Dollhouse

Now that the Dollhouse: Season One DVDs are about to come out, I feel it’s the right time to post a review. If you haven’t been watching the show, this is Joss Whedon’s latest series. He’s the creator of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and Firefly (which became the film, Serenity) among other work. He’s earned a reputation among the science fiction and fantasy fandom world as a "geek’s geek" who can bring humor and drama to mainstream television without watering either down. He’s also a fan of tackling hard problems. He started with the unlikely heroine: the quintessential stereotype blond cheerleader, put her in a dark alley with a scary monster and... watched her wipe the floor with it’s creepy carcass. In Firefly, he tackled the western in space... a hard sell by any measure.

Now comes Dollhouse. This show’s premise is simple: there are a group of people who have figured out how to replace someone’s memories and personality including complex skills like fighting or hostage negotiation. They then "zombify" supposedly volunteer subjects, give them a blank slate for five years (or so they say) and periodically rent them out on assignment to the rich and powerful for everything from sexual encounters to something akin to special forces operations. It’s all a matter of what you want or need and what you can pay for.

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