Angel - Season Three

Story

In the third season of Angel, the titular vampire with a soul was forced to stand alone thanks to the (temporary) death of his beloved Buffy and her show's move to a new network, with no crossover between the two allowed. He returns from seeking peace in a demon-haunted monastery to find the L.A. Angel Investigations team fighting supernatural crime in his absence. Fred is still haunted by the nightmare dimension from which they rescued her; Cordelia's visions get ever more painful and debilitating. The schemes of the evil law firm Wolfram and Hart become every more imaginative and dragon lady Lilah Morgan becomes even more of an enemy when lusting after Angel. Unbelievably, Darla, Angel's vampire sire and lover, turns up, pregnant with his child and is tortured by inexplicable motherly feelings as well as a raging thirst for human blood.

For a few episodes things go pretty well--but Angel's enemies, both those he has made in his quest for redemption and those he made when he was unadulterated evil, are still out there. Stephanie Romanov comes into her silky own in this series, making Lilah Morgan all the more seductively evil because she is clear about the choices she has made; the satanic law firm of Wolfram and Hart are this show's most inspired creation. As the season moves to its close, Wesley (Alexis Denisof) has hard choices to make. The devastating climax is compulsive viewing, and this season also contains one of the most impressive single episodes of the entire show: in "Waiting in the Wings," writer, director and creator Joss Whedon comes up with a classic ghost story as Angel and his crew go to the ballet and find a performance that is literally timeless. --Roz Kaveney

DVD Features

• Available Subtitles: English, Spanish
  
• Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  
• 22 episodes on 6 discs: Heartthrob, That Vision Thing, That Old Gang of Mine, Carpe Noctem, Fredless, Billy, Offspring, Quickening, Lullaby, Dad, Birthday, Provider, Waiting in the Wings, Couplet, Loyalty, Sleep Tight, Forgiving, Double or Nothing, The Price, A New World, Benediction, Tomorrow
  
• Commentary by Tim Minear and Jeffrey Bell on "Billy"
  
• Commentary by Tim Minear and Mere Smith on "Lullaby"
  
• Commentary by Joss Whedon on "Waiting in the Wings"
  
• Deleted scenes with commentary by Tim Minear and Mere Smith ("Birthday")
  
• Deleted scenes with commentary by Joss Whedon ("Waiting in the Wings")
  
• Featurettes: "Darla: Deliver Us from Evil," "Season 3 Overview," "Page to Screen"
  
• Series outtakes
  
• Screen tests for Amy Acker and Vincent Kartheiser
  
• Still gallery

Movie Details

Cast:

David Boreanaz	Angel
Charisma Carpenter	Cordelia Chase
Alexis Denisof	Wesley Wyndam Pryce
J. August Richards	Charles Gunn
Amy Acker	Winifred "Fred" Burkle
Vincent Kartheiser	Connor
Andy Hallett	Lorne

Running time: 990 mins.
DVD Aspect Ratios: 1.78:1

DVD International release dates:
North America: Feb 10, 04