Dollhouse was the story of Echo/Caroline who enters the Dollhouse to basically prostitute herself for five years. She becomes aware that something is fucked behind the scenes and we follow her as she puts it together over the course of 26 episodes. Now I don't want to blame Fox for all the good shows getting the axe, but a lot of them are on the network. I will say that not much could have saved this show from cancellation as it's ratings were pretty shitty even on a Friday night.
This picture alone should have been enough.
The idea of someone's mind being wiped and imprinted with a different personality is interesting and Dollhouse explored the moral and immoral benefits or consequences or even potential that this technology might have. In the end the basic message was, imprint = bad.
Before that we saw Echo as an assassin, a dancer, a housewife and mother, a serial killer, a robber and an old chick. Some of these were awesome, and some of them were fucked.
Echo and Sierra should have been lezza's.
Other characters in Dollhouse included some of the other "dolls" including Sierra, played by Dichen Lachman, Victor, played by Enver Gjokaj, and Whiskey, played by Amy Acker. We also had Agent Ballard, played by Tahmoh Penikett, Adelle Dewitt, the boss of this Dollhouse, played by Olivia Willams and resident genius Topher Brink, played by Fran Kranz. Harry Lennix played Boyd Langton who was Echo's handler and was an ex cop or something.
I liked the twists and turns this show took when it was on form which unlike other Joss shows, was not as often. Maybe it would have worked as a film. Also, Like Buffy, Angel and Firefly/Serenity, Dollhouse also has a canonical comic continuation by Dark Horse but it's not a continuous series like Buffy and Angel.
Mannequins. Because, why not?
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