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The Worst Episodes of Angel

Every episode of Angel ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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...
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama
Network:The WB

Worst Episodes Summary

"She" is the worst rated episode of "Angel". It scored 6.5/10 based on 2262 votes. Directed by David Greenwalt and written by David Greenwalt, Marti Noxon, it aired on 2/8/2000. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco".

  • She
    6.5/102,262 votes
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    #1 - She

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/8/2000

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

    Director: David Greenwalt

    Writer: David Greenwalt, Marti Noxon

  • The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco
    6.8/101,958 votes
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    #2 - 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.

    Director: Jeffrey Bell

    Writer: Jeffrey Bell

  • I Fall to Pieces
    6.9/102,352 votes
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    #3 - 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.

    Director: Vern Gillum

    Writer: N/A

  • Double or Nothing
    7.0/101,514 votes
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    #4 - 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.

    Director: David Grossman

    Writer: David H. Goodman

  • Expecting
    7.1/102,229 votes
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    #5 - Expecting

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/25/2000

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

    Director: David Semel

    Writer: Howard Gordon

  • Blood Money
    7.2/101,931 votes
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    #6 - Blood Money

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/23/2001

    Angel threatens to reveal Wolfram and Hart's criminal activities when he discovers they're stealing large contributions being made to a teen shelter. However, someone from Angel's past has other plans for him.

    Director: R. D. Price

    Writer: Shawn Ryan, Mere Smith

  • Happy Anniversary
    7.2/101,944 votes
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    #7 - Happy Anniversary

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/6/2001

    Angel and The Host search for a physicist who, with the aid of to Lubber demons, plans to freeze time so the he and his girlfriend will live in eternal happiness. Meanwhile, Wesley, Cordelia and Gunn start their first official case.

    Director: Bill L. Norton

    Writer: David Greenwalt, Joss Whedon

  • Provider
    7.2/101,593 votes
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    #8 - 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.

    Director: Bill L. Norton

    Writer: N/A

  • Slouching Toward Bethlehem
    7.2/101,438 votes
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    #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.

    Director: Skip Schoolnik

    Writer: Jeffrey Bell

  • Shiny Happy People
    7.2/101,539 votes
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    #10 - 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.

    Director: Marita Grabiak

    Writer: Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft

  • Sense & Sensitivity
    7.3/102,316 votes
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    #11 - Sense & Sensitivity

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1999

    Kate's temper buys her a trip to sensitivity training, which has a strange effect on her... and those around her.

    Director: James A. Contner

    Writer: Tim Minear

  • The Bachelor Party
    7.3/102,284 votes
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    #12 - The Bachelor Party

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1999

    Doyle's past love comes to town, but her new fiancé has other plans for him. Doyle gets a vision of Buffy.

    Director: David Straiton

    Writer: Tracey Stern

  • The Shroud of Rahmon
    7.3/101,951 votes
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    #13 - 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.

    Director: David Grossman

    Writer: Jim Kouf

  • Couplet
    7.3/101,493 votes
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    #14 - 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.

    Director: Tim Minear

    Writer: Jeffrey Bell, Tim Minear

  • Why We Fight
    7.3/101,887 votes
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    #15 - 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.

    Director: Terrence O'Hara

    Writer: Drew Goddard, Steven S. DeKnight

  • The House Always Wins
    7.4/101,497 votes
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    #16 - The House Always Wins

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/2002

    Angel and his friends discover that Lorne is being held prisoner in a corrupt Las Vegas casino.

    Director: Marita Grabiak

    Writer: David Fury

  • Players
    7.4/101,452 votes
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    #17 - Players

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 3/26/2003

    As Angel tries to remember what Lilah's book said about the Master, Lorne plans a cleansing ritual to regain his empathetic powers, and Gunn helps Gwen with some corporate espionage.

    Director: Michael Grossman

    Writer: Jeffrey Bell, Sarah Fain, Elizabeth Craft

  • Sacrifice
    7.4/101,482 votes
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    #18 - Sacrifice

    Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/23/2003

    While hiding in a sewer, Angel and his friends battle a nasty monster provides some clues that might help in the larger battle against Jasmine.

    Director: David Straiton

    Writer: Ben Edlund

  • Lonely Heart
    7.5/102,513 votes
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    #19 - 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.

    Director: James A. Contner

    Writer: David Fury

  • War Zone
    7.5/102,156 votes
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    #20 - War Zone

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/9/2000

    When Angel tracks down a millionaire's blackmailer, he gets caught in the middle of a gang war between street kids and vampires.

    Director: David Straiton

    Writer: Gary Campbell

  • First Impressions
    7.5/102,041 votes
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    #21 - First Impressions

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/2000

    Angel encounters an amorous Darla in his dreams; Cordelia vows to protect Gunn after she experiences a vision depicting him in mortal danger.

    Director: James A. Contner

    Writer: Shawn Ryan

  • The Thin Dead Line
    7.5/101,939 votes
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    #22 - The Thin Dead Line

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/13/2001

    Angel teams up with Kate to investigate the rumours of "dead" renegade police who are out for blood. Cordelia, Wesley and Gunn carry out their own investigation that results in Wesley being seriously wounded by a police gunshot.

    Director: Scott McGinnis

    Writer: Shawn Ryan, Jim Kouf

  • That Old Gang of Mine
    7.5/101,917 votes
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    #23 - 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 defence.

    Director: Frederick King Keller

    Writer: Tim Minear

  • Dad
    7.5/101,586 votes
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    #24 - 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.

    Director: Frederick King Keller

    Writer: David H. Goodman

  • The Price
    7.5/101,471 votes
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    #25 - The Price

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/29/2002

    Angel's hotel is infested with demonic slugscreated by the spell he used to alter Sahjhan.

    Director: Marita Grabiak

    Writer: David Fury