Editing Angel (1999 TV series) (section)

== Setting and filming locations ==
Much of ''Angel'' was shot on location in Los Angeles, where it is also set.<ref name="INSERT NAME">Various authors, "{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20060507131332/http://www.restlessbtvs.com/trivia/category/behind-the-scenes/sets-and-locations/ Sets and Locations]}}", ''The Ultimate Buffy and Angel Trivia Guide'' (updated 2006).</ref> "Los Angeles" are the first words spoken in the premiere episode,<ref>Episode, "City of", ''Angel'' (1999). Angel says: "Los Angeles. You see it at night and it shines. Like a beacon. People are drawn to it. People and other things. They come for all sorts of reasons."</ref> and the cityscape is the first image seen in the opening credits. Joss Whedon said, "It is set in Los Angeles because there are a lot of demons in L.A. and a wealth of stories to be told."<ref name="autogenerated2" />  Producer [[Marti Noxon]] has expanded on this explanation: "Los Angeles was the place that Joss Whedon picked for very specific reasons. There's a lot of preconceptions about what the place is, but there are a lot of truths. It's a pretty competitive, intense town, where a lot of lonely, isolated, and desperate people end up. It's a good place for monsters."<ref>Topping, Keith, ''[[List of Buffyverse guidebooks#"Hollywood Vampire"|Hollywood Vampire]]'', (3rd edition, includes Season 4) ''Virgin Books'' (2004), page 1.</ref>  Many episodes feature references to the city, and the opening episode of the second season features Lorne offering this observation of the city:

{{blockquote|In this city, you better learn to get along. Because L.A.'s got it all: the glamour and the grit, the big breaks and the heartaches, the sweet young lovers and the nasty, ugly, hairy fiends that suck out your brain through your face. It's all part of the big wacky variety show we call ''Los Angeles''.}}

In the essay, "Los Angeles: The City of Angel" (from the essay collection, ''[[Reading Angel: The TV Spin-off With a Soul]]''), Benjamin Jacob explores why Los Angeles in particular should be important to the series. Jacob suggests several explanations: first, the name connection ('City of Angels'); second, the double-sided nature, the "other side of the stereotypical sunshine city, Beach Boys and Walt Disney", "the place of pain, anonymity, alienation and broken dreams".;<ref name="jacob">Jacob, Benjamin, "Los Angelus: The City of Angel", from Abbot, Stacey (editor), ''[[Reading Angel: The TV Spin-off With a Soul|Reading Angel]]'', ''I. B. Tauris'' (September 22, 2005), page 77</ref> third, American noir was originally a "Los Angelian genre".<ref name="jacob80">Jacob, Benjamin, "Los Angelus: The City of Angel", from Abbot, Stacey (editor), ''Reading Angel'', ''I. B. Tauris'' (September 22, 2005), page 80.</ref>  ''Angel'' was originally conceived as supernatural noir. Noir had continued investigation of the "dark city, a place of regression and darkness as a counterpoint to the city's promise of progress and civilization" that had begun under [[William Blake]] and [[Charles Dickens]].<ref name="jacob83">Jacob, Benjamin, "Los Angelus: The City of Angel", from Abbot, Stacey (editor), ''Reading Angel'', ''I. B. Tauris'' (September 22, 2005), page 83.</ref>

During Season 1, Angel Investigations is based in Angel's apartment. Actor [[Alexis Denisof]], who played [[Wesley Wyndam-Pryce]], said: "Angel had this dark, foreboding, underground cellar apartment with columns, with this antique furniture all around, and this pokey little office upstairs"<ref name="autogenerated1">""Inside the Agency" featurette ''Angel'' Season 2 DVD set, disc 3 (2002).</ref>  These offices were blown up at the climax of the first season, and Angel Investigations found a new base in the episode "[[Are You Now or Have You Ever Been]]".

Production designer Stuart Blatt outlined the new base: "An old hotel, something [the writers] could use to evoke the past of Los Angeles and some of Angel's history, something kind of creepy and spooky but not too dark because they didn't want something depressing, it's called the [[Hyperion Hotel]]. It's based on many hotels in Los Angeles... Angel lived in a larger suite in the hotel, like a honeymoon suite, the producers wanted Angel to have enough room to relax and get away from it all, do a little pondering, a little brooding, and a little research. Every once in a while, someone will come up to have a little conversation."<ref name="autogenerated1" />  In the final season, the team moves to the evil law firm, Wolfram & Hart.