Dollhouse 1.01 Review: Nothing Is What It Appears to Be

Posted by on February 17th 2009 to Dollhouse, Polls, Reviews, Series Premieres  Tagged , , , , , , , , , ,
Dollhouse 1.01 Review: Nothing Is What It Appears to Be

Episode: GhostOriginal Air Date: February 13, 2009
“Nothing is what it appears to be.”
That’s what Adelle DeWitt (Olivia Williams) tells Eliza Dushku’s character Caroline — not Echo — in the first scene of the first episode of Dollhouse. DeWitt seems to think Caroline is volunteering for whatever she has in mind for the next five years to help the young woman start anew afterwards with a “clean slate,” but reluctant Caroline feels she has no choice in the matter. Apparently, Caroline got into some kind of mess while trying to take her place in the world and make a …read more

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Early Buzz: ‘Dollhouse’ Reviewed

Posted by on December 04th 2008 to Dollhouse, Reviews  Tagged , , , , , , , , , ,
Early Buzz: ‘Dollhouse’ Reviewed

Lucky Time columnist James Poniewozik has seen the revamped pilot of the Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku series Dollhouse, and he gives the premiere episode a fairly optimistic review.
Says the television writer of the screener he watched: “[T]he first episode … is well enough written to be absorbing. Writing a crime hour doesn’t seem like Whedon’s thing, but the episode is tight, suspenseful, with intriguing psychological twists and flashes of Whedonesque humor.”
Of course, that positive comes with a potential negative, namely that “Dollhouse as conceived (a heroine plays a different “person” every week) is less a series concept than an …read more

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