“What’s today, Thursday? Tomorrow night the world’s going to
end. Thought you might like to know”.
This is a story of the week and a very unusual episode,
being essentially a piece of sci-fi in a supernatural series. It somehow works,
partly because there are some demon cultists to tie the episode to the show’s
natural genre and partly because the theme is so affecting: Gene is so
distraught at overhearing that his girlfriend is going to dump him on their one
year anniversary that he freezes time around them while they fornicate rather
boringly. I mean, Gene doesn’t even let her have her orgasm before freezing them!!!
The plot is rather neat, perhaps, but it’s rather nifty in a
Twilight Zone sort of way, and a two
hander between Angel and the Host allows us to develop the relationship between
them. The Host, being a natural judge of character, is the perfect person to
diagnose Angel. His point is that Angel has stopped caring, stopped helping the
helpless and started to punish the guilty instead. He no longer cares about the
consequences, including those for his friends.
Meanwhile, Angel’s former friends get themselves a case,
courtesy of Wesley’s rich girlfriend Virginia, which nabs them a lot of money
and allows Wesley to look cool by doing that Hercule Poirot thing where he gets all the suspects together and
reveals who did it. I wanna do that one day!
Angel’s case concludes with a philosophical conversation
with the Host and a contrite Gene, a positive move as Angel seems to be connecting
to someone. His former friends’ case concludes with loads of cash and a massive
party. Interestingly, though, they are still using the name Angel
Investigations.
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