Features
Wednesday, April 13 2011
Joss Whedon: Pioneer of the Body Count
Among Joss Whedon's greatest contributions to television has been the continual use of the Body Count, the willingness to kill off recurring characters in order to ratchet up the narrative tension and create a sense of danger.
Tuesday, April 12 2011
The Power of Fandom in the Whedonverse
While viewers watch television and film for entertainment, it's easy to forget that these media are industries. In this essay the changing relationships between creators, studios, distributors, and an increasingly active fandom are examined.
Monday, April 11 2011
The Dystopian Future in Joss Whedon's Work
In contrast to the utopian vision of the future found in sci-fi series like Star Trek, Joss Whedon's creations show a different vision of the future. And it isn't pretty.
Friday, April 8 2011
The Big Bad Universe: Good and Evil According to Joss Whedon
Most of Joss Whedon's work has been characterized by Big Bads. But the lines separating Good and Evil are more complex than one might expect.
Thursday, April 7 2011
'Buffy' and 'Dollhouse': Visions of Female Empowerment and Disempowerment
While Buffy has been universally acclaimed as a great work of TV feminism, Dollhouse has been denounced as anti-feminist. But have the critics of Dollhouse been too quick to dismiss its feminist credentials?
Columns
Tuesday, July 26 2011
Voluntary Amnesia in 'Dollhouse' and 'Pygmalion'
Long before Dollhouse's Echo submitted herself to five years of memory loss, Eliza Doolitle of Pygmalion experimented with some personal tabula rasa.
Reviews
Friday, December 3 2010
'Dollhouse: The Complete Second Season' May Be Too Good for This World
Season Two of Dollhouse corrected all the wrongs of its middling first season to become one of the best shows on television in late-2009. Too bad that, by that point, no one was watching.
Thursday, February 12 2009
Dollhouse: Series Premiere
Even as Dollhouse sounds like other TV shows and movies, it is also utterly strange, its premise literally ridiculous and intriguingly metaphorical.
Blogs
Monday, January 18 2010
Dollhouse: (Briefly) The Best Show on Television
Despite a slow beginning Dollhouse has become an absolutely brilliant series
News
Wednesday, May 13 2009
'Dollhouse' may end its run on DVD
We won't know for a few more days whether the door to the "Dollhouse" has been closed permanently. Certainly last Friday's finale gave mixed signals…
Friday, March 6 2009
Has TV lost its nerve? Why engrossing dramas keep getting kicked off the island
Launching a broadly successful TV show is possible. No, really, it is. We hear a lot about the fractured media environment, and most of us…
Tuesday, February 17 2009
Eliza Dushku soberly assesses her new role in ‘Dollhouse'
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - When actress Eliza Dushku treated her former boss to lunch it turned out to be the best investment she'd ever made.…
