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 from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Angel" is "She", rated 6.5/10 from 2247 user votes. It was directed by David Greenwalt and written by David Greenwalt, Marti Noxon. "She" aired on 2/8/2000 and is rated 0.3 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco".
6.5/10 2,247 votes#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
6.8/10 1,952 votes#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
6.9/10 2,335 votes#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
7.0/10 1,506 votes#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
7.1/10 2,213 votes#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
7.2/10 1,918 votes#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
7.2/10 1,934 votes#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
7.2/10 1,585 votes#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
7.2/10 1,528 votes#9 - 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
7.3/10 2,296 votes#10 - 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
7.3/10 2,267 votes#11 - 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
7.3/10 1,937 votes#12 - 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
7.3/10 1,486 votes#13 - 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
7.3/10 1,432 votes#14 - 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
7.3/10 1,882 votes#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
7.4/10 1,488 votes#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
7.4/10 1,442 votes#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
7.4/10 1,472 votes#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
7.5/10 2,494 votes#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
7.5/10 2,145 votes#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
7.5/10 2,026 votes#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
7.5/10 1,929 votes#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
7.5/10 1,907 votes#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
7.5/10 1,578 votes#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
7.5/10 1,462 votes#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