Dollhouse Babes Worth Forgetting

Watching the premiere episode of the Dollhouse reminds me the classic Two Coyote Ugly joke in which a guy is willing to gnaw off both arms in case the ugly girl comes looking for a one armed man, except in Dollhouse case there's no more need to be chewing off limbs when the ready solution is to just have the girl's memory erased.

Yep, wipe her memory clean and then give her a new memory for her next big assignment: doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. You get the picture, in fact it's a premise ripped from the pages of Phillip Dicks' Total Recall with a little Six Million Dollar Man meets La Femme Nikita. The problem is I doubt television viewers are going to be willing to tune in and watch a character who is a different personality every week no matter how much skin they flash, sorry Pam Anderson.

The best thing about Dollhouse is that might distract you long enough to forget that you're not out on a Friday night. Although I'm sure my 12-year old brother and his mutant friends will gladly tune in for some gratuitous T&A but I doubt this was the demographic advertises are trying to reach.

Smart money says you may wanna forgo the eyestrain and just forget about this one all together. After all, the last Fox Friday Nite hit was X-Files before the dawn of the Tivo. Meanwhile, this Banshee won't be adding a Tivo season pass for Dollhouse, in fact, given the show's limited potential, I doubt it will run more than 13 episodes.

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