction to Wes’s escape plan and Cordy’s first meeting with her intended mate, the Groosalugg! Hi-larious!
What’s not so good?
Why on Pylea didn’t Krevlornwath employ the musical Kryptonite when the gang needed it last week?
Any signs of Dru or Darla?
You wish!
Is the Krevlornswath thing next week’s TV Guide describes in evidence tonight?
Yes. In the final shot.
Are there surprises Herc’s not even hinting at?
Oh yeah.
Herc’s rating for “Angel” 2.21?
****
Swing the crebbil! Swing the crebbil!
