Shameless Promotion

Strictly speaking, this blog is dedicated to movies. However, Katie and I, especially me, do watch an insane amount of television. We just agreed to make this blog about movies. However, this is going to be one of those rare times in which I discuss television.

Dollhouse is the latest work from the ever masterful Joss Whedon. This is the man who has written Toy Story, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, and Serenity. He is one of my favorite writers in Hollywood. Unfortunately, it seems that Fox hates him. Firefly, despite it's brilliance, was cancelled. It looks as though Dollhouse will soon meet the same fate.

The show premiered Friday night to abysmal ratings. Anyone could have foreseen that. I mean, Fox put it on a Friday night. It's clearly geared to the scifi/geek audience, which is fine. I appreciate the fact that Fox has been creating such shows with this audience in mind. The Sarah Connor Chronicles, while in no way a great show, gets points for effort. I chalk it's failure up to Lena Headey's inability to act. Fringe, even though I don't particularly like it, gets credit for trying to be the X-Files. Placing Dollhouse after The Sarah Connor Chronicles makes sense, I guess. However, placing Dollhouse on a Friday night is suicide. The Scifi channel dominates every geek's Friday night with Battlestar. Even if Dollhouse is a full hour before Battlestar, forget it. Battlestar fans are too busy waiting to find out how their favorite show will end. And as for a non-geek audience, it's a Friday night. Those people will be out watching movies at the theater. In short: Dear Fox, you're morons.

So, since this show is already fated to be canceled, I encourage you to jump on the Dollhouse bandwagon. If the numbers go up, then the show might last longer. So watch Dollhouse on Fridays at 9/8c on Fox. If you missed the first episode, watch it at Hulu.

~Lauren