Episode 1 of Dollhouse
So after all the pre-buzz stuff I’ve written here I thought I should give my first impressions of the show. I won’t go into the background or the premise of the show, that’s covered pretty well in other places, such as this good review over at Salon but I will touch briefly on my impressions of the first episode.
I sat down to watch this quite excited. It’s a show with a premise that I think is cool and created by someone who’s work I’ve pretty much always loved. But I have to say that the first 15 minutes or so didn’t grab me. I felt the way the scenes flowed was jarring and like they were trying to cram as much info in as they could into a short space of time.
But I stuck with it and once we got through the “set up and explain stuff” portion of the episode and got into the guts of it all it was great. And I was surprised by Eliza Duchku, while I won’t go so far as to say her performance blew me away I will say that she seemed to have more range than I would have attributed to her.
The vague creepiness of the premise, coupled with the way the actors swtich between their “engaged” and “unengaged” selves is really quite cool. I’m not 100% sold on Dollhouse yet, but I will be watching more of it to see where it takes me.