5.9/1083 votesLoading...#1 - The Frightening Frammis
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/5/1993
We meet our anti-hero, grifter Mitch Allison, disheveled and walking by the side of the road. He tells us in a flash back narrative how he stole $25,000 from his con-artist wife Bette and jumped on a train hoping to double the money in a scam. He meets sultry Babe and gets involved in more than he bargained for. The twists and turns never stop in this fast paced tale.
Director: Tom Cruise
Writer: Jon Robin Baitz
6.0/1050 votesLoading...#2 - Fearless
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1995
In a tale that takes place in south-central Los Angeles, Fearless Jones and Paris Minton become involved with a femme fatale nightclub jazz singer. They try to help out Deletha by planning to steal her singing contract from the nightclub manager. Not all go as the wily sleuths planned.
Director: Jim McBride
Writer: N/A
6.2/1056 votesLoading...#3 - Love and Blood
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/1995
A dissatisfied boxer's wife leaves her husband for another man. But she wants to give the marriage another chance. However, fate touches Matt Cordell when he is framed for a murder.
Director: Kiefer Sutherland
Writer: N/A
6.3/1070 votesLoading...#4 - The Black Bargain
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/1995
It's the nature of noir never to know who your friends are. A mobster is hiding out in a hotel room and one by one his thug friends abandon him.
Director: Keith Gordon
Writer: N/A
6.3/1049 votesLoading...#5 - Red Wind
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1995
Famed Los Angeles private dick Marlowe investigates a series of murders in noir fashion.
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Writer: N/A
6.6/1063 votesLoading...#6 - The Quiet Room
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/29/1993
In the 1940's and 1950's some members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) had more interests than their slogan suggests: to protect and to serve. In this episode sadistic Streeter and brutal Creighton are corrupt cops whose antics lead to a nasty and tragic end when a shakedown plan goes awry.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: N/A
6.6/1035 votesLoading...#7 - Fly Paper
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1995
A well known socialite is missing and the famed shamus, the Continental Op, is on the trail in this story that takes place in 1929. The case takes the Continental Op to blackmail and murder.
Director: Tim Hunter
Writer: N/A
6.7/1043 votesLoading...#8 - Since I Don't Have You
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/26/1993
In this comic noir, fixer-bag-man Buzz Meeks is hired by both of his bosses--the multi-talented Howard Hughes and the gangster Mickey Cohen--to find, oops, the same girl whom they have both fallen madly in love with. This quite hilarious episode, narrated by "Buzz" in flashback, is peppered with many tales about the characters that made Los Angeles in the 1950's so incredibly interesting. Please suspend your disbelief in this episode and enjoy the ride.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: N/A
6.7/1057 votesLoading...#9 - Good Housekeeping
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/1995
In the noir world you never know how certain people can change your life forever. A woman is transformed when she falls for a wise guy.
Director: Michael Lehmann
Writer: N/A
6.8/1075 votesLoading...#11 - Tomorrow I Die
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/1995
In pure noir fashion, where fatalism plays it's untimely hand, Hollywood actor Rich Thurber gets off the bus and enters a bar to take drink. The bar is then abruptly taken over by bank thieves. The hoods mistake Rich for a local politician and take him and Carol, the daughter of Los Angeles' top cop, for a ride they won't soon forget. Look for a surprising and riveting end.
Director: John Dahl
Writer: N/A
6.9/10109 votesLoading...#12 - Professional Man
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/1995
Johnny Lamb is an elevator man by day and a hit man by night. He's very good at his job; he's a professional. The Boss sends him on a job that makes Lamb confront his conscience, maybe for the first time. The episode has interesting male relationships seldom touched in hard-boiled novels nor found in film noir.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: N/A
6.9/1054 votesLoading...#13 - A Dime a Dance
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/1995
A police detective investigates the untimely death of a nightclub dancer but the investigation is called off by the brass. The problem: the killer is still loose.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Writer: N/A
7.2/1071 votesLoading...#14 - Dead-End for Delia
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/1/1993
Detective Kelley is called to investigate a murder and we discover his wife Delia, a dance-hall hostess, has been murdered. We learn Kelley's past invovement with Delia and what happened via a very convoluted point-of-view.
Director: Phil Joanou
Writer: N/A
7.4/10121 votesLoading...#15 - Murder, Obliquely
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/19/1993
Annie, in true noir fashion, fatalistically falls in love with a millionaire who is quite bewitched by another lover and is not afraid to show it. In flashback narrative Annie explains that she met Dwight six weeks earlier and soon we understand Dwight's total obsession with "the other woman." How far will Dwight go to win and keep the love of his adored Bernette? What must Annie do to win Dwight's love?
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Fallen Angels
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A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy....
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:Showtime
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Frightening Frammis" is the worst rated episode of "Fallen Angels". It scored 5.9/10 based on 83 votes. Directed by Tom Cruise and written by Jon Robin Baitz, it aired on 9/5/1993. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Fearless".
