ECHO LEADS THE ACTIVES IN AN ESCAPE FROM THE DOLLHOUSE WHILE BALLARD DEALS WITH SHOCKING INFORMATION ON DOLLHOUSE FRIDAY, APRIL 3, ON FOX
When Echo, Sierra and Victor awaken in the Dollhouse with most of their original personalities and memories intact, Echo leads the charge to free the Actives from their apparent captivity and escape the Dollhouse forever. Meanwhile, Ballard discovers the Dollhouse is closer than he thinks in the Needs episode of DOLLHOUSE airing Friday, April 3 (9:01-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
Cast: Eliza Dushku as Echo; Tahmoh Penikett as Paul Ballard; Olivia Williams as Adelle DeWitt; Fran Kranz as Topher Brink; Harry Lennix as Boyd Langton; Enver Gjokaj as Victor; Dichen Lachman as Sierra
Guest Cast: Amy Acker as Dr. Claire Saunders; Reed Diamond as Laurence Dominic; Miracle Laurie as Mellie; Teddy Sears as Mike; Emma Bell as Tango; Skyler Stone as Jimmy; Angel Desai as Sophie; Vincent Ventresca as Nolan; Joe Wandell as Adams
Source: FOX
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Last week, Episode 6, of Dollhouse was my inaugural viewing of the show after initially vowing to not watch based on Joss Whedon's very clear statements about how he feels (felt?) about doing the FOX Network show. I've really enjoyed Whedon's past work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and the short -lived Firefly so it wasn't a choice I made lightly to not watch Whedon's newest offering.
Then about two weeks ago, I started reading quotes attributed to Whedon that as of Episode 6, Dollhouse was going to be better. Instead of skipping past the adverts for the show I watched a couple and decided I'd be pretty strict and give the show three episodes to win me over, keeping in mind that these are episodes 6 through 8, a place where a show should at the very least be showing it's potential. As I said after viewing it, Episode 6 of Dollhouse didn't blow me away but it didn't suck, either so last night I watched Episode 7, "Echoes."
Unfortunately it wasn't as good as Eppy 6. As much as I'm going to sound like part of the Greek chorus saying this, there was way too much Eliza Dushku in it and worse, flashbacks to her past in which she was "herself," pre-Dollhouse. Sadly, "Caroline" is dull and a bit of an airhead and the beginning of her back story was a giant snooze. The present time story had the dolls (except the Dushku character, Echo, who was on an assignment as a hooker) as special agents with a "doctor" thrown in for good measure who are dispatched to a college campus where portions of the student body seem to be suffering from taking some bad acid. In the middle of her hooker gig, "Echo" sees a TV news clip of the college situation and leaves her john tied up to the bed, heading over to the campus for reasons she doesn't exactly know. It turns out to be pretty standard fare from there with Whedon injecting as much of his Scooby gang-type antics amongst the Dollhouse team as they belatedly discover that they are not immune to tripping and they make lots of funny.
I suppose this was designed to be a sure-fire way to make the episode a success but the end result was pretty much meh.
Looking forward to next week we have the synopsis up above which seems to indicate an Eliza-centric eppy again. All I can say is: Joss if you can get ahold of all the episodes to come and cut out some Eliza and splice back in more of the rest of the cast, except maybe "Mellie" who is just awful, and be sure to add a big dollop of Tahmoh Penniket, you just might have a chance in Hades. I wish you the best. The snippet below from TV By the Numbers about Episode 7's viewership is pretty bleak, however.
Day two of regional semi-final coverage of the NCAA basketball tournament easily led CBS to across the board victory. Meanwhile Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles gained around 18,000 viewers and held steady in the 18-49 demo vs. last week, while Dollhouse slipped by about 25,000 viewers and dropped two tenths of a point among adults 18-49.Courtesy of Tv By The Numbers
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