WB | The WB | TWB | Release Date: October 5, 1999
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
18
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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The New York TimesCaryn JamesMar 19, 2013
Season 1 Review: This first episode won't grab new viewers by the throat either, although it does reveal David Boreanaz's immense attraction as the brooding, hunky, laconic vampire. [5 Oct 1999, p.E7]
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New York Daily NewsDavid BianculliMar 19, 2013
Season 1 Review: The first episode of Angel is exciting and enticing. [5 Oct 1999, p.74]
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Cleveland Plain DealerMark DawidziakMar 19, 2013
Season 1 Review: Weighed down by an uncertain design, the rookie series certainly is off to a rocky start. [5 Oct 1999, p.2E]
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The Hollywood ReporterBarry GarronMar 19, 2013
Season 1 Review: The premiere of Angel suggests this is a fairly grim and humorless series, though perhaps not entirely predictable. With no Buffy to offset the intensely glowering and eternally brooding Angel (David Boreanaz), the former love of her life, the spinoff becomes a sort of "Touched By a Vampire," a show in danger of taking itself far too seriously and the audience far too lightly. [4 Oct 1999]