Joss Whedon?s Dollhouse! It's a whole lot of fun, with prizes to be won, it’s the real crazy show where anything goes… Wait, no – that's Pat Sharp?s Fun House. We always get the two confused.
Anyway, Dollhouse – the hit US show about zombified (kinda) prostitutes (ish) who live in a spa (sort of) and have had their personalities stolen (OR HAVE THEY?) by an evil corporation (OR IS IT?), and are implanted with new ones (OR ARE THEY?), then hired out by rich perverts/pop stars/the FBI for weekly adventures (STILL WITH US?) – is returning for a second season.
Summer Glau, the whey-faced Terminator from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is joining the cast, and the tone of the season will be ‘sexually dark’.
No, we don't know what that means, either. We figure it's either a) interracial sex b) interracial sex with the lights off or c) interracial sex with the lights off, INSIDE A BLACK HOLE. The thing is, in the twisty-turny, turvy-topsy world of the Dollhouse, all these eventualities are possible.
The series, which started as a bland showcase for Eliza Dushku?s ability to pout, frown and say ?Did I fall asleep?? while wearing various outfits, stunned us halfway through by pulling the plot from under our feet and becoming suddenly AWESOME. Then gave us a season finale that, rather than providing a cliffhanger, pitched us ten years into a post-apocalyptic future and featured almost none of the original cast. So it's hard to predict what season two – which airs in the US on September 25 – will bring.
Maybe we can glean a clue from Joss Whedon?s back catalogue:
– First there was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the usually entertaining ass-kicking adventures of an anorexic blonde teen quipster.
– Then there was Angel, the sporadically amusing ass-kicking adventures of a grumpy vampire/potato.
– Finally came Firefly, the uniformly brilliant ass-kicking adventures of spacefaring, jive-talkin? cowboys, and the movie sequel, Serenity – both of which Summer Glau also wandered through, being otherworldly and ass-kicky.
Nope. Still no idea.
Perhaps then the answer lies in the names given to all the dolls in the Dollhouse, which are all based on the NATO phonetic alphabet. The dolls we've met so far are Alpha, Echo, November, Sierra, Victor and Whiskey. Does this mean that Summer Glau will also be wafting vacuously through the Dollhouse in her nightie under the pseudonym perhaps of Hotel, Kilo or Mike? Ah no, according to Joss Whedon himself:
“Summer would be perfect to play an active, but she’s done that type of role a lot?.
Instead she’ll play Bennett, a Dollhouse employee who shares a ‘secret past’ with Eliza Dushku?s character, Echo.
Hurrah! Interracial sex with the lights off, inside a black hole, WITH LESBIANS.
Probably.
Roll on September 25! Or September 25 2013, when Dollhouse?s second season will probably get shown in the UK.
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jenn kim says
i’m a bonafide fangirl nerd, so i’ve read about 100 articles on this upcoming season of dollhouse, but this is the first that literally made me laugh. a lot. okay, there was snorting involved. robyn wilder, you’re frickin’ hilarious.
JRS says
The author’s shock at interracial sex is stupid and backwards.
Andrew says
This is a hilarious article, and for once, doesn’t completely trash the subject. See guys? You can make fun of things without beating them to death – not everything is bad. Good work :)
Robyn says
And lesbians. Don’t forget them.