All episodes of Dollhouse to air
Fox have told Dollverse that all 13 episodes of DOLLHOUSE will definitely now air.
The episodes and air dates left:
1-07
“Echoes”
March 27, 2009
1-08
“Needs”
April 3, 2009
1-9
“Spy in the House of Love”
April 10th
April 17th – DOLLHOUSE off air due to Prison Break
1-10
“Haunted”
April 24, 2009
1-11
“Briar Rose”
May 1st, 2009
1-12
“Omega”
May 8th, 2009
1-13
“Epitaph One”
May 15th, 2009
After DOLLHOUSE finishes, we’ve been told a new series called “MENTAL” will be taking over the timeslot.
Update: we’ve been tipped off the May 15th airing of “Epitaph One” (yes, the finale) may be pre-empted by the Prison Break finale. No confirmation on that, and FOX says different.
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So…does this mean that Dollhouse is officially kaput after season 1?
Wouldn’t be a huge surprise, but if this is indeed the case then I’m sad nonetheless. At least Dollhouse gets a season finale (unlike Firefly), and Joss has this knack for giving us season finales that can also double as series finales.
there’s no way to know for sure yet – the season wouldn’t be renewed until May-ish, when they see how the rest of the series runs… And since it wouldn’t resume until fall at the earliest (and possibly could come back as another mid-season replacement), Mental probably will fill that time-slot for the summer…
Dollhouse is in the “we’ll see how it goes” stage, so being swapped out after the first 13 doesn’t really mean anything. The real test is in Fox either ordering or not ordering a full season for next year.
Thanks for this; I was hoping to find out the show’s fate. Even though I haven’t responded to it the same as I did for “Firefly,” I still find it compelling… at least, enough to draft an article in my spare time, haha.
http://screen.ology.com/2009/03/13/dollhouse-tara-and-multiple-personas/
I don’t usually sympathize with the world’s most evil corporations, but look at it from Fox’s point of view. They came into this expecting genius from Joss. Then they got a million-dollar pilot they had to toss in the dumpster. Then, halfway through the season, the ratings are still nowhere, and the big claim the show makes creatively is an episode 6 that basically admits the first five were done wrong.
Kevin Reilly lost his job at NBC for supporting The Office and 30 Rock, two really fine shows. He’s not going to lose his job at Fox fighting for a show that everyone knows he’s been very disappointed by.
And really, look around out there – the show just isn’t happening. Watching Dollhouse, a really nicely done website, closed this week. Even the hard-core Whedonites admit they’ve been disappointed overall.
I hope Joss wrote a season finale that wraps things up, because I’ve liked the show enough that I want to see who wins and who loses in the end. I mean, he won’t bring the Dollhouse crashing down because he was hoping for a second season, but we’ll probably see something interesting.
Oh, well. 95 percent of TV fails. It’s been a while since Joss connected, but he was so hot in the ’90s his luck had to even up a little.
Don’t sympathize with Fox. Ever. It’s THEIR fault the first episodes of the show didn’t live up to their potential. They put a leash on Joss, told him that the first few episodes had to be done a certain way, and he did it. That they didn’t work out proves they were wrong.
In fairness to Fox, they said ‘The Target’ was great, they wanted the thriller aspect, they asked for more funny – they even pitched many of the aspects which worked in episode 6.
man. fuck fox if they decide to cancel another joss show. what a douche network.
but it is gaining popularity. I’m seeing more and more people who are getting into the show. it’s been getting better and better every week!
even Buffy needed to time to get on it’s feet. this could do well too.
I think the show was doomed before it ever started. It’s such a shame, because it was good. Couldn’t another network pick it up? I guess I’m only hoping.
Its not funny. He can’t do it if he doesn’t make it funny, that’s how he can make us care for the characters before he kills them.
I admit I don’t understand the complaints I keep reading about the show. My wife and I both love Dollhouse and think it’s the best new show we’ve seen in a long time. The show is exactly what I was hoping for from the time I heard the premise. I think it’s a clever concept that’s been well cast and executed. It’s a heck of a lot better than 90% of what’s on network TV, particularly in the sci-fi category!
I’ve seen “1-08 Needs” and it was really good. I’m trying to get people to watch it, but it’s difficult, especially when the first few episodes weren’t that great. Hopefully it continues to improve.
This is probably a bad idea, you’re not going to be popular on the internet talking up network executives, but here goes anyway. I wrote for Kevin Reilly when he was running Brillstein-Grey’s TV division in the 1990s. Now, Kevin is a high-powered guy and very serious about being successful in this business, but he’d rather do it with quality. And he has a history that backs this up. He’s not a writer and doesn’t claim to be, but he goes to bat for good stuff. He helped guide The Sopranos through the development jungle. He didn’t write The Office and 30 Rock, Greg Daniels and Tina Fey did, but those shows wouldn’t be on the air without Kevin. He can be a formidable and intimidating guy when he doesn’t like what you’re doing, but he’s direct, honest and smart, he’s a force for good in this business.
And Kevin let Joss write his own ticket. And he sat back and waited for the brilliant pilot to come in. And Joss gave him Dollhouse instead. And then it got complicated, but if Joss had hit the pilot out of the park, it would have all been real easy.
And it isn’t just Kevin, or Fox. Look at the Dollhouse websites. Look at the discussion forum on this website. There’s thread after thread of frantic anticipation, and then the show premieres, and then the discussion goes dead.
It was the same way at Fox. They were really really excited. And then they saw the show.
Im a die hard fan of anything whedon but i am disappointed in dollhouse.The entire show was just based around eliza dushku stretching her acting talents each week. And its failed, due to poor writing, dull acting and with the lack of any humour, even very dry comedy, joss’s messages seem as subtle as being hit in the crotch with a hammer
However the man has created so much amazing content over the years that his entitled to at least another 2-3 more duds before anyone should doubt that anything with his name attached means quality. To those that love dollhouse i envy you, i really tried to like this show on so many levels but it disappoints on all fronts. And at the end of the day most whedon fans are disappointed in it.
Kevin Reilly is indeed a good guy. And, you know, many of the concerns which have been publicly (and, you know, privately) shared about Dollhouse – I share. And I run this website. But the show is what it is. Personally, I think it doesn’t quite gel together, and it’s difficult to put my finger on exactly why.
I do, however, think it’s disingenuous to say ‘most whedon fans are disappointed in Dollhouse’. Our opinions on what people think are based on people we know, so it’s difficult to get a full picture.
I think there’s things which work really well in the show. “Man on the Street” and “The Target” (second half) are, to my mind, brilliant episodes. I think, from a purely selfish point of view, it deserves another series just to see if they can make it hang together better. But from a business point of view, not so much.
What I think is funny is that people forget that Joss was brought into this by Eliza. She was signed to a series deal, and SHE went to Joss to get him back into the TV realm. If any of you fans remember, he was done with TV. This was Eliza bringing him back into the fold.
While I am not a big fan of Dollhouse, it has been entertaining, and with everything else going on in the world, that is all I ask from a TV show.
I think Joss would have better luck on Sci-Fi. I know Eliza was tied to her Fox deal, but…
Honestly, I think part of the problem is that Eliza is just not that good. In every thing I’ve ever seen her in she has 3 characters. Pissed-off-Faith, I-wanna-have-fun Faith, and drugged-or-comatose Faith.
I remember reading an interview with Eliza when she talked about how she and Joss came up with the premise for this show. Basically, they talked for awhile, came up with an idea that was mutually interesting, and Joss ran with it.
“Oh No”, I thought.
I feel that Dollhouse is different from other Whedon shows because it’s not something that he passionately needed to put out into the world. Not to say he’s not passionate about his work on this show now – just that this is a story that didn’t necessarily need to be told.
Hence the weirdness, I suppose.
Also, I always felt that Eliza Dushku had a good ‘presence.’ She might not be the most stellar actor but she commands attention, at least for me, when she is onscreen.
I’m enjoying the show and hopes it stays on the air. Haven’t missed an episode yet even though it plays on Fridays when I’d rather be out at the bar with friends. A lot of my friends are watching, though most are watching on the web. I don’t know anyone who has a nielsen box. It won’t surprise me if Fox cancels the show. TV has been losing its draw for a while now.
Everyone vote for this weeks episode on tv.com the score keeps dropping.
http://www.tv.com/dollhouse/echoes/episode/1244282/summary.html?tag=ep_guide;ep_title;7
I’m enjoying the show, but I agree it needs work. Then again, the first season of BtVS is my least favorite of that show. All of my favorite shows seem to take a good year or two to work out all the kinks. And I have enough faith in Joss (no pun intended) to believe he’s building toward something this year, which would lay a solid background for a stellar season two. Assuming Fox gives him the chance. Kinda exactly the same situation Firefly was in. My favorite thing about Joss is how he builds a story slowly, which heightens the anticipation over time. Unfortunately, TV today does not seem to accomodate that kiind of storytelling.
The first two things that need to be said before you rip Dollhouse is that making entertainment is difficult, and that Joss Whedon could write nothing but crap the rest of his life and he’d still have a career most writers would envy.
But it does seem like Joss is at a difficult crossroads as a writer. In a business sense, I’m not sure you’ll see Joss on TV again. Sci-fi is too expensive for cable, and Joss’ audience is too small for Fox. There’s not a lot in between, is there?
In creative terms, you know, if Joss wants to quit writing comedy, that’s his right, every writer gets to grow and change. Shakespeare stopped writing comedy as he got older. But the thing is, Shakespeare got real, real good at writing drama. Joss is a guy whose drama has been good enough for a guy who was pretty funny. If he wants to retire from comedy, his drama skills as they are don’t quite cut it. You see it again and again on Dolhouse. The telephone-call scene with the kidnappers in the premiere. The cult leader speaking as the building starts to burn. The scenes are flat, they just sit there, there’s no tension. If Joss wants to write straight drama, he’s got to learn to make those moments pop.
In fairness to Joss, he didn’t write the cult episode.
I’m actually hoping Joss does a sitcom or comedy show at some point. I’m serious, he could knock it out the park, get paid a whole bunch and not lose his life in the process.
the first season of buffy was AWFUL. Give Dollhouse time.
Joss Whedon is not writing buffy anymore, not on tv. Let the man be different. stop comparing episode 1×7 to bandcandy. stop asking the show to be more whedonlike. God can’t anyone let artists be different? WHY DO YOU WANT MORE OF THE SAME? Sure its good but come on!
We don’t want more of the same. We want more of the good.
^ What Anonymous said.
I actually really like this show. And I was never big on the Buffy, Angel, Firefly thing. Not that they were horrible. But Dollhouse just seems a little less Star Trek for me. Hope they don’t cancel it.
bhò.. i think that if fox cancel dollhouse, they will never see joss and eliza anymore. because the fucked deal eliza signed with fox 6 years ago for tru calling and imprisoned her in a real dollhouse, is over in july. then she will be free, and after fox cancelled tru calling, nurses, dollhouse.. i think isn’t coming back for another show, right? joss was already worried to work with fox after firefly, but he wanted to do this experience with eliza and as i said she was under contract: after dollhouse experience he will never touch any script for a fox’ show.
and then: why is fox so douche to keep the last episode??? i will never watch any fox’s show. and for those like house and bones: thank god bit torrent exist!!!
im not a fan of everything joss did in the past: i think firefly was one of the worst show ever, please do not kill me XD,,
but dollhouse is something really exciting and interesting and i never heard about the show before to watch the episode 5 two weeks ago. i hope for a renewal as everyone here.
PS: maybe you think eliza is not a good actress, but she is damned hot! can you say the same about some actor/actress are not both? such as ‘david caruso’ or ‘meredith grey’??
I’ve read over and over again that the show needs to be funnier. But I don’t see why the show has to be funny. If funny moments come so be it. In fact a strong case could be made that some of his best shows are the one’s that break our hearts. Comedy is just another way to tell the truth of the story, but I don’t think it needs to be applied like a condiment or some secret ingredient to gain public approval.
That said, I feel like we’ve seen two episodes of dollhouse. The first five had good moments and I think they introduced us to the show, but I don’t believe they represent as clearly as these last two why we like his shows. What I have liked most about these last two shows is that we are finally getting larger glimpses into the ensemble as a whole, something which was missing from the first episodes. I believe this is even more important for this show than previous shows of his because the “We vs. Them” dichotomy and the complicated conficts and cooperation (with the enemy)in this show is a tangled web that wants to be sorted out, but may not be easy. It was easy to root for the scoobies, angel investigation, the crew on firefly, but here we have stepped into a much more complicated world. For this reason it is even more important that we need time to look at those characters that we are less likely to identify with, within the dollhouse and out.
Also, to bring up the ‘comedy’ bit again, I’m not sure how many people get HOW dark the show is and what is exactly implied by having your memory wiped. If I remember correctly, Tara wasn’t exactly thrilled.
Typically, I like to wait and see how the show is before I comment too much on it. We still have half a season left. That is a lot.
ryan i’m totally agree with you. what all whedonsites have to understand is that dollhouse is not buffy or angel or firefly or dr.horrible. and dollhouse cancellation won’t bring back none of them!
it’s a bulls**t that fox won’t air the last one episode that would be the series finale!! what do they think? to put it in the DVD so every fans of the show would buy it?? this is so insane!!
Joss makes characters that people love, and it works just like real people. We have to “hang out” with them for a bit before we become enamored. I’m a huge fan of Buffy, Angel and Firefly and just like with those shows the more episodes of Dollhouse I watch- the more I like it.
But more importantly than that- has anyone considered the time slot here? I’m 26. Most of my friends love everything Joss makes and are in their mid-late twenties. Friday nights are not television times for us, so we end up watching later online. Move it to Tuesday nights and the picture could change…
The show has some big flaws, and this is not “i want buffy back” talk… there is just some stuff that dos not make sens, feels odd and so on.
It´s not even Echos acting… it´s more like the situations theyput her in make no sens, there have been like 4 doolgoofups in 7 Episodes… characters that are just not good (the nerd thoper or whater he is spelled) and the fact that we are watching the evil guys dos not help either… (The FBI guy seems to be the only Hero, and he is barly on in most Eps)
The stong Points of Mr. Weedons TV and Comic work have been structure, characters and dialog… this show barly had anything off these qualetys.
BTW. Buffy and Angle are still going on, Joss is writing Season 8 of Buffy (25 Issues) and Season 6 of Angle (15 issues i belive) as a Comic.
I have only read the first three Buffy TPBs so far, but it´s just as good as it was on TV… go get your fix over there. =)
by the way, just to mess with people’s rooting interests – it seems to me that the airing of the last episode might be a BAD thing if you are hoping for a second season. they might be thinking of holding back an episode for next fall, or it might contain series-ending kind of stuff that they don’t want to air if the show gets renewed.
so if you want a second season, you may want to hear that the final episode WON’T air this spring. just the kind of secret-meaning stuff that’s appropriate for a show like this.
To be honest, there’s so much bad press about Dollhouse that they could not possibly renew it even if Fox executives wanted it. They’d probably get sued by the shareholders, or by the producers of the pilot that missed out, if they tried. One might actually argue that Fox should have abandoned Dollhouse as soon as the scripts for the early episodes came in and they realised that the series was not up to their normal high standards, and anything they were legally obliged to produce should probably have been dumped on BitTorrent or buried in the bowels of the Library of Congress, allowing Fox a clear conscience to the extent companies have one.
I can’t imagine Fox are particularly worried about not being able to work with Joss Whedon or Eliza Dushku or Tim Minear in future; they’d probably be glad for them to never darken the door of their lobby again, as long as they reimburse Fox for their wages and royalties and for the enormous losses Dollhouse has caused, not just for Fox but for the wider economy.
fox gained more money from the dvd sales of firefly and serenity than prison break, OC or terminator until now. they shuold kiss joss’s ass and worship one of his idol. dollhouse will be the same
This is a little off-topic, but it’s been bugging me all season, and I finally figured out why over the weekend. And I respect you guys, you’re smart and you’re honest, so I want to put it out there and see if anyone agrees.
The show just keeps solving all of its main character’s perilous situations by saying there’s a guy outside in a black van with a gun, and he came in and saved the day. It’s like the Auxiliary Control Room in Star Trek, they just won’t leave that device alone.
On an action storytelling level, there’s just something basically wrong about this. Would Mission: Impossible have been better if there was always a guy waiting outside in a black van with a gun in case the IMF force got into trouble? I think there’s a reason they didn’t do Mission: Impossible that way.
Maybe I’m overreacting. But I think the implications of this are enormous. What if this becomes acceptable? Think about how may classic scenes would have been cheapened and degraded if this sort of thing had been okay. What if there had been a guy in a black van with a gun waiting outside the Death Star in case Luke Skywalker’s light-saber fight with Darth Vader went bad? What if you unfroze the ending of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and found out that a guy had come out his black van with his gun and killed all the Federales for Butch and Sundance? Would that have been good?
And it’s a trick that would work for only so long. Pretty soon the bad guys would start having their own guy in a black van with a gun, and the Dollhouse would have to send out two guys in two black vans with guns, and it would turn into a horrible arms race.
I’m sorry, I’m going on, I think you get the idea. But I do some writing myself and this offends me. We have to stop the madness. What I’m proposing is, the writers of the world meet in June in a neutral place, like Helsinki or somewhere, and sign an accord that they will never solve climactic action sequences with the guy coming in from the black van with his gun ever again. It won’t be retroactive, the Season One Dollhouse DVD can come out exactly as is. But in the future writers will have to try harder.
Thank you for sitting through that. I feel much better now.
i respect you too, but i just think you expect too much from a scy-fy show: have you ever seen the first season of buffy or BSG? or dead like me or supernatural?? these are the kind of show which get better and better in the time. i think every doll needs its guy in the black vagon, because without the imprinting they are vulnerable as children. adelle said it in the second episode and as we saw in the fourth episode, echo seemed like a comato-crazy-girl. an active could be dangerous for its obiective and its client too, so boyd or hearn are the ‘guardians’ which look out of their own dolls. tom cruise was good enough to take an entire mission alone. an active: no! sorry for my bad english
Yeah, but… if the Dolls are so bad and unreliable, who’s hiring this organization? I thought the idea would be that when properly programmed, the Dolls were super-efficient machines better than any private investigator. Why pay millions for some unstable zombie who’s probably going to screw up the mission? Why the white slavery? Why the policeman-killing? Just open a private investigation firm, and hire professionals.
Sorry. I didn’t mean to hijack this thread. But it bothers me, is all.
I just wish Joss would do the writing. It would HAVE to be better.
where is the post about episode 7?? was the best one so far, I want to talk about it!!1
The FBI guy is not good, he hit that girl. That’s the problem with this show, EVERYBODY is CREEPY and has no conscience, even the black guy handler of Echo, he may seem good but he works for the company that imprisons these girls, there’s nobody to root for in this show but Echo, but we the audience don’t even know who she is! That’s the problem with the show, it should’ve started BEFORE she entered the place so that the audience has an emotional connection with who she is. You can’t root for somebody who doesn’t have a character, and Echo right now is blank, even with what happened the last episode, she’s still unknown.
Tuesday, and there’s no review thread here or at Active Dollhouse. Are all the DH sites closing up shop?
I just have to point out that once again, Boyd had to catch the bad guy Friday night. The Actives are the most incompetent special agents ever created, despite the human-rights outrages needed to create them.
Really, think about how mad you’d be if you paid millions of dollars for the most advanced operatives science can devise, and a vanload of drooling defectives showed up and started wandering around your lawn, having flashbacks and alternately forgetting and remembering how to do their jobs. The greatest threat to the Dolls would be their swindled employers trying to kill them in justifiable outrage.
It’s a no-brainer: if I had a job I needed done, I’d just hire Boyd to work on the weekends. He probably charges a fraction of what the Dollhouse does and would get the job done without any screw-ups.
On a real-world level, a nice thing I can say is, Harry Lennix always does lovely work. I’d never seen him before, but if you look on imdb he works constantly, which is only right. Sometimes even screwed-up shows serve as showcases and springboards for talented actors, and I hope Dollhouse winds up being a good thing for Harry and for Amy Acker. They’re really good.
maybe this organisation is in-development. but the man on the street said that ‘dollhouse’ is an urban legend, so it did exist in the past. maybe we will find out what is the real job of an active in the finale. but now i’m already satisfied of the show.
The “swindled employers” are to blame for experimenting with a drug that they didn’t fully understand. And the dolls weren’t the only ones forgetting and remembering how to do their jobs, it was EVERYONE who came into contact with the drug.
The Dolls can be anyone you want them to be; anyone you MAKE them to be. The Dolls themselves aren’t flawed, it’s how they’re modified by the people who use them. I personally feel it’s exciting to learn more not only about Dolls and their experiences, but the people behind the Dollhouse operation.
This show explores beyond the terms of black and white that painted Buffy and Angel. You can stand there and let your inhibitions take over so you can bitch about how everything is creepy, evil, bad, blah blah…or you can look at things in a bit differently. There is good beyond the bad – Joss has his classic baddies, and then he has the bads with layers, with more to them.
You need to give characters a chance, just like you do with people in every day life.
Okay, I was partially messing around with my “swindled employers” charges. Some of us are venting are frustrations with the show in various ways here.
But I stand by my basic point. That was the fourth time in seven episodes when the Actives failed to function at crucial moments. And the guy in the black van had to fix things.
And that messes with the premise of the series. As I understand it, this is a show about an unscrupulous organization that creates insanely high-functioning operatives at a terrible moral price. If the Dolls don’t really work, all the motivations come apart and the situation becomes ridiculous. Who’s paying money for these screw-ups? Why are the operators of the Dollhouse subjecting themselves to extreme legal peril when private investigators would do the job better?
You see flashes of the show done right. The Echo that Agent Ballard encountered in the kitchen was an absolute nightmare of an adversary. You couldn’t find a person like that, you would have to create one. Joss has to make the Dollhouse normally function at a deadly level of effectiveness to make his premise make sense.
Is revealing character while you play an action/adventure series while you mix in comedy difficult? Of course it is. But that’s the job. I assume Fox paid Joss lots of money. Joss got his million-dollar set. Joss got his commercial time reduced by half. Joss has to deliver the goods, or face the fate that every other messed-up show faces.
Does anyone know another dollhouse site???
this site is very much lacking updating, no comments on episode 7 for the whole week???
it was the best episode…and no trailer for episode 8 as well?? I´m giving up on this site, any recomended site for dollhouse fans???
please…
http://dollhousewiki.fox.com/
Trailer looks exciting.
"…..the series was not up to their normal high standards…". this portion of a post from above nets the funniest thing i've read all week award. 'fox' & 'high standards' in the same sentence! i laffed so hard i almost passed out
Joss needs to learn a lesson from this if Dollhouse gets cancelled — STOP working with Fox! Fox is notorious for killing perfectly good shows!
If Dollhouse gets cancelled, I’m going to have to give up on the intelligence of the general viewing public altogether. It’s complex enough to be interesting, but, apparently, more than most people can cope with.
I’ve never gotten really attracted to a show.. But damn dollhouse.. every Friday i would get up off my bed and jump over the T.V. just to watch it.. I’ve Never liked FOX.. i have like Joss’s shows such as Buffy, and Firefly, but Joss should have realize they screwed up his show once.. what makes you think they won’t do it again.. When Dollhouse gets canceled I’ma stop watching the Fox Network.. and Joss Needs to realize when he is being a little b!tch
Cancel Dollhouse and NO ONE!! i mean No One will ever watch Fox’s Shows Again…
Fox is Joss’s P.I.M.P
FOX Network should be shut down… Since they like shutting down things anyways. The should just shut down their company because after the cancellation they are going to be selling drugs behind an alley way…
Don’t Cancel Dollhouse, trust me it will get better!!!
Joss Whedon… Your shows inspire people, and makes them have a new way of thinking. Do us all a favor.. Save the show.. But if you can’t i hope you never work with FOX again.. Because fine work shouldn’t be with a horrible network like Fox.
Fox Suks
I agree that with each new episode the characters are developing. You can see the writers are getting a better grasp of the plot, and the actors are getting a feel for who they are portraying. Most shows start off bad, and after the first season blow everyone out of the water. Fox has a show with so much potential. Instead of axeing it they should develop it more, and I agree change the show time to a better time slot!!! Why don’t they bring in an actor with a bigger fan base. The guy from firefly is playing Castle now on ABC. That show also is slowly developing, but if it succeeds it is only because of him. Bring Echo some inspiration!!
If You Give It A Chance It’s AWESOME!
I am not bashing Fox by any means if this is what they choose to do, but I would hate to see a great show not continue simply due to a networks decision. Shows have been picked up by other networks before: I Dream of Jeanie, Family Matters, Get Smart, Taxi, Jag, Bionic Women etc… I personally never watched Bionic Women, but from what I understand it aired on ABC for two seasons (1976-1977) and was cancelled from ABC and then picked up by NBC for only 1 season from (1977-1978) See Wikipedia. I realize that it may have not been successful on NBC, but my point is at least give Dollhouse a CHANCE to succeed. Parents don’t throw their child out, because they haven’t hit their peak yet. They give them time to grow and succeed and if Dollhouse has to be adopted by a new network so be it!
It started off slow (IMO). Once you get into later episodes of the show it becomes filled with juicy plots and a deeper understanding of the characters. I believe there’s so much more this show has to offer and we have only seen the tip of the iceberg.
I really hope some television network picks up Dollhouse because it’s great, heck I think ABC should pick it up and teach Fox a lesson if they don’t like a television show that: is entertaining, makes one question their own ethics, and sparks the imagination. We can think of it as ABC’s What Would You Do in a SciFi way!
Also it’s worth mentioning I really enjoy looking at the atmosphere and design (The Set) they created for the show.
Geeze Friday night one night and flip through the channels and guess what: the fifth episode of Dollhouse had just started. Had not seen the show before and had heard about it on one of the late night talk shows. Had nothing to do so I figured I’d give a new show a try for once.
My reaction: I was quite interested in the show and decided I had to catch up in order to figure out what the hell happened before etc. I can honestly say that I am impressed by the all the acting as it has not once annoyed me (maybe the Apartment Cop at times). And now theres a lot of speculation of not getting a season 02? Heroes is on their what (soon?) 4th season now? I just had to stop after the 2nd season its just getting awful.
At this rate I’m really interested in watching upcoming seasons and seeing where this leads to. Great show great roles and god damn addicting dollhouse is. I mean cmon. The first new show I’ve began to watch in like a few years and its “likely to get cut?” Not cool.
This show is actually a lot less expensive to produce than, say, Firefly or Angel. It could be picked up by another network (SyFy?) but not likely with it’s ratings. More likely is a series of direct-to-disk movies. Joss’ series have always made a ton more on disk than they do on TV, and this one has an establish brand name and fan base. We could be witnessing the existance of a world without Fox! Yay!
Okay all i’ve read so far is blah blah dollhouse yay- dollhouse nay. buffy yay- buffy nay. No matter what you’re opinions are, Buffy The Vampire Slayer was one of the most unique and intellectually comic shows of our generation. The movie wasn’t great and Joss admits that, due to his crew who didn’t understand. But if Buffy and Angel were as sucky and horrible show’s as you all may think then why the hell was it on the air for 7 years? And why was it translated into five plus different languages and a worldwide hit? And why did three networks offer to pick up the show after the WB had to cut it due to a new series? That doesn’t sound like a deadbeat show to me. You know what i’ve realized about Buffy, Angel and Dollhouse, you have to actually have some intelligence to understand the whitty comdey, and the stragely unique story lines. As far as dollhouse goes, it’s a wonderful show. It’s so creative, but from some of the feeble minded people posting dumb things on here, just because you think the entire show was created just to show that Eliza Dushku has a soft side then you’re an idiot. The shows great, end of story. If fox doesn’t like it that’s because it’s a show that has more too it than preppy girls crying because their boyfriends have had a spring fling for the past six months, and because most people don’t have the mental capacity to surpass a third grader probably can’t understand what they’re saying because they’re using big people words.
I swear.
Please don’t cancel Dollhouse! It’s so good…
Dollhouse is very smart and complex TV with a storyline that unfolds very slowly. The storytelling and quirky characters (many of whom are embodied in dolls, of course) reminds me a lot of Firefly, with a caper-of-the-week laid overtop an over-arching, mysterious, full-of-dread, story.
Because it’s smart, and because it’s complex, and because it’s often subtle (and it hasn’t got the right levels of sex and/or shoot-em-up) it will not appeal to the masses. But most of the other shows I’ve loved were the same, and they didn’t last more than one or two seasons (Firefly, Dead Like Me.. and the jury’s still out about Californication (okay, lots of sex there), Sanctuary). Dexter seems to defy the pattern, but then again, it’s not on Fox.
Ideally, Dollhouse will move over to SciFi, and Joss Whedon can be given the time and space (no pun) to develop the story and the characters.
Anonymous april 21 is corect in his assessment. just because most people sit on their buts to watch tv dosent mean they need to stare blankly at the tv and drool (not that everyone does)some moron up there said and i quote ” once again, Boyd had to catch the bad guy Friday night. The Actives are the most incompetent special agents ever created” so what your saying is you would rather see a show were there is NO conflict than one with it. for the love of god thats naive, we know that there are other branches of the doll house, and while it may seem a litle soap opera-ish, the branch that we viewers follows seems to have most of all of the trouble.
p.s. im sorry for those of you cant or can, and just wont put out the effort, to use your brains to help follow the show
Ok which one do you guys like better Tru calling or Dollhouse? and which character Tru or Echo/Caroline.
I personally love the show both shows alot, I loved every episode of Dollhouse and I think its going really well not one episode goes by that I don’t go wow…the only one I could say I didnt like so much as the rest is the back up singer one..but besides that its really amazing
It seems like all the people who don’t like this show agree that it’s not funny enough. Well guess what? It’s not a fukin’ comedy! It’s sci-fi folks. If you don’t like sci-fi then why are even watching? Personally I think this is the best show that’s aired since Buffy and Firefly. And the network didn’t even give Firefly a fighting chance. It’s a hella lot better than the other crap that’s on tv now-a-days. But maybe that’s the problem. Only crap survives. Though if that’s the case then I fear for the life of our world.