Short Attention Span Review: "Dollhouse" 2/13

Joss Whedon returns to TV with a series that seems to be a cross between Alias, The Bourne Identity, and The Stepford Wives. Eliza Dushku is Echo, one of several women, known as "actives," who are kept in a place called Dollhouse. They are reprogrammable for any task. After each assignment, they get a mindwipe and go back to their boxes. It seems pretty misogynistic at first glance, but we've got characters acknowledging that this is wrong, it needs to be stopped, Helo from Battlestar Galactica is hunting them down to put a stop to it, and Echo starts having problems with wipes actually working. As she notes in the show's opening, no matter how you try to wipe the slate clean, you can often see what was written there before.

It promises to be very interesting - but this is Joss, this is FOX, and I've gotten attached to that pairing before with Firefly and all I got out of that was 11 episodes.

Here's to hoping they don't screw this one up.