The WORST episodes of Angel

Every episode of Angel ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Angel!

Angel, a 240-year old vampire cursed with a conscience, haunts the dark streets of Los Angeles alone. But after he meets a half-demon with mysterious visions, Angel realizes his true purpose: to help those in danger with the hope that he may have a chance to redeem himself and save his own soul. With Cordelia and Doyle at his side, he forms Angel Investigations. He is soon joined by Wesley, Gunn, Lorne and Fred, and he will need all their expertise to fight the growing forces of evil, and the supernatural law firm of Wolfram and Hart.

Last Updated: 12/25/2023Network: The WBStatus: Ended
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The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco
star
6.85
643 votes

#1 - The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/2003

While losing heart for his own career as a hero, Angel befriends a disheartened, elderly hero, and battles an Aztec warrior who literally eats the hearts of heroes.

Directors: Jeffrey Bell
Writer: Jeffrey Bell
Watch Now:Apple TV
Unleashed
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7.28
654 votes

#2 - Unleashed

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/2003

Angel tries to help a young woman who has been turned into a werewolf and is being pursued by a group of truly rarified gourmets.

Directors: Marita Grabiak
Watch Now:Apple TV
Provider
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7.29
550 votes

#3 - Provider

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/2002

Fred solves a puzzle for a group of demons who literally want to buy her brain; Angel is hired to clean out a vampire nest by a man who can't afford to pay for Angel's services; Wes and Gunn help a woman whose dead boyfriend is stalking her.

Directors: Michael Grossman
Writer: Scott Murphy
Watch Now:Apple TV
I Fall to Pieces
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7.29
872 votes

#4 - I Fall to Pieces

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1999

A desperate young woman pleads for Angel's help, as her disembodied stalker grows more violent. Meanwhile Doyle goes to work with Melissa.

Watch Now:Apple TV
Double or Nothing
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7.31
545 votes

#5 - Double or Nothing

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/22/2002

When a demon that Gunn once sold his soul to comes to collect on the debt, Angel, Fred and Cordelia help to save him.

Directors: David Grossman
Watch Now:Apple TV
Soul Purpose
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7.34
642 votes

#6 - Soul Purpose

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/21/2004

When Spike is talked into taking up the good-deeds business, Eve lets loose a soul sucking parasite on Angel, who then suffers disturbing feverish hallucinations as he sleeps.

Directors: David Boreanaz
Watch Now:Apple TV
Why We Fight
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7.35
564 votes

#7 - Why We Fight

Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/11/2004

A World War II submarine sailor - the only man Angel ever turned into a vampire since regaining his soul - returns to seek his revenge.

Directors: Terrence O'Hara
Watch Now:Apple TV
Heartthrob
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7.37
693 votes

#8 - Heartthrob

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2001

As Angel mourns Buffy's death, he battles a lovelorn vampire seeking revenge for the death of his beloved, who was killed by Angel.

Directors: David Greenwalt
Watch Now:Apple TV
Slouching Toward Bethlehem
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7.37
585 votes

#9 - Slouching Toward Bethlehem

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/2002

After Cordelia returns, she doesn't remember her friends and Lorne senses a major evil brewing. Scared by the world of demons and vampires, Cordelia takes refuge with Connor, who saves her from a demon attack.

Directors: Skip Schoolnik
Writer: Jeffrey Bell
Watch Now:Apple TV
The Shroud of Rahmon
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7.38
693 votes

#10 - The Shroud of Rahmon

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/2000

Angel goes undercover with the help of the witty and street smart Gunn in order to prevent a mind-altering shroud from falling into the wrong hands.

Directors: David Grossman
Writer: Jim Kouf
Watch Now:Apple TV
That Vision Thing
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7.38
606 votes

#11 - That Vision Thing

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2001

Lilah coerces Angel to help in securing the release of a prisoner that The Powers That Be have locked in a fiery prison.

Directors: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Jeffrey Bell
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That Old Gang of Mine
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7.39
695 votes

#12 - That Old Gang of Mine

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2001

Gunn's loyalties are torn between his current demon-hunting associates and the gang he used to hang out with, which has taken to killing demons for fun instead of defense.

Directors: Fred Keller
Writer: Tim Minear
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Harm's Way
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7.41
649 votes

#13 - Harm's Way

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/14/2004

When Harmony wakes up next to a dead man with vampire bites in his neck, she's afraid she lost her head and killed him... but she can't remember doing it.

Directors: Vern Gillum
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Dad
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7.43
560 votes

#14 - Dad

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/2001

Angel tries to keep his son safe from the many demons, vampires and humans who would like to harm the baby; Holtz joins forces with another vampire slayer.

Directors: Fred Keller
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Billy
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7.43
612 votes

#15 - Billy

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/2001

Angel's friends are affected by a man with the power to make other men brutalise women.

Directors: David Grossman
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Expecting
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7.44
878 votes

#16 - Expecting

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/25/2000

After a one-night stand, Cordelia wakes up to find herself extremely pregnant with something extremely unnatural.

Directors: David Semel
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Underneath
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7.45
699 votes

#17 - Underneath

Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/14/2004

Angel, Gunn and Spike rescue Lindsey from a suburban hell dimension; Lorne and Eve are pursued by a representative of the senior partners; and Wesley consoles Illyria, who hates her new world.

Directors: Skip Schoolnik
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Life of the Party
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7.46
742 votes

#18 - Life of the Party

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2003

Strange things happen when Lorne has his sleep removed right before Wolfram and Hart's big Halloween party.

Directors: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Ben Edlund
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Shiny Happy People
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7.46
609 votes

#19 - Shiny Happy People

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/9/2003

While everyone else worships the beautiful woman Cordelia bore, Fred sees another side of her.

Directors: Marita Grabiak
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Blind Date
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7.48
850 votes

#20 - Blind Date

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/16/2000

Angel must break into Wolfram and Hart to prevent an assassin from carrying out her deadly mission.

Directors: Tom Wright
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Damage
star
7.49
593 votes

#21 - Damage

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/28/2004

A deranged vampire slayer is convinced that spike is the man who kidnapped and tortured her when she was a child.

Directors: Jefferson Kibbee
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Lonely Heart
star
7.50
1059 votes

#22 - Lonely Heart

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/1999

Angel, with the aid of a new friend, tracks a serial killer whose hunting ground is L.A.'s single bars.

Directors: James A. Contner
Writer: David Fury
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She
star
7.50
891 votes

#23 - She

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/8/2000

Angel forms a tenuous truce with a warrior demon in order to save refugees from another dimension.

Directors: David Greenwalt
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Couplet
star
7.51
559 votes

#24 - Couplet

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/18/2002

Angel struggles with his jealousy of the Groosalugg and Cordelia's attraction to him; Gunn and Fred get captured by a tree monster.

Directors: Tim Minear
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Lineage
star
7.51
705 votes

#25 - Lineage

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2003

When Wesley's father visits Wolfram and Hart, the firm is attacked by a troop of spooky Ninja cyborgs.

Directors: Jefferson Kibbee
Writer: Drew Goddard
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