The Best Episodes of Angel
Every episode of Angel ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Angel!
The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption. A spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Angel" is "Not Fade Away", rated 9.5/10 from 3732 user votes. It was directed by Jeffrey Bell and written by Jeffrey Bell, Joss Whedon. "Not Fade Away" aired on 5/19/2004 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "You're Welcome".
9.5/10 3,732 votes#1 - Not Fade Away
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/19/2004
Angel and his friend's prepare for their "suicide" attack on the circle of the Black Thorn.
Director: Jeffrey Bell
Writer: Jeffrey Bell, Joss Whedon
9.4/10 2,942 votes#2 - You're Welcome
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 2/4/2004
When Lindsey returns and tries to defeat Angel using a secret "failsafe" entity created by the Powers That Be, Cordelia emerges from her coma to help save Angel.
Director: David Fury
Writer: David Fury
9.3/10 2,952 votes#3 - Smile Time
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/18/2004
While Nina the werewolf show romantic interest in Angel, he investigates a demon-infested children's television program and gets turned into a puppet; Gunn makes a deal to keep his newly implanted mental powers; and Wes and Fred's relationship heats up.
Director: Ben Edlund
Writer: Ben Edlund, Joss Whedon
9.3/10 2,502 votes#4 - A Hole in the World
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 2/25/2004
After being breathed on by an ancient sarcophagus, Fred contracts a mystery illness and lies near death while Angel and his friends try to figure out what's wrong with her.
Director: Joss Whedon
Writer: Joss Whedon
9.1/10 3,543 votes#5 - I Will Remember You
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/1999
Old feelings are rekindled when Buffy comes to L.A. to visit Angel. Buffy and Angel are attacked by a Mohra demon, and together they slay it
Director: David Grossman
Writer: David Greenwalt, Jeannine Renshaw
9.1/10 2,361 votes#6 - Reunion
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/19/2000
The newly revamped deadly duo of Drusilla and Darla hit the streets of L.A. Angel is frantic, searching for the terrible twosome.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: Shawn Ryan, Tim Minear
9.0/10 2,735 votes#7 - Five by Five
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/25/2000
Rogue slayer Faith comes to town, and when she partners up with Wolfram and Hart, Angel's life is in danger.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: Jim Kouf
9.0/10 2,608 votes#8 - Sanctuary
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/2/2000
Everyone, including Buffy Summers, is out to get Faith, and Angel is the only man who can stop them.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: Joss Whedon, Tim Minear
9.0/10 2,170 votes#9 - Orpheus
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 3/19/2003
As Faith and Angelus lay drugged and possibly dying, they flash back to key events in Angel's life... and Willow comes to help the others in the quest to restore Angel's soul.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Mere Smith
9.0/10 2,014 votes#10 - Shells
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 3/3/2004
Mourning Fred's death, Angel and his friends vow to find a way to bring her back, which leads to a confrontation with the ancient god Illyria, who now occupies Fred's body.
Director: Steven S. DeKnight
Writer: Steven S. DeKnight
8.9/10 2,303 votes#11 - Are You Now or Have You Ever Been
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/2000
In the 1950s, Angel aids a woman hiding from her past inside a hotel with a long history of death and mayhem. Meanwhile, in the present day, Angel and his colleagues hunt down a demon responsible for the carnage.
Director: David Semel
Writer: Tim Minear
8.9/10 2,248 votes#12 - Darla
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/2000
Lindsey finds himself drawn to Darla as her mental state deteriorates.
Director: Tim Minear
Writer: Tim Minear
8.9/10 2,115 votes#13 - Spin the Bottle
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/2002
Lorne's spell to restore Cordelia's memory backfires and convinces everyone they're high school students who have been gathered to kill a vampire: Angel.
Director: Joss Whedon
Writer: Joss Whedon
8.9/10 1,989 votes#14 - Salvage
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 3/5/2003
While Lorne casts a sanctuary spell on the hotel, and Wesley brings in the slayer, Faith, to help get Angelus back... the Doomsday Beast and its boss also try to woo Angelus.
Director: Jefferson Kibbee
Writer: David Fury
8.8/10 2,786 votes#15 - Hero
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1999
Doyle is presented with an opportunity for atonement when a band of frightened refugees seek his help.
Director: Tucker Gates
Writer: Howard Gordon, Tim Minear
8.8/10 2,169 votes#16 - The Trial
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/2000
Still haunted by flashbacks of his 150-year fling with the dreaded Darla, Angel sends Gunn out to find her.
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Writer: David Greenwalt, Douglas Petrie, Tim Minear
8.8/10 1,974 votes#17 - Destiny
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2003
After Spike receives a strange package, Wolfram and Hart employees are possessed by evil... while Angel and Spike are set against each other in a quest that brings their 100-year-old rivalry to a head.
Director: Skip Schoolnik
Writer: Steven S. DeKnight, David Fury
8.8/10 1,849 votes#18 - Power Play
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/2004
As Angel's behaviour grows increasingly hostile, his friends learn he's associating with members of an evil secret society, and may have deliberately engineered Fred's death.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: David Fury
8.7/10 2,258 votes#19 - To Shanshu in L.A.
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/23/2000
Wolfram and Hart raise a powerful new foe to strike down Angel and those close to him.
Director: David Greenwalt
Writer: David Greenwalt
8.7/10 1,835 votes#20 - Lullaby
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/2001
As Darla goes through a difficult labour, Holtz pursues Angel.
Director: Tim Minear
Writer: Tim Minear
8.7/10 2,256 votes#21 - Waiting in the Wings
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/2002
Angel and his friends attend a ballet,where Angel realises he saw the exact same dancers on stage 110 years ago.
Director: Joss Whedon
Writer: Joss Whedon
8.7/10 1,814 votes#22 - Awakening
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 1/29/2003
Angel agrees to try to bring Angelus back... but after the first attempt fails, he and his friends discover a magic sword that might do a better job of getting rid of the Big Bad beast.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: Steven S. DeKnight, David Fury
8.7/10 1,821 votes#23 - Soulless
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 2/5/2003
After Angelus succeeds in setting Angel's friends against each other, Cordelia makes him a deal: if he tells what he knows about the Big Bad beast, she'll give herself to him.
Director: Sean Astin
Writer: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft
8.7/10 1,703 votes#24 - Calvary
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 2/12/2003
After learning the doomsday beast may be working for something bigger and badder than itself, Angel's friends cast a spell to return his soul to Angelus' body.
Director: Bill L. Norton
Writer: Jeffrey Bell, Mere Smith, Steven S. DeKnight
8.6/10 2,060 votes#25 - Reprise
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/20/2001
Wolfram and Hart's senior partner is coming to visit. When Angel learns that the "senior partner" is actually an evil and merciless demon from hell, he must sacrifice his own life to destroy the powerful beast.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Tim Minear