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The Hole in the World: Why 'Angel' is better than 'Buffy'
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Fifteen years ago this week, Angel premiered on the WB. A spinoff of the much-beloved Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show would run for five seasons, leaving the air in May of 2004—one year after Buffy’s series finale. In the subsequent years, Buffy‘s legend would only grow as critics and fans alike acknowledged the debt modern television owed to it. Angel, however, would linger in the background, never really forgotten but also never really championed, even as it sits just a few clicks away from its sister series on Netflix and Hulu.
But Angel is every bit as vital as Buffy. In fact, it might even be better.
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If Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a show about becoming, then Angel is about something far more challenging: existing. There is a rot to the world, one that threatens to infect us all—not in grand, dramatic ways, but mundane ones. Entropy and inertia are the natural order of things. According to Holland Manners, the world doesn’t work in spite of evil—it works with it.
“If there wasn’t evil in very single one of them out there,” Manners tells Angel, “well, they wouldn’t be people. They would be angels.”
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...even at its lowest points, Angel stays with you, haunts you, unsettles you, giving voice to that which you suspected all along. “There’s a hole in the world,” says one character in one of the show’s most heartrending moments. “Feels like we ought to have known.”
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http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/10/06/an...er-than-buffy/
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