Chicago Tribune: Dollhouse ‘must-see viewing’
Hey guys, we’re back (one totaled car later), but I picked a great week to do it since there was no Dollhouse last week. As many of you know, since “A True Believer,” Dollhouse has been must-see TV, and we’re not the only ones who think so. Check out this article from the Chicago Tribune:
As I’ve written recently, I consider “Dollhouse” (9 p.m. Friday, 8 p.m. CST) to be must-see viewing. The last few episodes of the Fox drama have been quite compelling, but the show’s return for a second season is in doubt.
It feels like deja vu all over again — a Fox show created by Joss Whedon is in danger. But as far as Whedon is concerned, the script that some fans are writing — about an evil network trying to crush Whedon’s creation, as happened years ago on Fox with “Firefly” — is itself in need of revision.
The process of birthing the show was rough, he said, because its central concept, which revolves around operatives whose minds are given mental implants for specific missions, is “a hard, hard premise. The premise kept me up at night long before I got a network note,” he said in a Monday interview in the lobby of his Chicago hotel.
And though there has been a kerfuffle over Fox’s not wanting to air the show’s 13th episode — the reasons are complicated, but suffice to say the season is set to end May 8, with the 12th episode of “Dollhouse” — Whedon says there’s a chance that Episode 13 may be available on TV, not just on DVD.
The decision to air that episode may hinge on whether “Dollhouse,” which has ripened into a poignant and twisted meditation on identity, memory and exploitation, will come back for another season.
The show has been ratings-challenged, but it has done well via other platforms (it’s very popular with DVR users), so it might return.
“I assumed it was dead in the water because the network was refusing to air the 13th [episode],” Whedon said.
“Not refusing, but just not interested. I assumed that meant the bell tolled for us. And they made a point of calling and saying, ‘That is not what it means, and we’ll keep you posted.’ ”
Though recent episodes have delved into the complex history and function of the Dollhouse, Friday’s episode will be a stand-alone affair. Whedon called it a “drawing-room mystery.”
“It’s a quirky little piece with a lot of guest stars,” Whedon said. “I’m a little nervous about it. I think [star] Eliza [Dushku] is great in it. But I’m wondering, are people going to go, ‘Now wait a minute, [where's the mythology]?’ But it was my decision in the middle of all this to say, ‘Wait a minute, we can’t just be about our own mythology. Let’s try this other thing.’ ”
If the mysterious Dollhouse closes, Whedon has other irons in the fire — he’s at work on the film “The Cabin in the Woods,” he said that he and his collaborators are hoping to shoot the next chapter of the online musical “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” in spring 2010, and he’s open to the idea of shopping around another show some day, perhaps to a cable network.
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