Angel Season Five By JoadsShovel on Nov 02, 2007 - Updated Oct 15, 2011

The last, but fortunately the best season of Angel saw budget cuts and cast additions/reductions behind the camera, and a move to (of all places) the newly refurbished offices of Wolfram and Hart for the Angel Investigations team. the return of Spike, while potentially a misstep, is handled humorously and well, setting up some great buddy-cop situations between him and Angel. I wouldn't dare spoil the most heartbreaking "character change" of the season, but rest assured that the story surrounding it is one of the series' best. Having to handle a reformatting at the network's request, Joss Whedon and company brilliantly reshape the series in such a confident way that you would have no idea of the troubles I described had I not just described them to you. Having been abruptly cancelled (just after their 100th episode...shame), the ending is sudden but very fitting, with a finale which is complete, inspiring, and tear-inducing at the same time. Look out for the IDW official canon comic series "Angel: After the Fall", which continues the "cliffhanger ending" and fleshes out a season 6.