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Angel has had its problems, like Buffy -- too much unremitting grimness, among other things -- but it was perking up this season. One of the great things they did early on is show how the whole demon/magic world could exist in LA and just be ignored by "normal" people, accepted as some kind of cultural background noise that looked kinda weird but that nobody wanted to spend time looking at too closely.
That was actually the great metaphor of Angel -- all the stuff that's happening around us everyday, that we don't pay attention to. Sure, in the real world the stuff we ignore is not demonic -- but it can be pretty strange, and pretty harmful.
I liked the first year or two best, but I liked more shows than not this season, especially the one about the Mexican wrestlers. And my favorite Angel episode, from the second season, will always be "Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been..." about Angel in the '50s. A brilliant piece of work.
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