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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	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Producer	John Norris
Running time	8-10 minutes
Original release
Network	Crackle
Release	March 2 (2009-03-02) – March 13, 2009 (2009-03-13)

Angel of Death is an action web series created by Ed Brubaker. The series stars Zoë Bell as Eve, an assassin taking revenge on her former employers. The series also features Lucy Lawless. It is 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.

Plot

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.

History

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.

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.

Other formats

Once the show finished its original online broadcast, it was released on DVD, with new footage. The DVD was going to be released in June 2009, but instead ended up being released on July 28, 2009.

A feature-length compilation of the web series was broadcast on Spike TV and was available for viewing on Hulu until 2017.

Cast

• Zoë Bell: Eve, the assassin.
• Lucy Lawless: Vera, Eve's next-door neighbor.
• Doug Jones: Dr. Rankin, who helps Eve after her head trauma.
• Vail Bloom: Regina Downes
• Ted Raimi: Jed Norton
• Brian Poth: Graham Prescott
• Justin Huen: Franklin
• Jake Abel: Cameron Downes
• Monica Staggs: The Madame

Episodes

References

1. Bender, Bobby (2009-09-05). "Zoe Bell is Crackle's 'Angel of Death'". Tubefilter News. Archived from the original on 9 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
2. Vineyard, Jennifer (2008-08-21). "Ed Brubaker Chats Up His 'Angel of Death' Online Series Starring Zoe Bell". MTV. Archived from the original on 13 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
3. "Angel of death" (Press release). Sony Pictures Entertainment. 2009-01-09. Archived from the original on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
4. "Angel of Death". Hulu. 2009-03-13. Archived from the original on 2011-02-23. Retrieved 2011-03-05.

External links

• Angel of Death at the Internet Movie Database
• Ed Brubaker at the Internet Movie Database
• Zoe Bell at the Internet Movie Database
• Lucy Lawless at the Internet Movie Database
• Paul Etheredge at the Internet Movie Database
• Ted Raimi at the Internet Movie Database

• 2009 web series debuts
• 2009 web series endings
• Crackle (streaming service) original programming
• Crime web series
• American drama web series
• Works by Ed Brubaker
• Action web series