
Well,
you guys were absolutely right. Season five of
Angel is awesome, and I'm so glad I slugged through some of the earlier seasons that didn't exactly float my vampire boat.
The writing in season five is excellent, the characters are both fun and multidimensional (especially Wesley, whose story only gets more and more tragic), and it's just a great all-around season. Here are five reasons why I loved this season as much as any TV show (including
Buffy).

Well, I've covered
Buffy the Vampire Slayer here on
Jane After Dark, and my nephew, who loaned me his
Buffy DVDs, also got me into
Angel. Nearly everyone I talked to about
Angel said they just couldn't get into it. After
Buffy, maybe everything else pales in comparison.
I have to say, I really only started watching
Angel out of respect for
Buffy and Joss Whedon, and because I really loved the character of Angel (and David Boreanaz is not hard to look at). I was alternately watching
Buffy and
Angel at the same time (one disc of
Buffy, one of
Angel, and so on); it was a good way to do it, because there were a few crossover episodes that made a lot more sense watching them that way.