Angel: Every Season Ranked From Worst To Best

5. Season Four

Without question the lowest Angel ever stooped, Season Four featured a change in studio and less involvement from the master Joss Whedon, and the behind the scenes mash-up saw the show suffer big time.

Sporting a darker tone than ever before and some seriously questionable storylines, the whole season is a never-ending parade of character assassination and poor narrative choices.

Take Connor, for example. Angel's son is the most annoying character in the entire franchise, performed by Vincent Kartheiser with little to no passion or drive.

Because of him, the group dynamic fans had come to love was left in taters. Adding insult to injury, Cordelia - who has one of the franchise's best character arcs - is sidelined, forgotten about, and then completely betrayed with a sub-plot designed, it seems, to alienate the show's long-time fans.

There are some good moments, including Wesley's journey to bring Angel back to the group and the welcome return of both Willow and Faith, but aside from that Season Four is a mostly unforgivable mess with no real cohesion and lacklustre villains.

Ending on a happier note, the episodes "Spin the Bottle" (from Joss Whedon, marking his only involvement in Season Four) and the season finale "Home" are both solid, offering up some shenanigans reminiscent of the show's earlier run. It's just a shame the rest of the episodes failed to keep up with them.