Dollhouse

Joss & Dolls - A few years ago I bumped into Eliza Dushku at an airport cabstand. The charming actress was brimming with excitement at having just done her first David Letterman appearance and told me all about it as we waited for our respective rides. Since then, Dushku has long past the point where yakking with Dave would seem like such a big deal. At the same time, despite a slew of roles from Bring It On to the recently released Nobel Son, Dushku surprisingly has never quite hit the star status many expected ever since she showed up playing the evil and compelling Faith on season three of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

That’s about to change.

Teaming up again with Buffy creator Joss Whedon, Dushku returns to network TV on February 13 with Dollhouse. The series, which Dushku also produces, is about a team known as the “Dolls” or the “Actives” who hire themselves out for good deeds, bad deeds, fantasies and other tasks. Sounds like pretty standard TV fare, right? Yep, but like everything Whedon, whose last series Firefly just didn’t take off with viewers, does, there is a great twist that makes all the difference. In this show, the team has their memories completely erased after every job. With every new job they are imprinted with new personalities and information, both psychological and physical. The possibilities for the new Fox series, which doesn’t hide its debt to The Matrix, with a teaspoon of Logan’s Run stirred in, are limitless and made all the more intriguing with Dushku’s character of Echo beginning to gain some semblance of permanent consciousness.

Book your playtime for the Dollhouse now.