| Angel of Death | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Action |
| Created by | Ed Brubaker |
| Directed by | Paul Etheredge |
| Starring | Zoë Bell Lucy Lawless Doug Jones Vail Bloom Ted Raimi Brian Poth Justin Huen Jake Abel |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | John Norris |
| Running time | 8 to 10 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Crackle.com |
| Original run | March 2, 2009 – March 13, 2009 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Angel of Death is a web series of eight to ten minute episodes created by Ed Brubaker. The series stars Zoë Bell as Eve, an assassin taking revenge on her former employers, and costars Lucy Lawless. Angel of Death was produced by White Rock Lake Production and distributed by Sony Pictures Television. The episodes were released on Crackle from March 2 to March 13, 2009.
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The show is a thriller about the assassin, Eve, who is employed by a ruthless crime family. After suffering a severe head trauma (knife through her head) while on the job, she begins to hallucinate and becomes haunted by her victims. As a result of her injury, Eve is driven to seek revenge on those who ordered the hits in the first place—her mob employers.[1]
While developing the story about a cold-blooded killer growing a conscience, Brubaker's original idea for the series was a hitman afflicted with brain cancer, but then remembered watching a scene in an old PBS documentary series where a patient walked into the ER with a hunting knife stabbed right through his skull, and drew inspiration from that for Eve's head injury. Angel of Death is Brubaker's first online series.[2]
The show reunites Lucy Lawless, Ted Raimi, and Zoë Bell - who all worked together on Xena: Warrior Princess. Bell was Lawless's stunt-double on the long-running series.
Once the show has finished its original online broadcast, it will be released on DVD, with new footage.[3] According to the letters page in Brubaker's Incognito, the DVD is due to be released in June 2009.[4]
A feature-length compilation of the web series is available for viewing on Hulu.[5]
| Title | Original Airdate | # | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Edge" | March 2, 2009 | 1 | |||
| The viewers are introduced to Eve, who winds up in a bad way after a botched job. | |||||
| "Conscious" | March 3, 2009 | 2 | |||
| Eve visits Dr. Rankin (Doug Jones), hoping he can extract the knife from her skull. | |||||
| "Workday" | March 4, 2009 | 3 | |||
| Eve goes back to work, helping to take out Jed Norton (Ted Raimi), but can't quite keep it together with her visions. | |||||
| "Made Man" | March 5, 2009 | 4 | |||
| In an effort to make her visions go away, Eve pays Arthur Max a violent visit. | |||||
| "Escape" | March 6, 2009 | 5 | |||
| After getting trapped in Max's office, Eve must fight her way out. | |||||
| "Help" | March 9, 2009 | 6 | |||
| Eve ends up in the care of Vera (Lucy Lawless) while her rivals try to get a handle on the situation. | |||||
| "Old Man" | March 10, 2009 | 7 | |||
| Going after the big boss, Eve only finds a sick old man and his weeping daughter, Regina Downes (Vail Bloom). | |||||
| "Innocent" | March 11, 2009 | 8 | |||
| Graham (Brian Poth) has figured a way out for him and Eve. But Regina makes sure her brother Cameron (Jake Abel) puts a stop to that. | |||||
| "The Hunt" | March 12, 2009 | 9 | |||
| Finding both Graham and Vera dead, Eve moves in for the kill at the big boss' funeral, which the Downes siblings are attending, along with her old protege Franklin. | |||||
| "Absolution" | March 13, 2009 | 10 | |||
| Bursting into the funeral puts Eve at risk, but it is one she's willing to risk to avenge Graham's death. | |||||