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  • 2009
  • TV-14
  • FOX
  • 2009
  • TV-14
  • FOX

Summary They can be anyone you want. The Dollhouse is a very secret, and very illegal, place where wishes come true. Clients with the right connections and enough money can hire "Actives", people who have been programmed to perfectly fulfill the needs, and desires of their clients. The Actives are people who have chosen, for their own reasons...

Created By: Joss Whedon

  • 2009
  • TV-14
  • FOX
  • 2009
  • TV-14
  • FOX
Dollhouse
2 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Feb 13, 2009
Metascore Mixed or average Based on 56 Critic Reviews
57
User Score Mixed or average Based on 154 User Ratings
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Summary They can be anyone you want. The Dollhouse is a very secret, and very illegal, place where wishes come true. Clients with the right connections and enough money can hire "Actives", people who have been programmed to perfectly fulfill the needs, and desires of their clients. The Actives are people who have chosen, for their own reasons...

Created By: Joss Whedon

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Metascore
Mixed or average Based on 56 Critic Reviews
57
39% Positive
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38% Mixed
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23% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or average Based on 56 Critic Reviews
57
39% Positive
22 Reviews
38% Mixed
21 Reviews
23% Negative
13 Reviews

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80
Dushku plows into her role with gusto. I've seen three episodes of this strange, mesmerizing show, and it has grown on me.
By Hal Boedeker FULL REVIEW
75
Good, dirty fun.
By Linda Stasi FULL REVIEW
70
Even as Dollhouse sounds like other TV shows and movies, it is also utterly strange, its premise literally ridiculous and intriguingly metaphorical.
By Cynthia Fuchs FULL REVIEW
63
The result is a show that his most devoted fans will debate and embrace, and a mass audience just won't get.
By Robert Bianco FULL REVIEW
50
Dollhouse isn't awful, but neither is it remarkably good. It's a passable hour of entertainment that shows potential to improve but flails and confuses (and occasionally bores) from the start.
By Rob Owen FULL REVIEW
30
If Dollhouse, a pretentious and risible jumble premiering tonight on that most quixotic of national networks, were a piece of music, it would have to be some sort of funky-junky, hip-hop, rinky-tinky, ragtime madrigal.
By Tom Shales FULL REVIEW
10
To the extent this sounds interesting, it isn't: Half the dialogue seems to have been written for barking dogs, the other half for mewling kittens, and the cast performs accordingly.
By Glenn Garvin FULL REVIEW

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Production Company:
  • Boston Diva Productions
  • 20th Century Fox Television
Initial Release Date: Feb 13, 2009
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards

SFX Awards, UK
• 1 Nomination
Hugo Awards
• 1 Nomination
Hollywood Post Alliance, US
• 1 Nomination

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