While Joss Whedon’s groundbreaking teen series Buffy the Vampire Slayer proved to be a perfect combination of coming-of-age-themes and fantasy mythology, its spinoff Angel proved to be much deeper and darker than its predecessor. While there are more than a few television spin off shows that were completely forgotten, the vampire Angel (David Boreanaz) had been a supporting character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and deserved to take control of his own narrative. If Buffy the Vampire Slayer used its fantastical elements to examine adolescence, friendship, and romantic yearning, Angel took a darker approach to its subject with its deconstruction of evil and story of redemption. Angel showed the banality of evil, and why the battle between light and darkness is doomed to last forever.