Dollhouse 1x13

I’ve mentioned before that I enjoyed the first season of the Dollhouse earlier this year. I feel it’s very much a guys’ show, that is to say, a show for guys who like watching scantily clad, sexy girls in fast action. And let’s be honest, that’s most straight guys. So, I don’t understand why this show isn’t more popular, but what the hey. At any rate, I was so excited for the season two premiere that I found the unaired thirteenth episode of the first season to hold me over! I promise you that the first few minutes are very confusing: Los Angeles 2019, riots in the street, fires and burning cars, people shooting, flashlights in the dark ... huh? But then we’re back in the Dollhouse, the facility for inactive operatives who are abiding in their blank state of mind until they are imprinted for a mission – of any nature, professional, criminal, recreational, romantic, as long as someone pays the bill. Somehow the plot involves flashbacks that give clues about the characters we knew from season one, and about what’s happened to the Dollhouse in those ten years. In this post-apocalyptic chaos Whiskey (the doctor who once treated the operatives) suddenly appears in her mind-swiped state, talking about Safe Haven to people who consider themselves “Actuals” (i.e., not imprinted)! And the rest would sound like even more gibberish if I tried to explain... So, let’s forget about it.