Last night, the WB Network aired the 100th episode of "Angel," the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"-spinoff focusing on a vampire cursed with a soul, and thus eternal remorse for past acts. As with any long-running show, there have been good and bad arcs. Last season ended on a bad one, IMO, with Angel's confidant and burgeoning love interest Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) being possessed by a huge evil. (If you guessed this was a fancy pregnancy cover-up, you win.) After Angel dispels said evil, Cordy is left in a coma.
The fifth season began with Carpenter not in the opening credits, and Angel and company in charge of the demonic law firm Wolfram & Hart. As you might guess, switching sides hasn't sat well with our hero, and in the 100th episode Cordelia wakes up and sets him right, closing several storylines in the process.
All very good, except at the end of the episode, after Cordy and Angel have had a heart-to-heart, the phone rings. It's the hospital calling, and Cordy never actually woke up. In fact, the call is to report her death. Angel turns and she's gone. Huh? Chalk up the latest entry to TV's Phantom Zone.
In real life, Carpenter married Damian Hardy in 2002 (on my birthday incidentally) and gave birth to a son, Donovan Charles Hardy. Thanks for many hours of entertainment and best of luck.
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