Dollhouse (2009)

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What's the story about?

I'm sold!

OK Demetris (**SOME MINOR SPOILERS**):

The story is that there is this company called Rossum who have developed a scientific method to give human hosts different personalities, with the host having no idea that his or her personality is fake; all around the the world are these secret houses with 'blank' people inside them, called actives or dolls, who can be imprinted with different personalities, muscle memory, skills and talents, and 'hired' by a client. Sometimes law enforcement or the government will hire an active to help them with undercover sting operations, sometimes an uber-rich individual will hire them for "relationship" sessions (almost like a prostitute) - but where the hooker genuinely believes they are in love with the person who hired them. The house is secret, known only to certain extremey wealthy and/or powerful people, but there are rumors amongst the common populace that the house exists.

Each of the dolls are named after a letter in the phonetic alphabet - Alpha, Echo, Sierra etc. - and have a mysterious "past", which tells how they came to be in the Dollhouse in the first place, which gets revealed as the show goes on. The main character is a doll called Echo (Eliza Dushku), and it's through her that we find out what the Dollhouse is, and what it does. Each doll has a handler who makes sure they are OK while out on assignments - Echo's is a man called Boyd (Harry Lennix), and then there's the tech people (a geek/nerd called Topher played by Fran Kranz), and the manager of the Dollhouse (Olivia Williams).

So each week Echo has a new assignment, and we follow her and what she does; but then there's also this overarching storyline about the Rossum Corporation and what it's ultimate aims are; the political shenanigans behind the scenes, the threat of a former male doll called Alpha who had some problems and went psycho and escaped, and an FBI agent called Paul Ballard who has found out about the Dollhouse and wants to bring it down because he thinks it is immoral.

There's much much more to it than that, but basically that's the gist of it.

Olivia Williams? She's attractive, but I've never thought she was hot. I LOVE her character though!

Echo, or Eliza Dushku, I wouldn't say was particularly pretty, but yeah, she's hot.

This is an intellectual debate by the way, I like it.

Oh Dushku's definitely hotter than Sutherland.

Btw, at what point does the season start getting "really good" in your opinion? I'm still on the formulaic contained episodes and plan on watching eps 5 + 6 tonight.

The cliffhangers are good but are resolved too quickly for my liking. I am hoping for more "wtf?!" stuff that takes a few episodes to be answered.

I agree.

(I love constructive posts).

Btw why doesn't anyone say anything about how LESS HOT Miracle Laurie looks in comparison to the rest of the.......babes!

Thank God for the un-Tv-fairism of tv music by Giacchino then

Yeah, I think 'nice' is a more suitable word. But personally I think she's hot too.



It wasn't the best one, I have to admit. I still enjoyed it though.

Wow, I didn't think that episode was going anywhere (Remy!) but the last fifteen minutes were awesome. The twists were cleverly done as I thought [spoiler]Mellie was going to be a doll and someone wound tamper with Echo's imprint[/spoiler] quite early on, but they had so much other stuff going on that by the time it was revealed it was still a surprise.

The only bummer was ending it with a stupid musical montage, I despise shows that do that, unless Giacchino is on board and we get something along the lines of Hurley's Handouts rather than a badly fitting pop song.

Yeah, episode 6 is a flavour of what the show is really capable of.

I liked the song they used at the end of Epitaph Part 1, specially written for that episode.

No idea. But there are a few 720p uploads around.

You are correct, sir.