Angel - Season Four

As the fourth season of Angel starts, everything is still as we left it: Angel has been sunk to the bottom of the sea in an iron box by his inexplicable and vindictive son Connor and Cordelia has been summoned to higher realms to await orders. Gunn and Fred are left in the Hyperion Hotel, unsure about what has happened to their friends, and Lilah is working hard to seduce Wesley to the dark side. In the first few episodes, some of this is resolved but it's almost immediately replaced by far worse crises: prophesies of doom accumulate more rapidly even than usual in this wonderfully gloomy show and a horned rock-like beast rains fire on Los Angeles. This last year is Angel's most tightly dramatic season yet--with a story arc of surprising intensity punctuated by the show's usual wit and sexiness.

Season 4 is presented on DVD in Dolby 2.0 Surround Sound and anamorphic widescreen. It comes with insightful, and often hilarious, commentaries on seven of the 22 episodes as well as featurettes--a series overview, profiles of the characters of Jasmine and the Beast, a farewell to the Hyperion Hotel (the characters' base for three seasons), and a discussion of the apocalypse that Angel has to deal with from episode 7 onwards). --Roz Kaveney

Movie Details

Cast: David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, Alexis Denisof, J August Richards, Amy Acker, Vincent Kartheiser, Andy Hallett
Running time: 990 Min
DVD Aspect Ratios: 1.78:1

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DVD Features:

Available subtitles: English, Spanish

Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)

22 episodes on six discs: Deep Down, Ground State, The House Always Wins, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, Supersymmetry, Spin the Bottle, Apocalypse Nowish, Habeas Corpses, Long Day's Journey, Awakening, Soulless, Calvary, Salvage, Release, Orpheus, Players, Inside Out, Shiny Happy People, The Magic Bullet, Sacrifice, Peace Out, Home

Commentary by David Fury and Andy Hallett on The House Always Wins

Commentary by Joss Whedon and Alexis Denisof on Spin the Bottle

Commentary by Vern Gillum and Steven DeKnight on Apocalypse Nowish

Commentary by Terrence O'Hara and Jeffrey Bell on Orpheus

Commentary by Steven DeKnight on Inside Out

Commentary by Jeffrey Bell on The Magic Bullet

Commentary by Tim Minear on Home

Angel and the Apocalypse

Prophecies: Season 4 Overview

Unplugged: Season 4 Outtakes

Last Looks: The Hyperion Hotel

Fatal Beauty and the Beast

Malice in Wonderland: Wolfram & Hart

Number of discs: 6

DVD International release dates:
North America: Sep 7, 04