Dollhouse

By Charlie Jane Anders Random thought: I am willing to bet this episode was written for season one and held over — because Paul Ballard wasn't in it, and I have a feeling writers Maurisa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon wrote it for a Ballard-less Dollhouse, then couldn't revise it to make Ballard fit in.

By Brad Trechak In another surprise, they redid the graphics for the opening credits and they're better. Does anybody else make up lyrics while listening to the theme or is it just me? If so, what are your lyrics? Mine begins with "This is the Dollhouse. We're in the Dollhouse. This is the Dollhouse song."Cont...

By Myles And with an episode like “Belonging,” which was definitely one of the best the series has done, you kind of want to be able to enter into a place of being unaffected by the scheduling drama that has all but signalled the end of the series sometime in early 2010. It’s not that we’re surprised at t...

By Lauren Davis Dollhouse It looks like Paul Ballard and Echo are going to lock lips in an upcoming episode, but that doesn't mean Paul has completely given himself over to the Dollhouse. Tamoh Penikett says that although Paul's been drinking the Kool-Aid a bit, he's going to have more issues with his new c...

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By Lauren Davis Long before Dollhouse, even before Buffy graced our television sets, Joss Whedon wrote Afterlife, an action-packed screenplay about memory transfers, human slavery in the name of scientific research, and the problem of two personalities battling over a single body.

By Myles So when the show got a second season against every oddsmaker, it was kind of surreal. On the one hand, as someone who liked what the show did at the end of the season, I was excited to see that Joss Whedon and Co. would have an entire summer to figure things out and put themselves in a position to rea...

By Roco Here’s the best of the latest from the Dollhouse.. Zap2It interview with Tahmoh Penikett: Continue below the jump for Joss Whedon interviews and a behind the scenes look at the season 2 Dollhouse photo shoot: Joss Whedon talks about the struggles defining Dollhouse in season 1, and how he b...

By Charlie Jane Anders The good news is, all the scenes not involving Jamie Bamber are potent, and mostly thought-provoking. There are some hilarious one-liners and a few really sick, disturbing scenes that twist the knife marvelously. And any time Amy Acker is on the screen, the show becomes the brilliant, lum...

By Eric Almendral The Dollhouse and its engagements seldom make sense. When Echo glitches and Dushku has to flit between personas, the performance is almost comedic. Twelve-year-old Adair Tishler did a better job of it as Iris in "Epitaph One." Epitaph One."

By Roco Q: How will “Epitaph One” change things within the series itself? Joss: We are going to see her as we know her, and then we are going to see something very different. That is pretty much all I can say. Joss: Not nearly as much as we would like, but we are going to make the most of her in those few episo...

By Lisa The premiere isn’t for a couple more weeks but we already have a review of the first episode.  This one comes from IGN and overall, it’s positive.  Especially what they say about Amy. This will sound like a bit of a broken record on the heels of other recent Dollhouse reviews, but the best part of...

By Cal Kemp In this set, we get 12 aired episodes, an original pilot and “Epitaph One”, the only-screened-at-Comic-Con season/series finaleish type deal. The regular episodes, admittedly, start kind of slow but do show off the charming camp element of the series’ basic setup. It’s not really until...

By marta@martaacosta.com (Marta) Here's the new poster for the second season of Joss Whedon's "Dollhouse," starring Eliza Dushku. Whedon had told Fox that he would go along with their stuupid ideas for Season One, so I'm hoping to see more complexity and the wonderful Whedon dialog and character development now that he's...

By Charlie Jane Anders I'm not going to transcribe the entire interview, but I'll summarize it in case the video is hard to listen to. (We were at the crowded SyFy/Entertainment Weekly party, and Tyrese Gibson and other celebs were running around.) Oh, and there are spoilers for the first season of Dollhouse, inc...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) Comic Con: Summer Glau and Alexis Denisof to Appear in Season 2 of Dollhouse?Mystery Team, Richard Kelly, Ninjas and More Invade Comic-Con 2009Chuck Renewed, Sarah Connor Chronicles Gets Canned/Filmcast Ep. 49 - X-Men Origins: Wolverine (GUESTS: Elisabeth Rappe from Cinematical, N...

By TV Obsessed(noreply@blogger.com) I hope you understand what happened from my synopsis. Large doses of Felicia Day and Amy Acker made the episode really cool. This episode makes me really excited for the rest of the series even though the science behind it seems cheesier than ever. I can understand why Fox never aired it (thoug...

By Fred I really enjoy the show. I was a huge "Buffy" fan, and I find much of the trademark Whedon dialogue in use within "Dollhouse". Several of the actors really deliver the lines well, including Eliza Dushku ("Echo") and the most excellent Alan Tudyk, who gave the best performance in the series as...

By Graeme McMillan Fox didn't renew "Dollhouse" because the show's fans would have been sad about the Joss Whedon show's untimely death. Fox doesn't care about how viewers feel (you saw "Moment of Truth," right?). No, Fox renewed "Dollhouse" because it thinks it can make money off the project — enough to keep...

By BennyC Terminator Then there's my poor Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Fox's other beleaguered sci fi franchise. I had put off watching the season (series?) finale of the show for a week or so not--as with Battlestar Galactica--because I feared it would be unsatisfying in any way,...

By BennyC Terminator Then there's my poor Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Fox's other beleaguered sci fi franchise. I had put off watching the season (series?) finale of the show for a week or so not--as with Battlestar Galactica--because I feared it would be unsatisfying in any way,...

By Charlie Jane Anders But the most interesting thing, for me, was the whole debate over who Echo is. Is she going to "erase" the Dollhouse, like Dominic thinks? Will her growing awareness and cleverness finally bring the house down around her? Or will she save the Dollhouse, as Adelle believes? Could they both b...

By Alasdair Wilkins Joss Whedon stopped by Harvard last night to receive the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism, and we were there to hear him wax philosophical, talk Dollhouse, and settle the Whedonverse's most important debate.

By DarkUFO(noreply@blogger.com) Let's hit the good news first. Airlock Alpha has learned that Fox is looking to give its struggling "Dollhouse" a second season, to see if it can grow some legs on a new night. Fox had originally intended "Dollhouse" to air Mondays with "24," but Fox instead decided to move "House" to that spot...

By Myles I had more fun with the human side of this storyline, which shall from now on be referred to as “the episode where everyone became just like Topher.” I was disappointed the episode didn’t pick up on the conspiracy within Dollhouse at all, and I never like a lack of Amy Acker in my television ser...

By Daniel Donahoo True, Whedon always pushes towards darkness in the end, but Dollhouse appears pretty dark from the start. Let's face it, the Dollhouse is basically a high-end form of human trafficking – and that isn’t really a nice thing. The whole ambiguity of conscience around whether these people real...

By Roco Here is my ‘good and bad’ review for Dollhouse episode 1.04 “Gray Hour”. Anyway, this was a decent effort in comparison to the first 3 episodes. I just want the show to do it’s own premise justice. This episode offers hope, but the clock is ticking and I’m not sure if 9 more episodes are enough.

By Charlie Jane Anders Tonight's Dollhouse episode is clearly better than last week's Britney-wants-to-die splashorama. We got an early review copy a while back, and here's our spoiler-free exultation. When we begged Fox for review copies of Dollhouse episodes, they sent us copies of the first two episodes... p...

By BennyC What do these have in common? You know, outside of both being on Fox on Friday nights. They both see a huge spike in their ratings when timeshifting is taken into account, that's what. In fact, Terminator has the largest ratings gain on TV when you factor TS in--a detail that may save the show fr...

By BennyC What do these have in common? You know, outside of both being on Fox on Friday nights. They both see a huge spike in their ratings when timeshifting is taken into account, that's what. In fact, Terminator has the largest ratings gain on TV when you factor TS in--a detail that may save the show fr...

By Tabz As most of you know, I was a DVD convert to the Jossverse. So this is my first Joss Whedon TV premiere and I was very happy. I’m prepared to really really love Boyd Langton. He really stole the show. Also, Joss is right. Tahmoh should be shirtless more. Best scenes? Amy and Eliza together. “Does someone take care of you?” - Hauntingly tragic and amazing. I was prepared to hate this show, especially given the negative reviews it had garnered. I was prepared to give Joss a pass and chalk it up to studios messing with a master piece. I also was prepared  to remember that I didn’t fall in love with Buffy, Angel or Firefly on their pilot episodes (I actually thought all the pilot episodes were pretty dull).   [read the full post]

By Charlie Jane Anders Meanwhile, in the episode's "B" plot, Tahmoh Penikett blunders around some more and finally stumbles on a lead. Unfortunately, it's a lead bullet, in his stomach. That scene where he takes out four armed guys was pretty great, actually. And we finally learn - I think - that Tahmoh's source, L...

By Roco Overall I’ll give this a 7/10. A generous score, but this is purely on the basis of “Dollhouse” standards, and not any of the other shows that I watch. Don’t get it twisted, I’ve rated some really good episodes of other shows 7/10 that blow this out of the water.

By Roco “Ghost” Has No Soul.. …but it had some heart. That’s my conclusion from watching...Dollhouse 1.02 - “Target” Last week’s episode wasn’t very good, even by ‘Pilot...1.01 “Ghost” Review - The Good & The Bad Here is my ‘good and bad’ review of Dollhouse... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Re...

By Fred Here's my take on the premiere of Joss Whedon's "Dollhouse". I watched the premiere of "Dollhouse" last weekend. So, before I give my first impressions of the show, I should point out that I am a full-out Joss Whedon fanboy, with "Buffy", "Angel" and "Firefly" among my all-time favorite sho...

By Charlie Jane Anders Only one episode of Dollhouse has aired so far, but creator Joss Whedon is already talking about abandoning broadcast television for the Internet - permanently. Even though I've been loving Dollhouse, I'm happy at the thought of more quirky experiments like Dr. Horrible, and I welcome th...

By Charlie Jane Anders 5) Shirtless Tahmoh. Okay, so the kickboxing scene was kind of random and cheesy, but it was also the least complicated moment of sexiness in the episode. And Tahmoh Penikett is pretty much awesome as the FBI guy who's barking up the wrong tree in his search for the Dollhouse.

Amy Acker (an actress I’m happy to see anywhere) is the seemingly fragile doctor who cares for the Actives. - zap2it.com Try as much as you want, Mr. Whedon. No amount of artificial scarring will ever make Amy Acker ugly. - tvsquad.com …even Amy Acker’s presence is a warm welcome… - ifmagazine.com

By Roco Surprisingly, I didn’t enjoy any of the Paul Ballard scenes. Sorry, I know that his passionate fans will think differently, but what a let down. Don’t get me wrong, I think that Tahmoh Penikett will become one of the best things about Dollhouse, but something went wrong there. Not sure it was h...

By Hugh Hart Secrets of "Seven Pilots": At the network's request, Whedon crafted Dollhouse as a series of free-standing episodes. This Grindhouse-style trailer from Fox promotes Dollhouse as a Friday night follow-up to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

By Tempo It’s a relief that “Dollhouse” (8 p.m. Friday, WFLD-Ch. 32; three stars) is finally premiering. Since news broke more than a year ago about Joss Whedon’s latest project, an action-adventure series about an operative named Echo (Eliza Dushku), there has been an endless stream of media repor...

By Alan Sepinwall(asepinwall@starledger.com) Getting back to what you said earlier about how the audience has to care about Eliza in whatever mode she's in in a given week, the one constant is her as Echo. But Echo, as we're reminded over and over, has very little personality to her. When she's Echo, do you expect the audience to care for her...

And while there are many excellent actors in “Dollhouse” — Olivia Williams plays Adelle DeWitt, the person running the place; Harry Lennix is Boyd Langdon, the Actives’ handler and DeWitt’s unrequested moral compass; Tahmoh Penikett is the relentlessly persistent FBI Agent Paul Bal...

Quote:"I didn't have the highest expectations going in -- the idea of house of programmable human "dolls" who go out and do things for their masters had me worried. But Dollhouse had great depth and richness not only of the adventure plot, but also of the character relationships. I guess I sh...

Were there any plans to do tie-in videogames for Angel? Your role in Alias was very different from Angel, did you enjoy playing the bad guy? What can you tell us about your character in Dollhouse? Will you be a series regular or recurring? What’s it like being in another Whedon show?

By Graeme McMillan Another review of the first episode of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse has appeared online, and like the first, it describes a show that could be excellent. Time to get nervous yet? Dollhouse premieres Friday, February 13th on Fox. Review: Welcome To The Dollhouse [The TV Addict]

By Fred is the latest effort from phenom Joss Whedon and stars Eliza Dushku (formerly "Faith" on "Buffy: The Vampire Slayer" and "Tru" on "Tru Calling"). The series sports an intriguing plot, centering around Dushku as young woman named "Echo". In a nutshell, "Echo" is a member of a program that wi...

By Graeme McMillan Time Magazine's James Poniewozik has seen the first episode of Joss Whedon's troubled Dollhouse and - appropriately for a show about characters with multiple personalities - he can't quite make up his mind about how good it is. I Have Seen Dollhouse [Tuned In]

By Graeme McMillan As recapped - and it's hardly the easiest to read recap, I'll be the first to admit - the episode offers a lot of what you'd think that Fox would want to see - Eliza Dushku in the shower! Explosions! Dryhumping! - in amongst the creepier mindwiping and programmable personalities that Whedon...

By DarkUFO(noreply@blogger.com) And finally, young Steve DeKnight, after writing and shooting an ep so cool it helped not only define the show but save its ass, is ending his consulting duties, the f#%&er. I will be crying on the shoulder of Jane Espenson come Monday, so congratudolences are in order. Excited for the Ja...