NOTE No worries , I ' ve gone even longer when it comes to Angel and PoI . It happens . When I said that PoI S 1 doesn ' t have extraordinary episodes , I meant that it doesn ' t have an IfThenElse or a Devil ' s Share . Person of Interest , by contrast , has those four aforementioned episodes which most fans would agree are some of the best Angel ever had . While I will say that I Will Remember You feels like a really good Buffy episode , the other three are the episodes in which Angel really broke away from its parent show and established its own identity . PoI feels . crisper ? I think that ' s fair , and it holds true for the entire series . They had a higher budget for fight choreography , shot in HD , and used modern weapons . In the first season , I feel like Angel had a bit more personality . It ' s definitely funnier , and early on there ' s more pathos and thematic clarity . Remember that Root and Shaw weren ' t around to liven things up back in season 1 . Angel made it clear from the getgo that it was a show about redemption . It certainly benefited from having preestablished characters , but Angel , Cordelia , and Wesley were the least interesting people on Buffy . Angel the show had to remake them as interesting characters first . I think that the strength of season 1 of Angel comes from its thematic potency first and foremost . Although . there were one or two really , really bad episodes in Angel S 1 . Expecting the pregnancy one and She scrape the bottom of the barrel for sure . PoI never really set a foot wrong . In light of that , I think it ' s a reasonable claim to make that POI season 1 is superior . NOTE I ' m playing Devil ' s Advocate as much as I ' m arguing from sincerity . I think that both series outgrew their first seasons very quickly and thank the PTB for that , but that each first season started off swinging and did a valuable job of pointing the show where it needed to go . Overall , I also like Person of Interest more than Angel # 2 alltime vs . # 3 . I do have one more thing to say on behalf of Person of Interest ' s first season . My father and I watched the first season live when it aired , every Thursday night . I was always busy with one thing or another back in high school and I never spent as much time with him as I should have , but we always had Person of Interest . Looking back , the techspeak blew straight by him , and he never set aside that time for the show itself . Not that I could appreciate that when I had the chance . Spend time with your parents , kids . Or you ' ll regret it once you can ' t . Take it from someone who learned the hard way .