Dollhouse
What is it with Joss Whedon and über-badass but confused women in shitty situations (Buffy and crew, River Tam, and now Echo and Sierra)? Apparently they are part of his sure-fire recipe for awesome television shows, because I’m really enjoying Dollhouse. The first three episodes have been engaging and it’s now one of four shows (in addition to Heroes, Mythbusters, and Burn Notice) that I look forward to every week.
I somehow managed to avoid the hype surrounding the new show, and when I watched the pilot the other week I honestly had no idea what it was about. I actually forgot that it was airing and had to catch the episode on Hulu. If you haven’t seen it, it reminds me most of The Pretender, except if Jared had never left The Centre and never learned about the outside world. Basic plot: an amoral organization known to some as “Dollhouse” has developed a way to completely erase a human’s personality and then replace it with a new one. They recruit people for the program (via means which are likely unethical and certainly illegal) and then rent them out to wealthy customers to fulfill whatever needs they have by programming them with composite personalities that they piece together from brain scans of people who are at the top of their field. The Dollhouse is extremely covert but the FBI has some indication that they exist, and have assigned a single persistent agent to find it.
So far the series is really kicking ass and I highly recommend it.