On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote: > James Wolcott in Vanity Fair: > > Valley of the Dolts > > Second time around for Dollhouse was like watching the blood swirl down the > bathtub drain in Psycho without any of Hitchcock's clinical elegance. > > The rest: > http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2009/02/second-time-around-for-dollhouse.html
I just got around to watching the first 4 episodes this weekend. I try to avoid reviews and comments about shows until I see them (I did not even read this thread until today) but I could not avoid some leakage around this program, and almost all of it was really bad. So much so that my main reaction after seeing it was to be somewhat defensive and protective - it is not all THAT bad. I have certainly wasted time watching worse tv shows in my day. Of course, I liked "My Own Worst Enemy". While that show had a more likable cast, Dollhouse has a more plausible context. There was never any real reason given for the memory wiping in Enemy, while there is an obvious reason for the memory wiping in Dollhouse, and it makes more sense to keep the operatives safe, secure and docile in between missions than to have them running lose in fake "normal" lives where lots of unpredictable things can happen to them. But that unlikable cast issue is a big problem. My daughter tells me that Dushku was on Buffy (and she does look somewhat familiar to me, maybe from the one season of that we watched as a family one Christmas Eve, but that was season 2). She does not exactly generate hatred, but I find that I don't really like her in any of the senses that the show offers me (a 40 something man) to like her - which is either as a protective father (a la the black protector) or a creepy sexual predator (a la many of her arranged "dates"). I guess one response is that the show is not aimed at someone my age, but judging from my daughter's reaction (18 year old hs senior) Dushku is not really clicking with that demo either. Maybe if I were a 14 year old boy or 16 year old girl I would be into her, and maybe that is the target audience of the program, though I was told Whedon aims for a product that plays at more levels for a wider audience. I will say this, I like Dollhouse a lot more than I like Knight Rider, which I still have to watch because my 11 year old son is into it. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
