Conversations with Dead People
TV & Film
What initially seemed like a pretty vague thematic grouping of episodes to discuss winds up proving to have some metaphorical meat on its bones. Returning friend Melanie Scala helps me find the significance of episodes 217, “Disharmony” and 218, “Dead End” beyond just the twin sides of the “where do we go from here” coin. In the former, a typically vacuous Harmony reconnects with Cordelia, somehow managing to conceal her newfound vampirism, and along the way maybe(?) helps the gang begin the process of figuring out what the new group dynamic will be. In the latter, Lindsey gets an evil hand and teams up with Angel to blow up the body shop, and along the way maybe(?) helps the gang continue the process of figuring out what the new group dynamic will be.
And then episode 219, “Belonging,” nominally just a prologue to the three episode finale arc we’re discussing next time, actually ramps up the “what IS our new dynamic” angst, and gives us our first tentative introduction to our beloved Winifred “Fred” Burkle.
BONUS: an inappropriately long tangent about the science of brushing your teeth. You’re welcome.
NEXT: the aforementioned three-episode finale arc! South-of-the-border friend and fan Johnny Ho takes a long, strange trip with me as we journey to Pylea and wrap up the season with episodes 220, “Over the Rainbow,” 221, “Through the Looking Glass,” and 222, “There’s No Place Like Plrtz Glrb.”
BREAKDOWN
00:00:55 - Intro / Guest
00:09:10 - Main Topic
01:35:20 - Outro / Next
MUSIC
“Conversations (feat. Wesley Mead)” by Azura (2017)
“LA Song” by Christian Kane, Angel: Live Fast, Die Never (Music from the TV Series) (2005)
Episode 62 - Dirty Girls / Empty Places (feat. Dale Guffey)
Episode 61 - Get It Done / Storyteller / Lies My Parents Told Me (feat. Elizabeth Rambo)
Episode 60 - Potential / The Killer in Me / First Date (feat. James Rocha)
Episode 59 - Bring On the Night / Showtime (feat. Vickie Navarra)
Episode 58 - Sleeper / Never Leave Me (feat. Tami Anderson)
Episode 57 - Conversations with Dead People (feat. Eric Sipple)
Episode 56 - Help / Selfless / Him (feat. Michael Adams)
Episode 55 - Lessons / Beneath You / Same Time, Same Place (feat. Theresa Fortier)
Episode 54 - Two to Go / Grave (feat. Elizabeth Rambo)
Episode 53 - Seeing Red / Villains (feat. Elizabeth Rambo)
Episode 52 - Normal Again / Entropy (feat. Elizabeth Rambo)
Episode 51 - Older and Far Away / As You Were / Hell’s Bells (feat. Jessica Hautsch)
Episode 50 - Gone / Doublemeat Palace / Dead Things (feat. Eric Sipple)
Episode 49 - Tabula Rasa / Smashed / Wrecked (feat. James Rocha)
Episode 48 - Once More, With Feeling (feat. Arlo Wiley)
Episode 47 - Life Serial / All the Way (feat. Stephanie Graves)
Episode 46 - After Life / Flooded (feat. Faith Currant)
Episode 45 - Bargaining, Part1 / Bargaining, Part 2 (feat. Elizabeth Rambo)
Episode 44 - The Gift (feat. Michael Holland)
Episode 43 - Spiral / The Weight of the World (feat. Margaret Ann Robbins)
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