The "Castle" Season 4 finale is adding a familiar face - "Battlestar Galactica" and "Dollhouse" alum Tahmoh Penikett....
"Dollhouse" alum Dichen Lachman is about to start her string of appearances on "Being Human," playing a vampire with a link to Aidan (Sam Witwer) and a very bloody history....
File this under all-good, very-awesome news.One of our favorite dolls Dichen Lachman has landed a new gig. The "Dollhouse" alum will be playing a --......
...the ninth episode. Since her Fox show "Dollhouse" ended in 2010, the "Buffy" alum has been...return as Legolas in 'The Hobbit' films 'Dollhouse': Eliza Dushku on the dollhouse closing its doors -- Emily Christianson......
"He's played every role pretty much, it's incredible. I was joking today, 'You're 'Dollhouse.' Every week you're somebody else.'"...
The show's deft touch with stunt casting continues next week with the former "Dollhouse" star playing an FBI agent....
A secret facility, the Dollhouse, erases the personalities of Echo and her fellow ''actives'' so they can assume any relevant personas they may be assigned in engagements that cater to the wealthy, powerful and well-connected. After each assignment, the actives are subjected to another personality wipe so they can enter the next scenario with no memory of an earlier one. At least, that's the plan -- but as the series unfolds, Echo's memory begins to return, and she slowly starts piecing together her true identity.
I have long felt uncomfortable about the sexual nature of most of the engagements actives have been sent on in the "Dollhouse" and not because of the prostitution issue most have labeled it as.
I suppose that it only makes sense that if the "Dollhouse" caters to the whims of the impossibly wealthy that sometimes it will step outside it's standard lines of operation. Or does it?
Last season, 'Dollhouse' caught a fair amount of fire for the encounters most often being about sex, turning the actives into technologically advanced prostitutes.
Last season, Ryan theorized that one of the tragic flaws in the 'Dollhouse' finale was that "There's no catharsis without memory". And after Caroline/Omega was wiped, what was left?
Well, we know one thing now: the writers of "Dollhouse" sure like their "Natural Born Killers," don't they? Actually, we know two things: in a show in which the central character's mind is continually erased, it's damn hard to achieve any sort of epiphany, even in a season/series finale. The jury's still out on exactly which of those tonight's episode actually was, but once again the show's high concept prevented it from truly achieving greatness in what may have been its swan song.
OK, altogether, on the count of three. One...two...three...WASH! If you're a "Firefly" fan, that made sense, and if you're not, dear God, go find a friend who has the DVDs and dig in. But I'm not here to pimp "Firefly," I'm here to praise an outstanding episode of "Dollhouse," which was a little heavy on the allegory but incredibly dense on mythology, narrative advancement, and enough confusing sexual hang-ups to fill a few dozen doctoral dissertations.
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