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Herc Gives ANGEL 5.5 Four Stars!!
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I am – Hercules!!
Angel 5.5 FAQ
What’s it called?
“Life of the Party.”
Who’s responsible?
“The Tick” creator Ben Edlund (“Sacrifice”).
* 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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Reader Talkback
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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