In which Angel gets hijacked by a third-wave feminist screed

There is a legitimate complaint to be had about how the character of Cordelia Chase and her actress, Charisma Carpenter, were treated in the closing seasons of Angel, a.k.a. the greatest television show ever made. The short version is: Carpenter got pregnant, Season 4 was rewritten to make Cordelia possessed by a demon that would then give birth to itself, Carpenter was fired at the end of the season and then brought back for one episode in Season 5 just to kill her character off.