Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

'Dollhouse' has such a good concept that failure would be a big surprise. In the hands of Joss Whedon, a capable showrunner, it shines. 'Dollhouse' stars 'Buffy' alumna Eliza Dushku as an agent of a secret organization that completely erases the minds of its operatives and replaces them with a temporary artificial mind that is perfectly suited to each individual operation. This means that if they're tasked with a hostage mission, they will implant the mind of a hostage negotiator into their agent - and if their customer wants a night of perfect sex, they will implant the mind of a high-class prostitute.With this concept the show can go pretty much anywhere in its standalone episodes - there's nightclubbing, bank robberies, woodland hikes with human hunting, stalked pop stars, religious cults and of course a misunderstood FBI agent trying to uncover a conspiracy. Actually I think that one of the faults of the show is that it has too few episodes that center around a single operation ordered by a client of the Dollhouse.Mostly that doesn't matter, though, as the main story arc of the show launches early and is very suspenseful and compelling. The places Season 2 goes are really unexpected and the show is constantly pulling the rug from under your feet.

My first thought after finishing it all these years later after it aired and was canceled was this: this must be what people felt when Firefly was canceled.If you pay attention to Whedon's work from the past and his perspective on something in particular: feminism. You'll see that this whole show could be a metaphor for a man trying to be a good ally. Right up until his execution of an exploration, of what is certainly an examination on society and specifically how women are treated in it but not limited to just women. And while it's doing this it missteps. It's widely known FOX stepped in and messed with this (most predominantly the costume wear and hyper sexual themes, go figure and making Echo a less empathetic character from the get go), but the entire way it does not ever try to assert that it's showing you something that is terrible and is NOT condoning these things. All of the men in the show, including Paul, who is trying to find Caroline (Echo), throughout the first season missteps frequently. "Pleasure" workers, gender spectrum, grief, mourning, identity -- humanity. And even more, all the while being hamstrung. But the heartbreaking thing is not that it obviously could have done much better, but that a show that decided to examine these things in such a way was also attacked at the time for doing so. I remember watching the show initially myself and not getting into it, which -- this thing definitely has pacing issues. But I can definitely say that at the time that I watched this show I was not ready for these concepts or interested in them at all, and as such, they were completely lost on me. I did not give it it's due and a lot of people didn't, it seems. And here's the thing. I can't forgive a lot of shows for pacing issues, sometimes mediocre acting, conflicting themes, and other issues that happens when a lot of hands are in the same pot of a project. But this one, I can. Even an imperfect work that looks at these things, especially during that time is worthy of my respect, I think. Seemingly random with Whedon's trademark characters and development we always are grounded in the one assertion that this is not okay. The fact that it never buckled in doing that every time, for so long until a new season and changed it up only slightly to make her more empathetic -- kind of shows the dedication in displaying that fact for all to see -- while getting canceled, unfortunately. It is important that it tried to do this, when it did this, and how it did it. More and more the show strays towards moral ambiguity after it's already established what is right and wrong. Blurring the lines with the protagonists themselves in order to examine morality itself. Not as poignantly and eloquently as it could have. But it's pretty dang clear as it gets further into season 2 that we really can't expect a straight edge from anybody. Victor and Sierra as well are characterized much better in the second season. Showing us that there are always things about us that fundamentally are just a part of our identity and that is not attached to morality.Also, the best dialogue and exploration of the characters in this show are always the ones with the best lines and active dialogue because we are meant to know what it is from their lens. And how often people that can't try and view things from a different lens end up missing everything. The point, themselves, their emotions, and it literally messes up the world. It could have been less eloquent too, no? To stop babbling though, I'll finish with this, the general dovetailing and ending of the show, and the final episode, are also a slow burn. Probably because of the cancellation but I think it sticks the landing better than most any other show I've seen. In fact the most emotional I felt during the whole thing was in the ending. Because in the end:Sometimes the only way to become whole and the only way to move on is to dismantle our sense of self and become something new again. And sometimes the only way we can do that is to go home. And this is why it matters so much more than Firefly, to me.

This show has a great original concept that makes up for the at times sub-par acting. I started watching this show on Netflix Canada due to Eliza Dushku being in it and instantly got hooked. Pretty sad that it ended after 2 seasons but it had a very good definite ending to the series. Highly recommend this show to anyone looking for something out of the norm or that is an Eliza Dushku fan. Other actors in this show have gone on to make appearances in a lot of popular movies and shows that I've seen since.Dollhouse is a very good unisex show as it isn't overly action packed all the time but also has enough action and a very attractive main character for the men watching.

This is currently a Netflix series.. So I find myself always wondering at the onset if the series will have staying power. Why? Because I don't want to get 10 episodes in and get "disenchanted" or "bored".This series is less mysterious than Lost, and more programmatic, like Burn Notice.. I mean.. It's formulaic, in a way. There's a pattern.. Lather rinse repeat. The issue is that I'm just not sure I can believe or withstand the exhaustive psychological abuse of the main character. Or perhaps, I just do not enjoy it, over and over.. Call me a wuss.Don't get me wrong.. It's a good story, just too much pain, too much sadness. I'm not averse to tragedy.. But this type of sci-fi is the kind that gives you love and then perverts it.. Distorts it so that what you thought was love.. Wasn't even close. Gives you hope and kills it. Gives you dreams and erases them permanently.