About Dollhouse
Joss Whedon, creator of groundbreaking TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, is making a much-anticipated return to television. His thrilling new science-fiction drama Dollhouse reunites Whedon with Eliza Dushku of Buffy fame.
Echo (Dushku) is an “Active,” a member of a highly illegal and underground group of individuals hired out for particular jobs. Her mind and personality have been wiped clean. She is whomever the job needs her to be – a best friend… a lethal assassin.
The hidden futuristic facility hiding the Actives is called “The Dollhouse,” and the leaders of the Dollhouse hire Echo and her fellow Actives out to wealthy clients. As Whedon says, Actives don’t just perform their job duties, they become the person that a client needs them to be. The Dollhouse sees to that.
Only, what is this secret worth? How can it stay a secret forever?
And more importantly… what happens when something unplanned takes place? What happens when the Actives start to think for themselves.
Also starring Tahmoh Penikett, Harry Lennix and Olivia Williams, Dollhouse will make you ask the question:
You can wipe away a memory… But can you wipe away a soul?
I can’t seem to find any place on this website that tells me what time this show is on. lol
its on fridays @ 9 =)
I so hope this series gets cancelled…This show is so offensive & degrading-especially to women. What is the difference between this company’s dealings with it’s clients & “dolls” than a pimp & a prostitute…It is little more than glorified human trafficking, even some of the girls depicted there are being held against their will-not to mention as mindless human robots-subjected to the will of their masters…And this is something we choose to watch or even like? It’s time to wake up girls & stop falling for this crap!
to offended viewer:
One of the many themes of the show, and an aspect that could make this a great series, IS the obvert parallel between the ‘dollhouse’ and human trafficking/forced prostitution. In the show, the operation is illegal. I think there have been parts in different episodes that foreshadow possible repercussions the employees and founders of the ‘Dollhouse’ will have to deal with when, a. the ‘dollhouse’ operation is uncovered, or b. the ‘dolls’ find a way to rebel against the brainwashing. The show hardly gives off an impression that what is currently happening around the world in regard to human trafficking is justified. I hope the show gets green-lit for a second season, because I am very interested to see where the series could go and the social issues it could explore.
To “offended viewer”, please go fuck yourself with a chainsaw and die.
In the dollhouse both males and females are pimped. And the show in no way condones prostitution or sex trafficking.
@ offended viewer:
Not sure where your comment “especially to women” is factually justified. If you are going to make a completely vague statement, it might bolster your assertion if you cited specific instances where women were targeted. As other viewers pointed out, men and women are EQUALLY “used” for their clients’ needs. The concept of the show ISN’T a gender issue in the slightest! It is a show about the mind, the soul, and the body, and questions about whether these three things are inseparable. You know, this is the problem with feminists, they are so delusional that they invent things that aren’t there. As another viewer pointed out, sex trafficking and prostitution is never condoned. The whole sub story of the FBI agent chasing the dollhouse several times states that his conscience will not allow him to stop looking for these people who are being held against their will.
This show examines the blurred lines between good and evil and what happens when a social/scientific experiment of this magnitude is released on the world. For instance, it examines the concept of eternal life and what one would do if they could order their affairs post mortem. Stop reading your feminist drivel, wake up, and realize what you are saying makes no sense and you sound ignorant as a result. It is people like you that make artistic expression impossible in this new “liberal” let’s not offend anyone world. Would you like us all to live in a grey world with no expression whatsoever because I guarantee something somewhere will ALWAYS offend someone. The problem is, instead of wishing the show off the air, just don’t watch it, that’s the beauty of choice and liberty. Don’t forget, what doesn’t appeal to you (for whatever misguided reason) may appeal to many others and if you really want to teach the young girls of America something important, I would start with tolerance for personal and artistic expression.
And, in case you didn’t notice the name, I am male…..do you hate me yet?
No need to resort to name calling. But, “offended viewer”, I urge you to think about whether, when a character says onscreen “this is a good thing” or “we help people”, we should accept that at face value. The show *is* about prostitution and sex trafficking, translated into a sci-fi scenario, but we are encouraged to think about the issues for ourselves. Don’t you find it interesting to think about how the people involved in these things in real life justify it to themselves?
I guess this is way after many have posted, but ah well.
Offended viewer: I complete agree with Chris Ovenden. You are right, this show is about sex trafficking, but it is not condoning it. The characters running it do. We see their justification for what they do, and we as an audience examine our own repulsions and moral compasses as we watch. It is indeed a very disturbing show. It is, however, incredibly thought provoking.
Please don’t think that the show’s only fans are people like He-Man and Jon. I consider myself a feminist and I like the show, which examines control of and by both men and women. It also brutally examines gender issues and expectations. Let’s face it, He-Man and Jon - sex slavery affects more women than men! It doesn’t mean that the men it affects don’t matter. It’s just that the offended viewer has a point.
One more point: according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary means
“1 : the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes
2 : organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests.”
So what’s wrong with that? And what’s wrong with being a feminist, as Joss Whedon states he tries to be?
Dollhouse is a great show. It is an amazing show that is exciting at all times. The thought of being made into other people with special abilities is something that has never been published before Dollhouse. It in no way is prostitution.
Speaking as a feminist, this show is about whether the mind, body, and soul (if it exists) are inseperable, and yes, it asks this question using prostitution and human trafficking. The show itself never says these things are okay - and the main character Echo, as she becomes more self aware, wants to free the “dolls.” Before she was Echo, she was “Caroline” - who also fought for the rights of those unable to speak.
Joss Whedon would NEVER make a show glorifying women who are meek and mild and oppressed. If you know anything about Whedon, you should know *Buffy* and how that show is now hailed as a feminist landmark in empowered women on television. Eliza, the actress portraying Echo, is a veteran of *Buffy*, and was one of the empowered women in that show.
The message Whedon successfully gets across in the season finales (Epitaph 1 and 2) is that using people is WRONG. To Offended Viewer: Watch the whole show, and you will see that this show spews feminist mantras.
there are lots of social issues that we face these days due to hardships and disease.-;~
I saw Dollhouse recently on dvd
at first I thought to show as interestingly
weird then recognized the former bad to good
slayer. She also starred in another show where
recently dead spoke to her causing her relive
that day to save same recently dead person.
Also her mother and unknown brother had the
gifts. Each of them chose how to use said gift.
All this to say of Dollhouse of the wiping of
personalities by secret elite illegal government
paid by rich client to do what they will to people
originally suffering such psychic pain they
volunteer for those experimental memory wipes.
Not too far fetched, we really don’t know how advanced
neural science has become. One thing is even that NIH
agent when caught, caged (personality-in-a-box) was
recopying himself, and Echo/Caroline has backup
personalities in case her body(s) are damaged, killed.
Dolls are both men and women used as flesh toys for anyone
than can bankroll their fantasy.
No clones to grow, parts to replace, just use an electronic
pulse to reintroduce memories or whole persona into a flesh
and bone body. The scary part for me is back stories of how
these people was in mental pain to sign a 5 contract
volunteering for this. Anyone in such mental anguish is
prey to people that can do this. The upside is the possible
serial immortality of those like minded wanting to spread
the tech to everyone or if its to evil and invasive to destroy
it. I wouldn’t want to be a doll but I’d use it to save a loved
one, relatives, friend(s), or my life where it be in a woman’s
or man’s body. Life is life no matter what sex or orientation
we’re in and one may have a just accordingly.
Isn’t that what life mostly is? A series of adjustments.
I may be behind in the series but I do like the concept of
changing bodies but when free will is questionable
it is then we all are on that sudden slippery slope folks talk of.
A
there are lots of social issues these days mostly due to our culture and economic situation*.;
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