Review of Are You Now or Have You Ever Been

It's kinda like a puzzle. The "Who Died Horribly Because Angel Screwed Up 50 Years Ago" Game - One of the biggest season 2 classics, it's all around brilliant. This is one of Joss' favorite episodes and I can definitely see why, the flashbacks to the 50's were so well done, it truly felt like the 50's. Racism was kind of a big issue at then and I think that it's well used in this episode as the character 'Judy' (played by the wonderful 'Melissa Marsala') she passed on as white but when she was discovered having a black mother she lost her work and boyfriend because she wasn't 'pure' white or whatever, seems really exaggerated but I bet that things like that truly happened back then. This episode also introduced 'Denver' who gave 'Angel' some supplies to kill the thesulac demon, he appears later this season again only a lot older. What I mostly loved about this episode was 'forgiveness', 'Judy' betrayed 'Angel' to save herself and because of that 'Angel' got hanged, 50 years later they met again and 'Angel' forgives her for what she did and then she can finally rest in peace. After electrocuting the paranoide demon that fed on all those people's paranoide, 'Angel' decides to move into the hyperean hotel, which I love as it's my favorite set of the show. WESLEY: Well, now we know one thing for certain. CORDELIA: Yup! It's not that vampires don't photograph. It's just that they don't photograph well. (10 out of 10)