Re-Watcher's Council | Angel S3E03 "That Old Gang of Mine" Spoiler Review

Gunn's old crew is back. They've gone from protecting their neighborhood to hunting anything with a demon face. And Gunn has to decide which side he's on. 🪓This week on Re-Watcher's Council, we're covering Angel Season 3, Episode 3: "That Old Gang of Mine" — the Gunn episode the show has been building toward since Season 1, and one of the most thematically rich standalone hours of the series.Gunn finds himself stuck between old and new allegiances when he discovers that a string of brutal, indiscriminate demon murders is the work of members of his former gang. These aren't the same people Gunn grew up fighting alongside — they've crossed a line from defending their community into killing anything non-human on sight, guilty or innocent. Harmless demons, demons who never hurt anyone, demons taking refuge at Caritas — none of it matters to Gio and the crew anymore. And when they take Caritas hostage and put a stake in Gunn's hand and tell him to prove his loyalty by dusting Angel, the show forces him to make a choice he can't take back.Angel's response to that moment is one of the best scenes of Season 3. He shifts into game face, looks Gunn dead in the eye, and says: "Take a look. This is what I am. Deal with it or don't. But make a damn choice." No manipulation, no appeal to friendship. Just the truth, laid bare.We also get Fred having a genuine hero moment — quietly wresting control of a hostage situation from a violent killer with the aid of a crossbow — which is an early sign of exactly who she's going to become. And the Furies are back, which means the show gets to make the joke about Angel's debt to them, and Cordelia's reaction is everything.