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Program Summary for Dollhouse
They can be anyone you want.
The Dollhouse is a very secret, and very illegal, place where wishes come true. Clients with the right connections and enough money can hire "Actives", people who have been programmed to perfectly fulfill the needs, and desires of their clients. The Actives are people who have chosen, for their own reasons, to surrender their bodies and minds for a five-year stay in the Dollhouse. Now they can be imprinted with any personality, skill, or even muscle memory. They can be the perfect companion, lover, spy, assassin; and when the job is done they forget everything.
But something is wrong with the Active called "Echo". No longer just a blank slate waiting for her next assignment, Echo is remembering flashes of the lives that she has lived and the games she has played, and she is starting to wonder just who she really is...
Dollhouse is a production of 20th Century Fox Television, Joss Whedon's "Mutant Enemy", and Eliza Dushku's "Boston Diva Productions".
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Episode Title: | Ghost |
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Original Air Date: | February 13th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x01 -- Season: 1, Episode: 1 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Echo is one of the "Actives" in the elite and illegal Dollhouse. Through different personality downloads, she plays the role of a lovestruck girl on a romantic weekend, and then a ruthlessly efficient kidnapping negotiator.
Meanwhile, FBI Agent Paul Ballard is struggling with his assignment to uncover information on the Dollhouse. The chase has destroyed his marriage and is wrecking his career, and it doesn't seem that he'll stop until he uncovers the truth. |
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Episode Title: | The Target |
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Original Air Date: | February 20th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x02 -- Season: 1, Episode: 2 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Echo becomes the ultimate outdoorswoman when she is is hired by a handsome young client named Richard, but it may turn out that neither of the pair is what they seem to be. Meanwhile, Agent Ballard receives a clue about Echo's past, and we learn about Dr. Saunders' scars and the rogue active "Alpha". |
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Episode Title: | Stage Fright |
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Original Air Date: | February 27th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x03 -- Season: 1, Episode: 3 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Echo becomes a backup singer to watch out for a female singing sensation with a very overzealous fan. Agent Ballard's investigation takes a turn for the worse. |
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Episode Title: | Gray Hour |
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Original Air Date: | March 6th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x04 -- Season: 1, Episode: 4 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Echo becomes a burglar so she can perform a dangerous art heist. Meanwhile, Ballard challenges Lubov, and Adelle makes a disturbing confession. |
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Episode Title: | True Believer |
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Original Air Date: | March 13th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x05 -- Season: 1, Episode: 5 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Echo becomes a blind woman so that she can infiltrate a very secretive and well-guarded cult.
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Episode Title: | Man On The Street |
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Original Air Date: | March 20th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x06 -- Season: 1, Episode: 6 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Echo tries to help a client heal the ache of a lost love as a TV reporter prepares an expose on the Dollhouse. |
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Episode Title: | Echoes |
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Original Air Date: | March 27th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x07 -- Season: 1, Episode: 7 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Echo abandons an assignment when she is drawn to a nearby college where the entire campus is being affected by a mysterious memory drug. |
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Episode Title: | Needs |
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Original Air Date: | April 3rd 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x08 -- Season: 1, Episode: 8 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Awakening within the Dollhouse, with large parts of their original personalities having returned, Echo, Sierra and Victor plan an escape. |
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Episode Title: | Spy in the House of Love |
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Original Air Date: | April 10th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x09 -- Season: 1, Episode: 9 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | When a traitor is discovered inside the Dollhouse, Echo and Sierra are programmed to root out the spy. Meanwhile, Paul receives surprising news from Mellie. |
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Episode Title: | Haunted |
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Original Air Date: | April 24th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x10 -- Season: 1, Episode: 10 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Echo is programmed with the memories of a dead woman in the hopes that she can help solve the woman's murder. Topher secretly prepares Sierra for an engagement, and Ballard looks into Mellie's past. |
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Episode Title: | Briar Rose |
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Original Air Date: | May 1st 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x11 -- Season: 1, Episode: 11 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Echo uses the story of "Sleeping Beauty" to help a young girl overcome a past trauma, but does the story foreshadow Echo's own future? Meanwhile, Ballard may have found the original designer of the Dollhouse, Adelle goes to an ex-employee for answers, and Alpha reveals himself and his endgame. |
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Episode Title: | Omega |
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Original Air Date: | May 8th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 01x12 -- Season: 1, Episode: 12 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Alpha's continued obsession with Echo may cost her everything. Ballard makes a decision that could change the rest of his life. One Doll's story ends as another's is revealed. |
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Episode Title: | Vows |
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Original Air Date: | September 25th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x01 -- Season: 2, Episode: 1 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | As part of the Dollhouse's deal with Ballard, Echo becomes the ultimate double agent. Believing that she is Paul's former FBI partner, she goes deep undercover investigating weapons broker Martin Klar. But before she can get the information they need, this investigation is going to lead Echo into Klar's heart, and even down the aisle...
Meanwhile Dr. Saunders has to deal with her anger towards Topher and her anxiety about her own past. |
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Episode Title: | Instinct |
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Original Air Date: | October 2nd 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x02 -- Season: 2, Episode: 2 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | For her latest assignment, Echo is imprinted as a new mother, and the mental changes are so profound that they affect her body on a glandular level. But when she believes that someone may want to harm her "son", her reactions are more intense than anyone could have predicted.
Meanwhile, Senator Perrin steps up his investigation, and Adelle pays November a visit. |
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Episode Title: | Belle Chose |
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Original Air Date: | October 9th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x03 -- Season: 2, Episode: 3 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | At the request of a Dollhouse shareholder, Victor is imprinted with the mind of the man's nephew. The man's unstable, psychotic, homicidal nephew.
Now, just as Ballard is starting to adjust to his new role, he must call upon all of his FBI training when Victor escapes the Dollhouse to wander the streets with a killer in his head. |
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Episode Title: | Belonging |
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Original Air Date: | October 23rd 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x04 -- Season: 2, Episode: 4 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | We learn more about Sierra's connection to Rossum and the twisted trail of deception, obsession, and murder that led her to the Dollhouse. |
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Episode Title: | The Public Eye |
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Original Air Date: | December 4th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x05 -- Season: 2, Episode: 5 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Senator Daniel Perrin is on a mission to expose secrets of the Dollhouse and Echo is sent to put an end to his plan. Adelle and Topher meet programmer Bennett Halverson in Washington DC and discover her mysterious connection to Echo's past. |
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Episode Title: | The Left Hand |
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Original Air Date: | December 4th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x06 -- Season: 2, Episode: 6 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Echo meets Bennett Halverson in Washington and both of them receive a shock. Adelle must deal with her DC counterpart, Stewart Lipman. Topher recruits Victor, and Senator Perrin finds unexpected help in his quest to reveal the activities of the Rossum Corporation. |
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Episode Title: | Meet Jane Doe |
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Original Air Date: | December 11th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x07 -- Season: 2, Episode: 7 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Echo is left adrift in the world after her experiences at the DC Dollhouse, and her multiple personalities struggle against each other... and Echo. Meanwhile, Boyd receives a call and Harding makes his move against Adelle. |
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Episode Title: | A Love Supreme |
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Original Air Date: | December 11th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x08 -- Season: 2, Episode: 8 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Alpha seemingly returns and goes after Echo's past romantic clients, killing them one by one. |
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Episode Title: | Stop-Loss |
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Original Air Date: | December 18th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x09 -- Season: 2, Episode: 9 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Victor's contract elapses and he goes back out into the real world... where his past as a soldier threatens his present with Sierra. |
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Episode Title: | The Attic |
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Original Air Date: | December 18th 2009 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x10 -- Season: 2, Episode: 10 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | When the Dollhouse determines she's too dangerous to their goals, the organization sends Echo to the Attic to face her worst nightmare. |
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Episode Title: | Getting Closer |
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Original Air Date: | January 8th 2010 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x11 -- Season: 2, Episode: 11 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Seriously one of the biggest surprises I've gotten from a show in recent memory.
I'm still reeling at how amazingly Dollhouse hid its biggest secret from us in plain sight the whole time. This show has surprised me before, but never like this.
You know, since the beginning of the show, Boyd always stuck out to me. He didn't really seem to fit in. He seemed to have morals and he didn't seem to really want anything from anyone. He was always the number two guy. Always supportive. Always the friend. The only redeemable character in the show.
Or so we thought.
The best surprises are the ones you don't see coming but make perfect sense in hindsight. This is one of them.
Finding out Boyd was the big bad, the mastermind, the founder of Rossum, the one behind it all... I was completely floored. It made perfect sense. We still knew next to nothing about his past after all. As Ballard said at the beginning of the season, "If you're pointing fingers, you should be looking at Boyd. I know why I'm here."
All this time we thought he was just supporting everyone, but really, he was manipulating everyone. EVERYONE. And we never noticed because he seemed to be so true blue. We assumed he had the best intentions. He stopped a rapist, save Echo on a number of occasions, always seemed to be on our side. We wanted to know his past, but it never seemed vitally important. There were always bigger questions.
Except there weren't.
On top of that, I was also surprised that Bennet was killed. Though I really shouldn't have been. I mean, Joss always kills the love interest. Wash, Penny, Ms. Calendar, Angel (sort of), Renee, Tara, Anya, Kitty Pryde... It always happens. I should have seen it coming. But once again, I didn't. I guess I didn't expect Whiskey to be the one to do it and I guess I was also just happy that Topher got the girl.
So even though technically not a lot happens in this episode, the few things that do are frankly mind-blowing. It has motivated me to rewatch the entire series to look for hints.
I am so sad the series is being canceled. |
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Episode Title: | The Hollow Men |
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Original Air Date: | January 15th 2010 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x12 -- Season: 2, Episode: 12 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | Good enough for the end of the Dollhouse run, Did anyone else notice that Echo was dressed like Malcolm Reynolds if he was a chick? Totally a modified Browncoat getup. I loved it!
Apart from that the episode did what it needed to, brought the arc to a semi-satisfying close. Naturally there are still some things that I would have preferred clarified but Fox sucks the big one and didn't give them a whole lot of time to give as much attention as some things really deserved. I hope that just means Joss is leaving it open for a potential movie a la Serenity though. |
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Episode Title: | Epitaph Two: Return |
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Original Air Date: | January 22nd 2010 (Friday) |
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Original Air Time: | NA (ET) |
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Episode ID: | 02x13 -- Season: 2, Episode: 13 |
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Program Network: | Fox - 60 minutes |
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Episode Summary: | I have read a few of the reviews and we all seem to feel the same way: The show -as in the whole series- had so much to give; was brilliant in many ways but fell just short of the mark at the end.
However, there are the Nods of Excellence due to many.
Topher and Adele's scenes in the final episode were truly wonderful. Great credit to Fran Kranz for such an intricate portrayal of his character.
Victor - Enver Gjokaj - is due an Nod of Excellence. Not only for being Victor but for-as I've said before- out-Tophering Topher. Great work.
Harry J. Lennix as Boyd was such a scene stealer and his role left my jaw on the floor for quite a while!
Eliza Dushku was trememndous throughout the whole series. The *only* time for me where she didn't work for me was her meltdown scene with Sierra. I understand the context and what was going on but for me her acting fell short in those scenes.
I think Adair Tishler - Kid Caroline - is a brilliant talent. She's got quite a list of work!
I would like to continue but I'm too tired!
I really feel this was a great show that was never really given the opportunity to go in the direction it should have. I have *great* admiration for Joss Whedon and his talent and vision. I hope his next venture is Network free and sets the standard higher than ever.
If you've got this far, thanks for reading. |
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