General thoughts and ratings for Angel 5.9, "Harm's Way"

There will not be a review tomorrow! Superhero Girl will be so happy. Tomorrow I will be on a train! And then in a car! So my weekend will be filled with work and activity.

Also, I need new underclothes, like, bad.


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Well that was nice and pointless. Seriously. Here's a line to sum it up: Office jealousy, but with monsters and with Harmony, so that makes it a perfect episode for Angel. There was no point at all to this episode. Why did they bother? Its whole point was to show that Harmony is not an outcast in the firm. Great! Except ... when were we supposed to think she was? There was no build up at all to this, the problem was created and solved within the episode. We met new people who we will never have to think about or care about again, and even if these demons were to later become important, this intro would still be completely unnecessary. And who was that chick? Who cares?

At first, I liked this episode, because it was light and fun. I like Harmony. (And I've never tried to say otherwise!) But eventually the banality of the whole thing overwhelmed me.

I liked the entirely and wholly bizarre little skit in the beginning, but if I may channel Television Without Pity for a moment, that would have been good in the first episode, not the ninth. Do we have to explain the premise in every episode? [brain cries ]

The Spike Is Creepy factor was through the roof in this episode. I was utterly skeeved, and after he left the screen, I felt like I need a shower and a wire brush. I hope he dies.

And the title made no sense either. It was just a pun on her name, but had no actual relation to the episode. Good job!

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