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Herc Gives ANGEL 5.5 Four Stars!!

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Angel 5.5 FAQ

What’s it called?

“Life of the Party.”

Who’s responsible?

“The Tick” creator Ben Edlund (“Sacrifice”).

What’s did Coax say about this one back in August?

* The episode centers around the big Wolfram & Hart Halloween party.

* The episode also centers to large degree around the firm’s resident Pylean karaoke demon, Krevlornswath of the Deathwok Clan.

* The episode may remind some a bit of “Forbidden Planet,” only funnier, and with fewer spaceships.

* Spike remains confined to his ghostly form.

* Eve, Team Angel’s liaison to the firm’s “senior partners,” will arrive at the party wearing her tightest, sexiest outfit to date.

* Eve and Angel end up making out with each other.

* An amusingly loutish and poorly spoken demon named Devlin will come to the party costumed as a human.

Did Coax’s sources get it right?

Yes. Though Eve and Angel do a good deal more together than make out.

The big news?

Fred psuedo-drunkunly decides which Wolfram staffer will be her boyfriend (breaking, it seems, another Wolfram staffer’s heart).

What else is TV Guide not telling us?

This is easily the best installment of “Angel” since the season opener. Herc laughed loudly at several junctures. Do you think this is something that happens every day?

Who is Sebassis?

A “demon arch-duke.”

Why is Krevlornswath anxious for Sebassis to attend?

If he comes, Lorne explains, “all the other glitterati will just domino in right behind him.”

And why is it important for the glitterati to domino?

“We gotta show all the big bads that the new regime is here to stay,” explains Charles Gunn, “which, for the most part, boils down to image. And image-wise, if this party doesn’t kick ass, we lose face.”

Why is Sebassis initially reticent to attend?

Everyone thinks Angel is just inviting people to the party so he can slaughter them.

Assuming Krevlornswath’s id is unleashed, what causes the unleashing?

Lorne underwent a 20-minute Wolfram procedure to have his “sleep removed.” Unbeknownst however to Lorne, if one takes away an empath demon’s sleep, his ability to read destinies mutates into an ability to write destinies. (This episode is very similar to that fourth-season “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” installment in which Willow causes Giles to go blind and Ms. Summers agrees to become Mrs. William the Bloody.)

What’s good?

Lots and lots. Sebassis’ beverage decanter. Devlin pretending to be human. “Peepee!” Demon on the potty. The drunken Winifred. Eve, naked and cowering. “Lord, I hope so.” “I went to UC Santa Cruz.”

What’s not so good?

I would have made Sebassis more overtly fearful of Angel. And they probably could have figured out something better to do with Spike.

How does it end, spoiler-boy?

Angel tucks Lorne in.

Herc’s rating for “Angel” 5.5?

****

The Hercules T. Strong Rating System:

***** better than we deserve

**** better than most motion pictures

*** actually worth your valuable time

** as horrible as most stuff on TV

* makes you quietly pray for bulletins

9 p.m. Wednesday. The WB.

Swing the crebbil! Swing the crebbil!

I am – Hercules!!





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First
by Led Gopher
Oct 29th, 2003
09:51:14 AM
first and give it up
by Too Much Time
Oct 29th, 2003
09:54:33 AM
First? Second? Third ?
by JacenSolo2001
Oct 29th, 2003
10:34:39 AM
Hazaah!
by coop
Oct 29th, 2003
10:44:23 AM
Maybe there is no more curse
by MiserableRainGod
Oct 29th, 2003
10:51:47 AM
That's going to be lame if Lorelei starts dating her dads bidnes
by JackDonkey
Oct 29th, 2003
10:52:54 AM
angel can have sex
by TAE3001
Oct 29th, 2003
01:01:43 PM
Hey "GreatOne"
by Stoney-321
Oct 29th, 2003
02:25:58 PM
Fred's Vagina
by Fart_Master_Flex
Oct 29th, 2003
02:55:45 PM
to GreatOne:
by 93curr
Oct 29th, 2003
04:09:19 PM
to Stoney321:
by 93curr
Oct 29th, 2003
04:13:52 PM
and over on Smallville.......
by ZeusXerxes
Oct 29th, 2003
04:16:29 PM
MICHAEL MCKEAN PLAYS PERRY WHITE ON "SMALLVILLE" TONIGHT!
by alvinsimadeer
Oct 29th, 2003
05:07:00 PM
Weedon is STILL the man
by Danger Mouse
Oct 29th, 2003
05:47:45 PM
One Last time...
by coop
Oct 29th, 2003
06:26:41 PM
The Undiscovered Country
by Electric_Monk
Oct 29th, 2003
07:48:35 PM
AS GOOD AS THE PREMIERE?
by cooper2000
Oct 29th, 2003
07:48:35 PM
Doggy style on TV
by Hamlet3145
Oct 29th, 2003
09:43:11 PM
four starts....
by thewoodpecker
Oct 29th, 2003
10:11:40 PM
Ep sucked, but SPIKE RULEZ!!!
by EnigmaLovesSpike
Oct 29th, 2003
10:13:40 PM
Agreed... best epsiode so far....
by buckna
Oct 29th, 2003
10:16:02 PM
Well...
by zer0cool2k2
Oct 29th, 2003
10:31:37 PM
Disco tune Lorne was singing
by miketuttle
Oct 29th, 2003
10:47:18 PM
Angel is one lucky bastard
by Calm_b4_the_Strm
Oct 29th, 2003
11:04:31 PM
"Harmony, is it a sodding breadbox?"
by JTylor
Oct 29th, 2003
11:08:05 PM
?Matsuda?/Oh.....
by Miriam
Oct 29th, 2003
11:08:28 PM
Best of the season so far.
by Wicker Joe
Oct 29th, 2003
11:27:08 PM
I'm liking this season
by Whedon
Oct 29th, 2003
11:57:56 PM
Blah Blah Whedon rules Blah Blah Blah
by ZeroCorpse
Oct 30th, 2003
12:12:00 AM
Zero Corpse eat a dick
by Whedon
Oct 30th, 2003
01:08:57 AM
What a shocker
by BiPolarBear
Oct 30th, 2003
01:11:25 AM
Oh and that disco tune...
by BiPolarBear
Oct 30th, 2003
01:13:07 AM
Did anybody catch the great Tick reference?
by DomisInnerChild
Oct 30th, 2003
02:47:54 AM
Great ep
by Daryl van Horn
Oct 30th, 2003
03:22:11 AM
my thoughts on tonight's ep
by allnamesaretaken
Oct 30th, 2003
04:26:58 AM
I want to get down on my knees and serve you, Jesus...
by Stoney-321
Oct 30th, 2003
10:30:32 AM
5 stars?
by cooper2000
Oct 30th, 2003
12:13:51 PM
All this talk about Christianity in the Buffy Verse
by ILUVmyspike
Oct 30th, 2003
01:34:33 PM
PP
by bedidi
Oct 30th, 2003
06:25:58 PM
Gunn marking territory
by jello1235
Oct 30th, 2003
07:09:07 PM
Worst of the season so far
by sfer1
Oct 30th, 2003
11:15:30 PM
Four stars? Are you mad?
by SG7
Oct 30th, 2003
11:55:35 PM
4 stars? Sorry Herc, but this one was one of the worst Angels ev
by jules windex
Oct 31st, 2003
03:47:49 AM
What is going on...
by mrfan
Oct 31st, 2003
06:24:44 AM
"Lorne SMASH!!"
by Devil'sOwn
Oct 31st, 2003
10:36:04 PM
Getting Better
by Bobby_Drake
Nov 1st, 2003
03:13:03 AM
angel
by Clauswitz
Nov 1st, 2003
11:52:03 AM
You know what would be nice?
by Leopardghost
Nov 1st, 2003
06:40:51 PM

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