vacant-eyed pretty things

[cluebyfour]

Tycho over at Penny Arcade pretty much nails a one-line review of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse:

It's a science fiction retelling of MTV's The Real World, and it works about as well as you would expect.

Not only that, Tycho has pretty much nailed me as a viewer of Dollhouse: I keep watching in the hope that Whedon knows exactly what he's doing and that

Comments

[deadpansev]

I started recording the series, but I have yet to watch any of the episodes. Now I am wondering if it is even worth it. I wasn't even someone who watched Buffy, I liked firefly but only started watching the DVD.

[altamira16]

The second episode was slightly better than the first episode, but we had to read this episode as a short story in high school.

Since the Terminator TV series has become unwatchable, we may replace it with Dollhouse as something slightly less unwatchable.

[cluebyfour]

I've generally liked Terminator this season, but what was up with last night's episode? It made no sense to either one of us.

[altamira16]

Yes! We were like "WTF?" throughout last night's episode. It's like we know this script sucks so we will pretend it is a dream/flashback thing because our writers were all wasted.