Product description

Angel - Season 2 (Box Set 2) [2000]

Price: £3.29
RRP: £34.99
Average customer rating: 5.0

Binding : VHS Tape
EAN : 5039036006804
Label : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Publisher : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release date : 2001-08-20
Title : Angel - Season 2 (Box Set 2) [2000]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Suitable for 15 years and over
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 3
Original release date : 2000-01-07
Running time : 459
Studio : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical releaseDate : 1999-10-05
Number of discs : 3

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
As with the first half of the second season of Angel, the second part moves further into the darkness with only touches of humour relieving the bracing depression. Angel's despairing rage at his failure to save his former love Darla from being turned vampire again dominates the first few episodes here; brilliantly performed by David Boreanaz, our brooding vampire with a soul deprives himself of the human contacts which keep him sane and goes into some dark places both in his soul and the gloomy LA he inhabits. Meanwhile, his former comrades continue to fight the good fight against evil even though their only super-power is Cordelia's progressively more painful visions, coping with families of corrupt magicians, fire-breathing demons and zombie cops, but living on borrowed time. In an episode that lets Charisma Carpenter rediscover her comic roots, Cordelia finds herself settling accounts with her former friend the vampire Harmony; the evil lawyer Lindsay discovers the limits to his corruption and a sort of redemption. And in a four-part finale, the group's friendship with the green karaoke demon Lorne sends them off to his home dimension to rescue Cordelia, right wrongs and acquire an important new character... --Roz Kaveney

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2004-09-06 rating:

Best in show
Of all the box sets forming this wonderful series, this has to be considered the best. We see the sheer grit of dark angel, the tension relieving moments with his former employees, and a trully fantastic season closing arc.
The Angel we see here is no longer the dark avenger he started as. We're now dealing with a different beast with a score to settle, and there are pretty much no boundaries left for him to cross. He even goes as far to put his soul on the line in 'epiphany', which does exactly what it says on the tin.
As for the other characters, Wesley's transformation away from geek to a man of (somewhat) authority. Gunn becomes a little more bearable, and Cordy continues to grow as a person. Which is a shame.
The producers also introduce us to Fred, a regular from the third season, who provides some interest and a sense of potential that, sadly as is often the case with this show, is not fulfilled later.
Calling this Angels 'jump the shark' moment may be a little unfair to seasons 3 and 4, but the sheer quality of these episodes prompts me to say it anyway. Cherish this time with your favourite champion. After this, the roads just going to get rockier.

Go on, let me say it:

"There's no place like home!"

review by: We're all Frankies' date: 2002-10-22 rating:

Where Angel got really good...
The first series of Angel took awhile to get going, though this wasn't helped by the juvenile approach taken to transmission by Channel 4 when they broadcasted it. When you watch it again, it becomes apparent that it is a much darker prospect than Buffy and reminds you of Gram Parson's classic ode to the corruption prevalent in LA, Sin City.

As with a series like Frasier (another spin off), Angel became stronger in the second series- reliying less on cameos by Buffy cast members (though there is an excellent episode in the second season that rivals Buffy's third season The Becoming, where we meet Darla (Angel's sire) in more detail, having seen her several times before. Spike & Druisilla pop up in the same episode, while Dru is part of the dark games between Wolf&Hart and Angel...). Cordelia is a much more interesting, fragile prospect- despite the rather silly transference of psychic power in Season 1. Wesley & Gunn are equally excellent characters, Angel becoming as strong as Buffy- this season is as strongly written as Buffy's excellent 5th season. My only gripe is the move away from the darkness of Wolf&Hart/Darla/corruption to the final episodes- which descend into Xena/Hercules style fantasy. This is not so good- and is a strain that has turned up in the dew third season episodes I've seen- suggesting that Angel's future doesn't look so wonderful (the latest Buffy season, no.6, has also been very hit&miss).Having said that, the first of the fantasy episodes remembers that Cordelia came to LA to become an actress (something forgotten since the 1st episode) and puts here in a bikini- which is nice.

The second season of Angel is where it got really good and on a similar level to the show from which it originated- making it a more than enjoyable purchase and amongst the best programmes on TV...

review by: date: 2002-04-11 rating:

absolutly fab a must have for any angel fan
Wow, it seams that the angel series just gets better and better. and season two just keeps you on the edge of your seat. what with angel going all dark and the darla and drusilla twosome this seasson really does have everything! unfortunatly for me though i haven't got sky so i'v now got to wait forever for season three but i'll be first in line believe me! so what are you waiting for buy it now!

review by: date: 2002-03-26 rating:

Brilliant!!
These episodes of the second series far outweigh the episodes featured in the first season. Angel descends further into darkness but experiences an epiphany with the help of Darla. What follows is his attempt to win back the trust of his group particularly Cordelia. The episodes in which the gang find themselves sucked into a dimension called Pilea combine the best elements of this show. Plenty of humour, loads of action and oh yeah a few cute Angel moments.

review by: date: 2002-03-23 rating:

An out-of-this-world finale
The high-points of this second season of "Angel" have been: The Host, whatever he says or does is just brilliant; the relationship between Angel and Cordelia, from solid friendship and love to cold, hard animosity and back again and, the continually growing respect and friendship between Angel and Wesley. I didn't like the way the team dissolved so quickly but I did like the fact that they didn't stay parted for long. The four-part finale exploring The Host's world and introducing soon-to-be new regular Fred was a bold and exciting step away from the usual format, and I think it worked very well.
My favourite episodes from Season Two were: Judgement, First Impressions, Untouched, Dear Boy, Darla, Reunion, Redefinition, Happy Anniversary, Epiphany, Dead End and the four-part season finale - Belonging, Over the Rainbow, Through the Looking Glass and There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb.

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