Angel - 1x21 "Blind Date" FULL REACTION

Sam Anderson plays Holland. The first place I saw him was as the principal in Forrest Gump.

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Or perhaps Gunn would correct her. His line about "cater to the demon, cater to the dead man, but what about the black man?" is a reference to the famous Green Lantern black skins panel. Cordy always goes to Superman. She once compared Buffy to Superman. Does she not know any female superheroes?

Rachael

He is perfect as Holland Manners. Warm, fatherly exterior with an unsettling, unspoken threat underneath. It is especially chilling when he sits Lindsey down to talk with Lee's blood still on Lindsey's face. Holland reads Lindsey like a book and plays the seduction routine expertly.

Rachael

It seemed like Sam Anderson (Holland Manners) was everywhere in the 80's and 90's. He was Principal Dewitt in Growing Pains (kinda similar to Snyder on Buffy), Mr. Gorpley in Perfect Strangers, he had a small part in Forrest Gump, he was in an episode of Friends (played the crazy doctor who loved Fonzie). He's one of those faces you see here and there but not usually in a starring role.

Steve Quast

idk if you've seen Lost, but Holland was on that.

Bisibia

Tonight on an extra special episode of Angel, our hero, the vampire with a soul, faces his greatest threat yet... Eliza Dushku's stunt double.

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zzzzzzz "I nodded off. Did you get to the part where you're evil?" That never fails to make me laugh because yes, Angel could take Lindsey seriously and put more work into him like he did with Faith and Marquez, but he just worked with a huge group of traumatized kids who are living in abject poverty on their own, and not only do they choose to NOT do evil, but they risk their lives to fight evil. "You always have a choice. It may not be a good choice, but you have a choice." That may be from Buffy 207 "Lie to Me," but it serves as a mission statement for both shows. Lindsey is more interested in power than he is in doing good. He doesn't feel remorse for the evil he has committed and enabled in the past. He just found himself at a particular line (killing children) that he did not want to cross. But he's still a tiny bit conflicted, and he looks like a child himself in that huge suit at the end. I don't know if that was deliberate, but it worked.

Rachael

Sexy Tai Chi payoff! Those shots of Angel being very controlled and still with both the guard and Vanessa wouldn't have been possible without all those nights of shirtless, sexually tense Tai Chi sessions with Buffy. There was a point to all that. ;)

Rachael

Spoiler alert: Gunn returns in this episode.

Steve Quast

I never tire of Gunn code switching here and using white supremacy to play them.

Rachael

I think I've taken this episode for granted, it is quite good. All the scenes between Holland and Lindsey are just perfect — so tense, and the actor who plays Holland is wonderful. And the inverse parallel between Angel and Lindsey, where Lindsey is feeling the tug of morality while Angel misses the clarity of evil. Angel actively chooses to pursue redemption, while Lindsey believed he didn't have a choice. I always wonder if Lindsey would have made the same decision if Angel had been as empathetic and encouraging as Holland was, though I get why he wasn't.

KT

Watching two shows, an original and its spin-off, is definitely the right call. ... This episode is quite good overall and obviously can pique one’s interest with the mysteries scroll. ... I think the mind readers are kinda hot. ... Cordy mistakes blind assassin lady as being Superman when she is clearly more akin to Daredevil. It’s a good bet that Xander would have corrected her. ... It WOULD have been awesome to see Willow there, but you can’t have everything. Anyway I love every little bit of connection that can be established between two sibling shows. That is never not cool, ever.

Koz

I love Gunn in this one - he just looks like he's been waiting forever to waltz into a place like Wolfram & Hart and stir up some trouble. Him screaming "Is that my foot you just stepped on?!" while you probably could have fit a mastadon between him and everyone else in the lobby is just hilarious to me.

Bean's friend

Another Angel 🎉🎉🎉 It feels like my birthday 🎈Thanks Liam ❤