Hello all! Getting near the end of the list now, so some true greats of modern television are on this list. Speaking of modern TV there's a trailer out for the new season of Smallville which looks awesome! Of course the trailers tend to look great, but after last year I'm confident about season 9. Trailer's here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZnHsJkOSXc

Anyway I hope you enjoy this next part of my list.

21. Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been

Season 2 Episode 2

Over the course of Angel it was great to see various moments from the lead's life before Buffy. Arguably some of the more interesting ones are after he regained his soul. This is such an episode that is great from the opening with the bellman terrified of a hotel occupant that turns out to be Angel. From there we get to see part of how Angel lived during the 20th century as he tried his best to keep his head down. However this doesn't work and he ends up helping a young woman named Judy. It's done well that Angel doesn't immediately offer to help her and instead it requires her coming to him on several occasions. That Judy was "passing" for white gave a nice connection to Angel, as he was passing for human. This helped to accept that a man who wanted nothing to do with humanity would help someone. Of course his actions ended up costing him when he was betrayed by her before being beaten and hung for his troubles. It was a fantastically brutal scene that worked very well, and also managed to look very cool when Angel lifted himself out of the noose after they all left. The fear demon was a very cool idea and well executed in both 1952 and the present. The end action sequence was decent enough, but the main moment of the episode was seeing Angel turning his back on the world, and nothing could stop that being awesome!

22. Smile Time

Season 5 Episode 14

One of the cool things about the final season was the range of episode types it had. While some were a bit hit or miss, this one definitely delivered! So Angel was turned into a puppet, however unlike Buffy's Once More With Feeling, it made perfect sense within the realms of the show. A line comparing it to a nuclear reactor was enough to buy it and the whole thing with the demon possessed puppets was well thought out. From a technical standpoint the puppet work was top notch, with even a couple of full body scenes of Angel walking while talking which looked very impressive. Naturally for an episode like this there was a lot of humour and many great moments. However there was also a bit of darkness in it with Gunn making a deal to restore his knowledge of the law, which obviously came back to haunt him very quickly. The end action sequence was very well done and somehow managed to avoid being cheesy despite them fighting puppets. Puppet Angel changing to his vampire face was just a superb ending to the scene. On top of that we also had the start of Fred and Wes' relationship as well as Nina naked, all making for a great stand alone episode.

23. Dad

Season 3 Episode 10

Here we got to see the battle for the child of two vampires and really got a great sense of just how epic his birth was. The many different demons coming after the child, as well as Wolfram & Hart, was great. However despite the huge menace there was still time for a lot of great character moments. We got a great scene where Angel managed to stop his son crying by changing to his vampire face and, while being frustrating to the gang, it made perfect sense that Angel was overprotective, and worked brilliantly for the ending reveal. Thinking that Angel had abandoned his team to save his son was a huge moment and the chase scene after it was also very cool. Him eventually revealing that it was all a trick and the baby was the teddy bear with a bomb strapped to it was a great resolution to the threat. It was a superb mislead and excellent to see that Angel really trusted his friends fully with his son. Of course despite many of the enemies being taken out there was still a large threat against them. Using Lindwood to protect his son was great and gave a satisfying ending to the episode before the child being named Connor which was a great beat to end on. My only real complaint with the episode is that while appropriately epic for the most part there were moments that felt a bit cheap. The siege on the hotel only consisted of a few guys and vampires being killed (cheaply offscreen) which seemed a bit poor to me. Still it is one complaint in an otherwise superb episode that excellently wrapped up this story arc.

24. The Trial

Season 2 Episode 9

Despite his claims to Wes and Cordy, Angel had been actively searching for Darla with Gunn's help. They eventually found a cheap motel room she'd been staying in (as well as confirming vampires don't need invitations for such places) before finding her trying to get turned at a seedy bar. The revelation of her dying was cleverly done and made perfect sense. Even before the trial the episode had loads of great stuff, including a great scene between Angel and Lindsey and Cordy and Wes completely undermining Angel telling Darla she wasn't a prisoner. After seeing Lorne, with a very nice performance from Darla to cover up the slightly lazy plot device, they were directed to the titular trial. The trial was awesome with the three tests Angel had to go through all being well thought out and brilliantly visualised. It was done well enough and was so tough that you could buy the fact it would save Darla. However what followed was even more awesome with the reveal that she couldn't be saved having already been brought back to life. A disastrous revelation that was perfect. Just when things didn't look like they could get any worse the episode ended with none other than Drusilla returning to sire Darla which was just this side of epic! My only complaint in the episode is the flashbacks. While very good it always felt cheap that they didn't come up with a reason as to how Angel escaped from Holtz (his first mention here). However it wasn't enough to really take away from this awesome episode.

25. The Ring

Season 1 episode 16

This is what we want to see on an action show, a load of demons in an underground fighting arena. While maybe not the most original idea it worked superbly within the Angel universe. After being tricked by a fake client Angel got caught and thrown into the battle arena. As awesome as the action is, that Angel tried to avoid bloodshed was great. The way he tried to convince the other fighters to stop was done very well and made for a superb episode. The demons themselves were a good mix and had a good bit of personality to them. Of course Wesley and Cordelia weren't just standing by while Angel was in trouble. Them actively trying to rescue Angel gave a great balance to the events in the arena. It also led to the moment Wesley became awesome when he took on the bookie and his armed men with just a crossbow, and fantastically won. It was one of Wes' best moments, and there have been many! The ending was great with a combination of both sides of the story helping to save the day. It was almost backwards with the demons being freed and taking out their human captors, but that it worked just proved how awesome this show is!

26. She

Season 1 episode 13

This episode had a hilarious opening with Angel's superb dancing at Cordy's party. It set up the episode nicely for the case of the week which was a powerful demon princess named Jheira. It was great to see Angel's social ineptitude affect the case as he had trouble getting her to accept his help. Jheira was also quite interesting (and hot) in that while not evil, she was going about things in a questionable way. Despite this her plight was relatable and you felt sorry for her. That the two of them didn't part of good terms was also the right way to end the episode after they'd butted heads throughout. As well as the good story there were plenty of other awesome bits! Angel's description of Manet's painting to avoid the museum guards was great way for him to use his sizeable knowledge of the arts. Wesley also became a proper member of the team here and the story resolved with Angel's awesome "and I'm not human" bit while vamping out to scare of the other demons.

27. Soul Purpose

Season 5 Episode 10

Angel's doubts that he's the true champion came to the surface here as well as worked as a great plot. Lindsey made his first full appearance in years here (uncredited for some reason) going by the name Doyle. Despite the attempts to bring in new viewers it was great for long time fans to get such a cool pay off. The fake missions he sent Spike on were superb and gave one of the best and most hysterical responses from Spike after saving a damsel in distress. Meanwhile Angel was having crazy dreams brought on by a demon Eve planted on him. While most of the dreams were very cool and had a lot of meaning some of the stuff in them seemed to be weird just for the sake of it (guy in a bear costume!?). Spike eventually saving Angel was a cool ending and nicley brought together both storylines in the episode. While telling a great individual episode this also nicely set up some great material for future episodes.

28. Eternity

Season 1 episode 17

The episode opened brilliantly with a great mislead that Angel and Wesley were in mortal danger, only to show them stuck watching Cordelia's poor performance. The action kicked in straight after that with Angel saving an actress, Rebecca, from a speeding car. One thing that set Angel apart from Buffy was its portrayal of the real world. Being set in a real city, and such a famous one, gave some great opportunities for this with Eternity being one of them. The little in-jokes about vampire actors were good but the idea of an actress wanting to stay young forever was a great idea and original idea in the Buffyverse. The stuff between Angel and Rebecca was great and the actress was very good (as most Angel guest stars are). There were some playful scenes which made the moment Angel turned into Angelus even more surprising and awesome! Having been worried about it all episode to actually see it was superb. Although not evil for long it was enough to show how cool and terrifying Angelus is without having any significant fallout that would require multiple episodes to address. The happy pill simply wearing off for him to revert to Angel may have seemed a bit of a cop out, but Wesley's explanation was good enough that it worked well. This was a great episode with loads of great ideas that were brilliantly executed.

29. The Price

Season 3 Episode 19

Despite things seeming to get back to normal after the Connor/Wesley story the threat in this episode comes directly from Angel's attempts to get into Quor-Toth in Forgiving. The CGI slug monsters looked fantastic which helped to get immersed in the story. There was a real feeling of being trapped in the hotel with these monsters, as they couldn't risk them getting out. And despite being small they were still quite powerful and dangerous as well as being loads of them, which really upped the tension nicely. Wesley kept being more badass by knowing how to save Fred without even needing to know anything about the demon infecting her. His scene with Gunn was great to watch and fit in nicely with the action going on at the Hyperion. My only gripe is that Cordy taking out all the demon slugs by glowing was a bit of a cop out. It was an incredibly easy way to get rid of them and always felt very cheap. However the ending did make up for that. That the Destroyer who had been mentioned was none other than a teenage Connor was a brilliant ending that would take us into the season's ending arc.

30. Dear Boy

Season 2 Episode 5

After a few episodes hinting at Wolfram & Hart's master plan for Darla and Angel here we get to see it fully in motion. At first it would seem that Angel is seeing things. Having been dreaming about Darla repeatedly and being constantly tired you couldn't blame Cordy and Wes for doubting him. Of course we all knew it really was Darla which helped to be able to get behind Angel rather than worry that he was losing it. Also brought back into the story was Kate, and it was very well done that she was used as a major part of such a major plot point. We also got some cool flashbacks which expanded on Drusilla's origin a bit from Angel and Darla's perspective. The build up in this episode was great. Angel not being able to work properly (constantly beating on one guy in the opening fight and blowing the adultery case) and the reveal that Darla was human all worked brilliantly to bring us to the final act of the episode. Angel being genuinely ready to kill Darla did work and made sense, as well as being a good sign of how the season would progress. Although he eventually didn't, him knowing that Darla was back was a significant plot point for the season. As well as all that the episode still managed to have some good humour that balanced well with the darker material. Also Cordy's undercover outfit was awesome!