RIGHT! I don't remember season 3 being popular at all, if anything I remember the message boards of the time hated a lot of what they did that year with Angel becoming a father and everything else, so I was really surprised to see it suggested that season 3 was the universal favourite season. I would keep Forgiving on that list because I really thought that episode was great, but there was soooo much terrible filler in between those arc high points. Dad, Provider, Couplet, Double Or Nothing, The Price! It didn't even start particularly strongly either.

It was definitely a season that would have really benefited from the shorter seasons on cable, even some of the arc episodes were stretched out, Darla's return for one really didn't need all three of those episodes and could have lost the middle part of that three-parter easily