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.

Eliza steals the show

Season 4 of Angel IMO is one of the best if not the best season of the entire show, with maybe only season 2 over it. As noted the highlight of the season though would have to be the return of Eliza Dushku as Faith. This is why I wish FOX would include the show trailers on the DVD because before it aired TheWB tagged this kick butt "Faith Returns," promo to the end of the previous episode. Then who can forget Alyson Hannigan's return as Willow? These three episodes were superb and the first reason I love season 4.

Next we have the early stories of season 4, the very funny "Spin the Bottle," which will have a commentary by Joss and Alexis on the set falls in this season. "Deep Down," Angel's return from the Deep Blue, and the first appearance of Gwen Raiden, a huge fan favorite.

I wasn't a particular fan of the Jasmine arc of late season 4 the first time I watched it but I watched it recently again on TNT and it works a lot better when you don't have to wait to see these episodes. I loved pretty much everything I watched. The one EWWW part of the season is of course the Conner and Cordy sex, but it's only for one episode and I didn't even mind evil Cordy, although I thought the return of Angelus should have meant something, he didn't even kill an essential character! Ah well.... overall I still highly recommend this season and if you're an Angel fan it's definitely worth owning on DVD.

Denisof, Romanov steal the show

Picking up where its amazing 3rd Season left off, Season 4 of TV's Angel was without a doubt the most shocking, dramatic and intriguing. Despite a few creative low points, the cast and crew rose to the challenge of Angel's new full fledged story-arch format, with all 22 episodes weaving together to create one feature-length episode.
The season deals with issues such as fascism, religious persecution and world peace brilliantly, staying subtle, yet getting the message across perfectly. However, the season's real highlight is the shocking relationship between Wesley (Alexis Denisof) and Lilah (Stephanie Romanov), creating one of the series' most eerie, dysfunctional and altogether fascinating relationships.

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I love Angel and give it a 5 cos' it is excellent but one major annoyance for me is that it kills me that we can't buy the DVD on the States but here in the UK they have all the seasons for sale so much earler on than in the States. Unfortunately even though i live here temporarily (military) i only own a US DVD player. Whats up with this!!! The shows made in the states but you have to go to the UK to pick a copy of it up.