In "Belle Chose," writer Tim Minear and director David Solomon delivered the best, completely standalone episode of Dollhouse since last season's "True Believer."
How did TVGuide.com describe "Belle Chose"?
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Last season, we saw Echo deliver a baby while on an engagement. Now, it's time for her to have her own child. You know, without that pesky delivery thing.
"Instinct" largely took a break from advancing the grand arc and instead focused on Echo's imprinting as Emily, a woman designed to serve as the replacement mother for Jack and wife to Nate, whose real wife died giving birth to their son...
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Welcome to the second season of Dollhouse! No doubt, the shock of being granted a second chapter wore off long before the Fourth of July, but I hope fans remained excited enough to tune in. No need to wait for unprecedented DVD sales and feature film follow-up with this one, a la Firefly. With "Vows," Whedon & Co. springboard off their first season and deliver a Dollhouse (the show, the building, the staff...) inherently changed by Alpha's run of the place last spring.
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With the appropriately titled "Omega" (the final letter in the Greek alphabet), Joss Whedon brought his literally mind-bending drama Dollhouse to a close for the summer, and quite possibly for good. The episode promised to reveal Alpha's past and his true plans for Echo. I certainly can't accuse Joss and Co. of not delivering on that promise. However, while the serial delivered a satisfying enough season finale, there are still a number of lingering questions about the Dollhouse, its owners and most importantly, its residents.
"Go help Victor! Quickly!"
The episode picked up pretty much right where we left off. It seems history is doing that thing where it, you know, repeats. The Dollhouse staff is in a panic after Alpha ...
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After a self contained outing last week, Dollhouse returned to its grand arc with "Briar Rose." It brought Whedon vet Alan Tudyk into the fold, paying off on a long standing mystery and finally allowing actor Tahmoh Penikett onto the shows' main set.
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Dollhouse returned to Fox's Friday night line-up this week with "Haunted," an Espenson, Tancharoen and Whedon (That would be Jed, not Joss) scripted episode dealing with life after death.
How did TV Guide describe the episode?
"After a friend of Adelle's is slain, Adelle has Echo programmed with the dead woman's memories and personality in order to find the killer. In other events, Ballard investigates Mellie's past and Topher imprints Sierra for a secret engagement."
For the most part, that pretty much sums it up. Your posts for "Spy in the House of Love" indicated that you all felt much like I did. It was a terrifically paced and ...
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Who would have thought fusing Dollhouse with Rashomon would lend the show a storytelling device needed to deliver its most fast-paced episode yet? In "Spy in the House of Love," we followed our four main dolls on their individual engagements — which added up to a wealth of revelations, plot twists and resolutions.
The episode began near the end of the story. I found myself asking the type of questions usually reserved for the teaser of an episode of Lost: Where are we? The Dollhouse. Who are these people? The staff. And what is that lightning? It's the result of a procedure a little more intense than the normal imprinting.
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This week's episode, "Needs" (aka Dollhouse: The Awakening), put the Dolls front and center in an amalgamation of Lost, The Great Escape and Buffy's "Tabula Rasa." Up until now we've seen Dolls break engagements, develop feelings for one another and, increasingly, glitch like mad. But what if they emerged from their sleep pods as the person they were before the Dollhouse? But, you know, without all those pesky memories.
Despite being short on Agent Ballard, the episode both began and ended with him. In a dream sequence, Paul ...
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Dollhouse 2.0: Whedon Strikes Back continued to build on the 'verse it expanded on big time last week. Revelatory flashbacks told the story of Caroline's path to "volunteering" while the entire staff from the Dollhouse was given a long overdue chance to shine. The episode was Grade-A Mutant Enemy: Smart, funny and bursting with twists.
Welcome back to TVGuide.com's Dollhouse blog. I was glad to see that the readers were so ...
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In this highly touted, game-changing episode, Agent Ballard's quest for the truth finally came to a head this week, while the Dollhouse staff investigated the abuse of Sierra.
If you're reading this, you're no doubt interested in the public's overall opinion of the show. It's clear that the chief criticisms of the program are its lack of Whedon wit and the standalone nature of the stories coming from the writers' room.
While just this week Joss spoke with TVGuide.com about the lack of funny, the knocks on the show's pacing have been around for quite some time. For weeks, the Whedonites ...
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