Angel

Rm w/a vu

The Good;

Everything, an emotional rollercoaster for Doyle and Cordy and the introduction of Phantom Dennis. Great performance from Beth Grant, a great actress you can also see in Speed, Six Foot Under, Donnie Darko etc

The Bad;

Bit of a reach that the ghost can do a perfect imitation of Angel's voice, is she the Terminator or something?

Best line:

Cordy (of Angel) "Do you have mousse? Of course you do!"


Jeez, how did they get away with that?

Doyle's hand getting jammed in the drawer, Cordy almost getting hanged, Maude Peirson walling her son up.

Apocalypses: 4

Angel Cliches

Damsel in distress; nope, 2.

Inverting the Hollywood cliche;

In disguise; 1.

DB get's his shirt off; wet, dripping and nearly naked 2

Cordy's tatto; our first glimpse

Fang Gang in bondage: Cordy almost hung, don't think thats counts
Cordy: 5
Angel: 4
Wes: 1

Fang gang knocked out: yep, Cordy
Cordy: 8
Angel: 7
Wes: 1
Doyle; 1


Kills:
Cordy: none this ep. 3 vamps, ? a demon from her time in Sunnydale
Angel: 1 demon for Angel. So that gives Angel 8 vamps, 3 demons, 2 humans.

Fang Gang go evil:
Cordy: 1
Angel: 1

Alternate Fang Gang: possessed Cordy
Cordy: 2
Angel: 3

Characters killed: Dennis and a trio of the flat residents offscreen

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Total number of Angel Investigations:
3, Angel, Doyle and Cordy

Angel Investigations shot: loads of gunplay but no
Angel: 5,

Notches on Fang Gang bedpost:
Cordy: 1?
Angel: 1;Buffy

Kinky dinky:

Maude calls Cordy a tramp and streetwalker, good thing they didn't go through with the storyline of Corrupt huh?

Captain Subtext;

Know the face, different character; 1

Parking garages;

2

Guantanamo bay;

Once again Angel doesn't hesitate to beat his way to the answers

Questions and observations;

Excellent ep with loads of good scenes and some real emotional impact, easily one of the best of season 1. I for one find it heartbreaking that Cordy has only five names in her LA phonebook and 3 are crossed out. Aura, her Sunnydale friend is the girl who finds the corpse in her locker in Welcome to the Hellmouth on Buffy.

Marks out of 10; 8/10

It turns out that it's not only Angel who will be searching for redemption on the show. This episode features Cordelia trying to redeem herself for her past crimes. Unlike Angel and his history of death and pain, Cordelia faces up to her past of torment and cruelty she excelled at in Sunnydale High.



In Rm w/a Vu, Cordelia moves into a new apartment. It has wonderful furniture, tons of living space, vibrant décor and a, uh, ghost problem.



Cordelia is absolutely excellent in this episode. Charisma Carpenter is amazing throughout and there is a hilarious line at least every 30 seconds. The scenes where Cordelia and Doyle go round to various apartments around LA are stand-out moments, the funniest being the creepy apartment super who offers Cordy his bed for the night.



The scenes involving Cordy trying to cover up all the hauntings are absolutely brilliant. One exchange in particular is hysterical. In the scene, the word "DIE" has just appeared on the wall, written in blood...



Cordelia: I'm not giving up this apartment!

Angel: It's haunted

Cordelia: It's rent-controlled!

Doyle: Cordy, it says "die"

Cordelia: Maybe it's not done; maybe it says "die-t". That's friendly... a little judgmental sure.



As well as being filled to the rim with hilarious lines, Rm w/a Vu also has some terrifying scenes, the most creepy being the flashback to Maude Pearson bricking up her son, Dennis, in the wall. Her casual dialogue as he pleads for her to stop is very effective and you genuinely feel for Dennis, who makes his first appearance, one of the funniest characters in the history of Angel, who decides to stick around with Cordelia in her new apartment.



Charisma has said that Rm w/a Vu is her favorite episode and it's unsurprising, it's an absolutely hilarious hour and the one of only two Angel episodes written by Jane Espenson, the best comedy writer in the Buffyverse.



Director: Scott McGillis

Teleplay: Jane Espenson

Story: Jane Espenson, David Greenwalt

Rating: A+

Who *is* Cordelia Chase?



Is she the lies she tells herself? Is she the attitude she projects? After all, she was all about things leaking. She gave an astonishing read for garbage bags. Cordelia is a woman who is professional enough to prepare for an audition, but not "professional" enough to sleep with the director like the dominiatrix who got the job.



Is she her crappy apartment in which she does personal affirmations? We saw a rundown of terrible places to live -- starting with her own -- like something out of the ersatz nanny applications Robin Williams voiced in "Mrs. Doubtfire."



And I'm intrigued by the presence of peanut butter in Angel's bed. That's just *wrong*. ;)



Oh, btw -- NAKED ANGEL! David's first nude scene on the series -- his lats were so proud.



Doyle *knows* someone. Griff? Well, not Griff, maybe, but what a charismatic one-shot character.



At least his house hookup was slightly more reliable -- well, *only* slightly, given the poltergeistilicious apartment he found for her.



I'm flying right by the Cordy in Angel's dungeon because while that was very much Cordy, she was mostly there for Odd Couple farce. "Don't mind me, I'm just going to change everything around and take up the flooring."



But who is Cordelia Chase?



She isn't even the person who first moves into the apartment -- status-seeking and into the material, one step further along from the Cordettes. In just a few short years she is making huge sacrifices to save the world, although she needs a trip through the looking glass to confirm that.



No. Who she is, sadly, is the person the morning after she moves in with a psychotic ghost.



She hides things from her friends.



Her first instinct whenever there is trouble is to circle the wagons, turn inward and not trouble anyone else with what's going on with her in her life.



This is a charitable instinct. No one wants to be a downer. But she gives so much, and doesn't give anyone else an opportunity to be there for *her*. The apartment has attacked her but she won't let Angel and Doyle know what's going on until the place starts getting completely out of hand and they drag her from it.



This is a character flaw that will destroy her. It's part of why Cordelia Chase towers as a tragic figure in this series. Her fatal flaw.



When she gets impregnated with demon seed, she doesn't go into work, and Angel actually has to go to her house to find out what's going on with her. She will endure massive brain trauma before the Powers actually step in and infuse her with demon essence.



When she can't deny the help she needs, after she returns from her higher dimension with amnesia, she withdraws, runs and hides, allying herself with perhaps the one figure on this bombed-out hellscape more screwed up than she is.



And in this fugue, she gets completely taken over by something horrifying. When she begins to suffer some of the consequences of this possession, rather than tell anyone, she just lets it happen.



And in her final scenes, she won't just come out and say what's going on, to let the group mourn, to say goodbye properly. Instead, she lets them believe she will be right behind them and that they've got a lovely evening of catching up and reminscing ahead of them.



Cordelia Chase doesn't want to burden anyone with her troubles.



It's very dramatic, and it makes for good storytelling, but ultimately, it kills her. And one wishes that she might have learned to trust people a little bit more.



Loved the introduction to Dennis, of course, and his backstory -- so very sad.



Also, loved a plot point raised by Kate -- if Angel's an investigator, he needs to get himself some bona fides.



And someday soon, Doyle, we're all going to need to hear it.



Sooner rather than later, boychik.



For now, however, "Pope Angel" indeed. Fun fight scene and nice intertwining of storylines. And Cordy gave an outstanding turn as the "biggest bitca in Sunnydale." Her victory was delicious.



For now, for what we knew, for the fifth episode of Season 1, great, great installment.



And just a few dark rumblings of what lies ahead.

‘Room With A View’ is the first Cordy-centric episode on Angel and it was immediately very sweet. Cordy gets a new apartment but it turns out that she has an unwelcomed dead roommate.



It begins with Cordy in the office, she did an audition that didn’t go too well. Now one of her friends Aura calls but she doesn’t want to take the phone and talk to her because she isn’t ready for the parade of pain.



Doyle is very interested in Cordy and asks Angel about her, he says that she used to be rich until everything was taken away from her but at least she’s doing allright. When Cordy comes home, she finds her home filled with cockroaches, she tries to call Doyle to stay over his place but he’s very busy being attacked by a demon so she goes to Angel and dumps her stuff in his home and takes over his place (poor Angel).



I really loved the way Cordy acted in this episode, when Doyle arrives next day he finds the two and thinks that they slept together. Angel tells him they really didn’t and that he knows about Doyle’s problem and will help him as long as Doyle helps him getting rid of Cordy.



Doyle takes Cordy for tours to find her own apartment, they are all crappy until the last one who looks perfect but when they leave, it turns out to be haunted. When Cordy goes to sleep overnight she begins to realise it’s haunted to, next day she just tries to ignore everything even though she knows it’s haunted. Her friends come over and they see that the place is haunted and want to take Cordy away from it but she wants to stay. Doyle says to clean the place and to get rid of the ghost.



While Doyle and Angel try to find some stuff Cordy gets a call from Angel to go to the house but when she arrives it turns out to be the ghost who wanted to kill her, she makes Cordy to act pathetic and then tries to strangle her. Luckily for her Angel and Doyle arrive just on time to save her. They try to help Cordy but she’s very down because of what little old ghost said to her and she acts like a weakling.



But when old lady ghost takes her to a room to kill Cordy, she calls her a b!tch and that makes her realise what she is. She fights back and casts the old lady out of her room while Angel and Doyle kill some demons that Doyle owes something to.



When Cordy comes out, she’s possessed by the old lady. She destroys the wall she hated from the start and it has a skeleton in it. Turns out that old lady ghost killed her own son and then had a heart attack the same moment he died. His name is Dennis and his ghost wakes up and destroys the old lady ghost.



‘Room With A View’ was an excellent episode that had a few slow moments but most of it was great fun. Doyle got some character development even though that’s what drags down the episode and Cordy gets her own apartment. This episode also introduced the coolest ghost ever, Dennis.

Rm W/ Vu is awesome! Phantom Dennis' fist episode LOL.

Doyle find Cordy an apartment and she falls in love with it. It is just what she wants. But little do they know it is haunted by the scariest lady I have ever seen, and her son.

Back in the day, a woman buried her son alive in one of the walls in the apt and she wants Cordy out. She doesnt want any woman near her son (wacko).

So she tortures Cordy for a little while but then Cordy's strength comes back and says my favorite line of the episode "The bitch is back!".

this episode is definitely one of the scariest in the whole of Angel because the ghost was just god damn freaky. it was really funny also because cordelia wasn't really that fazed by it like a normal person would be because she lived in sunnydale :) and has faced far worse than ghost,haha. it was pretty damn freaky tho when angels voice was used by the ghost to lure her there into the house, that was kinda well terrifying to be honest! it was good tho when the ghost of her son is let out of the chimney breast and he comes back to get revenge on his mother! coz she was one evil cow

I tell ya seeing Cordelia fall out of character in this episode when a ghost begins to haunt her new apartment was really something to watch. Charisma got to stretch her dramatic skills a bit, since starting Angel, and then lay it all out in old school Cordelia when she tells off this bad boo.

Cordelia was always a big beyoch in sunnydale but after she lost all her money she had to learn the hard way but having some gross apartment. this episode is brilliant! cordelia is the best character of the show and this episode proves why!



doyle and angel were also very enjoyable and fun. the episode is one of the best episodes of the season and we meet dennis the ghost who is one of the best characters of the show even if he never said a word except for the flashback

Cordy first of all tries to stay with Doyle, but Doyle is away with his own money/demon problems, so she barges in on Angel, who just happens to come out of the shower. And so, she is living with him. Then Angel and Doyle come to an agreement, Doyle will find Cordy an apartment, and Angel will get rid of Doyle's Demon. So, Cordy and Doyle go looking for an apartment, after Cordy not liking any from her section, she decides to go after Doyle's idea. The house seems perfect. That is until, things fly around and someone tries to kill her. Turns out that it's a ghost and after being afraid, Cordy gets her attitude back and banishes the ghost. Turns out the ghost thought that whoever (a girl) stayed in her house was a tramp trying to steal her son, when actually, the only lady tied up her son and put him behind a wall and then put up the wall so he would die and wouldn't be with a 'tramp' well, in the end the old lady dies, and Cordy is in a different apartment with another ghost, but this time, this one listens to her. It's quite entertaining.

When Cordelia sees her apartment full of roaches she decides to try and find a new one since doyle wasn\'t home. She ends up staying with Angel until she starts annoying him. So he asks Doyle to help her find a new apartment. After a few wierd apartments she finds one she really likes. There\'s only one problem...It\'s haunted. DIE is written in blood on her wall but Cordy refuses to leave. After the ghost tries to kill her she gets her additude back. It turns out the old lady who was trying to kill her had built a wall around her son so he couldn\'t leave. Then she died and she thought Cordy was her son\'s girlfriend. This episodes is one of my favorite episodes!!

Cordelia has been living in a horrible place. We get to see exactly how horrible when we see her deal with muddy water coming out of her sink and a roach infestation. I never thought I would see Cordy living this way. She decides to take action, and with a little help from Doyle she finds a PERFECT place. She wonders why the rent is low and why someone else hasnt snatched the place. She soon finds out. Seems that Maude Pearson lived there with her son way back when and now Maude haunts the place. We think it is because Maude was killed by her son. We find out thanks to Angel and Kate that Maude actually killed her son by tieing him up and walling him in in the apartment. (Nice Mom) She ends up dying of a heart attack right after she finishes walling him up. Cordy unwalls Dennis (the dead son) and he deals with the spirit of dear ole Mom quite handily. All is well, and Dennis decides to stay and be Cordys ghost roommate.

Fun words to learn and know: Cordelia: “Roaches! Live ones. Dead ones. All skinny feet and creepy antlers!”



Dialogue to lose inside the sofa in Hell: Cordelia: “I\'m not a sniveling, whining little cry-Buffy.”



I love this episode! What fun! There are some really funny lines and good character development. Cordelia finally seems to realize what an unpleasant person she was in high school -- and even feels a little bad about it. She understands (at least to a certain extent, even if she isn’t willing to admit as much) that her behavior was despicable enough to merit atonement. However, there are two instances that stand out to show that she still has a great deal of progress to make. Those being: 1) the way she brushes aside Angel’s comment that she’s working for redemption; and 2) when she turns on Doyle and snaps at him about his (less than reliable) contacts -- despite the fact that she’s madly in love with her new “poltergeist-alicious apartment.” Not that I’m complaining -- I adore catty Cordy!



Angel is finally starting to wonder about Doyle’s past and take an interest in his life story. You’d think this would have come up before now, but all good things in time I suppose.

I loved this episode of Angel the most! I couldn't get enough of it. When I got this season on DVD, I swear I would of killed my disc watching this episode coz it was the best one! I love how cordy is just a so called "rich" girl trying to make it in the world now, with her picky status! She then turns around and does a 180 and tells the ghosty grandman and puts her in her place! "BACK OF POLY GRIP" The snidy remark to "cry-buffy" was a little much but it was all good.



Then Cordy's whole crying fit was interesting as well! shes def. stronger than that!

I had so much fun watching this episode where Cordelia doesn't want to leave without a fight. I like the storyline with Dennis living together after that episodes. It makes fun to watch if he is jealous or just annoying.



We learn something more about Doyle if the demon arrives to collect money of him. Angel can handle that kind of stuff.



The funniest scene is when Cordelia arrives at Angel's apartment to stay until she finds a new one herself. David Boreanaz as Angel just stepped out of the shower. I love him only wearing a towel :o)) Isn't he sexy?



Another cool scene I loved to watch several times is when Angel tricked Doyle that there is someone huge asking for him, just to get know what really happened to Doyle's hand. Both actors are so great to watch!



I love that epsiode and I have seen it many, many times on my DVDs!!!

Wow. This is a great episode for Cordy showing her old self. Cordy moves into a new apartment that is haunted. She gets her old self back and its so funny to watch. I'm glad she returned to her careless rude self. She shows she will not put up with anyones crap especially the ghost haunting her house. I also lke this episode because it is one of the few with Doyle. I love Doyle and he really brought a lot to this episode and the whole show. This was one great episode!

Rm w/a Vu-When Cordelia decides that she cannot stand her roach-infested apartment for one more day, Doyle offers to help her find a new place. He makes good on his offer and finds her a beautiful apartment that is well within her budget. But when she starts hearing strange voices, seeing things fly across the room, and waking up at night with her bed levitating off the floor, Cordy must decide how much the perfect apartment is really worth.



Cordelia: "I'm not whiny little cry-a-Buffy, I'm the nastiest girl in Sunnydale history and I take crap from no one." The first classic episode of the series and one of the funniest ever, Charisma had this episode all to herself and owns it in every sense of the word. You can't help but feel sorry for Cordelia in this episode. She hasn't had the best luck after her family went bankrupt and after she left for L.A. Cordelia has may put on her cheery attitude all she wants, but she is suffering and her new apartment doesn't help. The ghost plot is just solid throughout and brings genuinely horror movie-like scenes that creep you out. There are so many hilarious scenes that balance out the dark storyline especially when Doyle and Cordelia are looking for apartments and Cordelia tries to hide her obviously haunted apartment from Angel and Doyle. Charisma really out does herself here, giving her character some needed depth that elevates the already brilliant scrpit by Buffy writer Jane Espensen. She goes from her usual smart mouthed self to a complete reck to her declaration of being a b!%ch toward the ghost so convinvingly. Beth Grant who plays the ghost mom who taunts Cordelia is superb and creeps you out. The episode also has a great twist with the second ghost being Dennis and him being bricked into the wall by his mother is the most disturbing scene to watch. The episode ends wonderfully with Dennis staying permanently as Cordelia's new dead roommate which is just hilarous. Ohh, there is also a subplot with Doyle and him paly off a bunch of demons, but forgettable with the strong A-plot. All and All, an amazing episode full of humor, horror, and great storytelling.

The best episode of season one!



Dennis [even though he is invisible] is a great character to be added to the series, and he proves to be very helpful later on. [I won't give spoilers though!]



The only problem I had with this episode was how helpless Cordy acted in one scene. I found it a little out of character. Cordy usually played a big part in helping cheer up the semi-dark series. It all did turn out fine in the end when Cordy came back bigger and better than she was before. It was completely awesome when she finally knocked down the wall to expose Dennis. This episode had just enough humor, wit, and suspense to make it a classic that you can watch over and over again.

I really like this episode. This was the first episode of Angel that I ever saw so it has a special place in my heart.

Doyle finds an apartment for Cordelia and all is perfect... for a while. Cordelia soon finds out that the apartment is haunted by a ghost who wants her dead. Meanwhile Doyle is in trouble with some goons. The gang decide to exorcise the ghost out of the apartment, but she is not having it. Cordelia stops freaking out and gets back to her old self. They solve why the ghost was still there and Cordelia's apartment is normal. Well, except for Phantom Dennis- her new roomate.

This episode makes me laugh and I love the scne when Cordelia tells off the ghost lady. Priceless!

Rm W/A Vu is definitely one of the strongest episodes of Season One. It had a great plot, and coupled with the usual great performances, made it a standout episode.



The story begins with Cordelia still living living in her roach infested apartment- such a long fall for a girl who's used to mansions and expensive cars. As usual, Charisma Carpenter's performance steals the show. She's hilarious as Cordelia, yet gives her a vulnerability that makes her likeable at the same time. I like her relationship with Doyle and do think she actually likes him but after being burned with Xander she doesn't want to go down that road again. The old lady was very creepy and evil- and the shock that she killed her son and not vice versa at the end was good. The whole Doyle owing demons money storyline wasn't all that great and I'd rather they'd added it in somewhere else.



The scenes were the ghost was convincing Cordelia she was nothing were very powerful and it's shocking to see that Cordelia, who as she puts it "takes crap from no-one" breaks down into tears at the abuse. I think she's feeling the aftermath of her selfishness at Sunnydale and has went from rich and popular to poor and unpopular. The line "She knows me" shows that she really does believe what the ghost is telling her.



Also the introduction of Phantom Dennis, Cordelia's friendly ghost. He has a minor role in the series but appears in quite a lot of episodes. I love Rm W/A Vu- it's a standout episode that provided a great insight into Cordelia.



Lines of the episode:



Demon: *shoots at ghost but hits fireplace, breaking a tile*

Old-Lady-Ghost: You broke it!

(great delivery of the line =L)



Cordelia: I'm not some whiny little Cry-Buffy. I'm the nastiest girl at Sunnydale High.

I'll admit it I'm not a big Cordelia fan. She has her moments but for the most part I just kind of tolerate her. I don't normally care much for episodes that are mainly about her. Accept this one, which I love. It also has a good deal to do with Doyle, who is one of my favorite characters. Truth is no matter how much they try to change Cordelia I'm always just going to remember how she was on Buffy. Which is really good for this episode, which to my idea has a great ending. The writers and actors really did a great job on this episodes. Made the 1st season a little more memorable for me.

Rm w/a Vu was a perfect episode of Angel. I really enjoyed watching this episode because Cordelia has a lot of character development. It was nice to start seeing her other side, her true side. I think this episode is where that really starts coming out and she moves away from her old personality. I thought the writers had a fantastic story. We also got to see more of Doyles character background coming to light which was cool. Cordelia had great scenes with Angel, and Doyle, and both of them at the same time. It was funny with the whole Peanut Butter on the bed thing. The whole ghost story was interesting too. I can't wait to watch the next episode!!!!!!!

A mainly Cordy based episode which showcases Charisma Carpenter's talents as a fine comic actress. Also showing his talent for comedy is David Boreanaz. The scenes where Cordy turns up in his apartment whilst he is in the shower and then just takes over are priceless. There is Angel, not getting a word in edgeways, clutching her luggage to his naked wet body, and unable to stop her. She switches off his music and then heads for his shower.

He makes a deal with Doyle to find her some place to live and he will sort out Doyle's demon problem. It is Cordy's dream place but has a ghost, in fact two.The special FX are great and the team's attempts at a spell are totally overwhelmed in rushing wind and flying objects.

Masses of great dialogue here. Very enjoyable.