Dollhouse (Fox, 2009- )

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Synopsis: Dollhouse follows an organization that employs mind-wiped DNA-altered humans known as Dolls who are implanted with false memories and skills for various missions and tasks. When they are not on a job, they retreat to their headquarter the Dollhouse, run by Adelle DeWitt, Olivia Williams, where they are kept in a state of oblivion with no memory or personality, waiting for the next mission. One of those mind-wiped humans, a young woman named Echo, Eliza Dushku, is slowly starting to become aware of herself and what's going on. All the while an FBI agent Paul Ballard, Tahmoh Penikett from Battlestar Gallactica, is obsessed with the Dollhouse trying to prove its existence and expose it to the public in order to bring it down and save Caroline, the alter-ego of Echo.

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Just finished watching the unaired episode 13 of Dollhouse, the Joss Whedon latest Sci-Fi series, which was leaked to the internet. Listen guys, this show is a must see! It started of kinda generic and not what you'd expect from the creative mind that brought us smart shows like Firefly, Buffy, and Angel, but that just lasts for 3 or 4 episodes, then the series goes in full throttle to the bizarre world of Whedon. This episode I mentioned is flash forward set in the 2019 and shows the dystopian world where this imprinting technology goes public and destroy the world.

- They really though they were helping, ha? Giving people what they needed, is this what we needed?
-  No, kids playing with matches, and they burned the house down.

They show miraculously got renewed for a second season after Fox dumped it on Friday nights where it got terrible rating. Hopefully this year it will find new audience in its second season. Meanwhile, I think you guys should check it out. And overall, the first season deserve 4/5. 

[kaytee]

The problem is that Eliza Dushku is so damn hot that there is no way she can play a tough cookie thus making the show totally unbelievable.

[sandeep]

Damn, I thought this would be based on the novel, A Dolls House, which was really good...

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The problem is that Eliza Dushku is so damn hot that there is no way she can play a tough cookie thus making the show totally unbelievable.

That is as bogus for an argument as it gets Kaytee. Tough Cookies are hot by default throughout TV and film history, even in videogames they are hot. Some examples from TV: Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy Summers, Buffy The Vampire Slayer), Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck, Battlestar Gallactica), Jessica Alba (Max Guevera, Dark Angel), Jennifer Garner (Sydney Bristow, Alias), Anna Torv (Olivia Dunham, Fringe), Lena Heady (Sarah Connor, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), and Summer Glau (Cameron Phillips, Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles/ River Tam, Firefly).

As for cinema, the list goes on: Michelle Yeoh, Angelina Jolie, Uma Thurman, Mila Jovovich, Kate Beckinsale, Carrie-Anne Moss, Lucy Liu, Rebecca Romjin, to bloody Demi Moore. Those gals are all hotter than Eliza Dushku, who by the way built her fame on playing tough/bad girl roles.

Beside the show is not about her playing action figure all the time, and frankly that is the concern because she is not that great of an actress. In the show the active or doll is imprinted with the personality that the client specifies, so in each episode she is either a backup singer, a hostage negotiator, a blind helpless girl who infiltrates a cult, etc. I say check out the show before you judge, and be patient with it after the initial a few episodes that are modeled as self contained "case of the week" episodes, and I think you will feel rewarded after finishing the whole run.   

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Joss Wedon's Dollhouse is easily one of the best shows on TV now. The problem is it is doomed and will be cancelled for sure by the end of this season because no body is watching it. Fox is burning through it to get it over with, they air two episodes every week.

If you wanna watch an excellent sci-fi, check it out. Don't mind the mediocre first 5 episodes of season one which he made to appease the network. As for the second season, it is absolutely excellent and not to be missed.