Archive for December 18th, 2007
Just Finished Angel
And as someone who watched the series all the way through over the last few months let me just re-issue my hatred for a network that canceled a show during the best season in its run.
There are plenty of complaints about the show… the second half of season 3 and the entirety of season 4 sucked, but they came back with a vengeance in season five and put together one of the strongest walk years in the history of television. In baseball terms, Season 5 of Angel was like A-Rod’s 2007 in terms of contract years. No one picking this show up for a sixth season was a tragedy… especially considering what (I’m Sure) Fox filled their schedule up the following year.
I’ve called the series finale of Angel one of the top ten worst ever for how they left the characters. It was the early version of the Sopranos ending. The characters are left in an alley facing a horde of demons. In the context of the show, all five season, it fits. The fight is never over. Their fight was never going to be over.
I used to call it one of the top ten worst finales of all time. I rescind that. I now call it the worst cancellation in the history of television.