Dollhouse: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2

Love this show! When the discs first came I was pretty upset because they say "Irish Film Classification Office" and that they are from the UK. I looked closer on Amazon's page for this item and it said it may not play in blu ray players made in the US and Canada. This was NOT displayed where one would find it without looking for it specifically. However, I had no problems playing any of the discs in my ps3. The box set is literally a box, though. Not one of the ones where you can just slide out the season you need from the side.

The show is excellent, but the bluray disks are authored in such a way that the player cannot "remember" where playback left of, and must always restart at the beginning of the disk. This forces the viewer to fast-forward through each and every one of the dumb previews to reach the main menu, and figure out where one left off. I cannot find a chapter menu either. A poor authoring job by fox studios.

Quite an interesting thought exercise. Granted, second half of second season got weird fast since they wound up compressing the story line when they found out they weren't getting their planned third season. We do like it, and it holds up well to re-watching. I do like the first season better than the second, but enjoy the full watch-through.

Played on my PS4. A couple discs gave me issues at first but after a few tries and some verbal coaxing my xenophobic PlayStation eventually accepted these foreign discs and once playing they worked flawlessly. If your Blu Ray player won't listen to reason, try forging a region 1 work visa with cardstock and crayons.

I wish it never ended. I find the science intriguing . I wanted more.

What can I say about Joss Whedon's Dollhouse that hasn't already been said??? I got impatient waiting for my DVR to catch a rerun of the less popular Season Two so I quickly added this to another purchase... I should have looked more closely at the Product Details before, but there are errors: Subtitles are in French, Portuguese, Spanish and English. Also, the Region it is actually A+B, so it will work in American Blu-Ray players if you don't order the both individual seasons for some reason. (There is also some nit-picking I could do about the seller, but the feedback page isn't working right now...)

The entire series in a box set , A must have for fans on the series or for those that missed it

Great box set, 6 bluray disc in total no problem playing it. This was a great show, too bad it was cancel after season 2.

Getting neither the reviews nor the viewers needed for the complete 5-year long run originally envisioned by its creator, "Dollhouse" is still a show that has a lot going for it. The story is good, as you'd expect from a show created by Joss Whedon, and the acting is really not bad either. Dushku has received some harsh criticism for her earlier work but I see nothing that's really wrong with her performance here. Adding to that the very good performance by Fran Kranz and Enver Gjokaj as well as the brilliance of guest stars like Amy Acker and Alan Tudyk, the acting is on par with most other TV shows out there. The fact that some of the actors had to play different characters every time they had a different personality in their heads must have been a real challenge.The premise is truly dystopic, although it doesn't seem so at first. In the early episodes of the show, we are just getting to know the characters, but over time, the penny drops: What if you could overwrite people's minds? What if you could move their consciousness from one body to another? Initially, it's merely intriguing, but when you think about it, there's nothing to stop the holders of such powers from living forever, taking complete control over the entire world and in essence doing whatever they want. This growing threat builds slowly from the end of the first season until it reaches its conclusion at the end of the second. Along the way, the main character "Echo" develops into something more than an empty shell of a person - one with her own distinct personality in addition to the ones she has been imprinted with.The downsides: First of all, the show's premise is the presence of "dolls" - people who appear normal but can be revealed to be imprinted with a set personality. A bit like the revelation of cylons in "Battlestar Galactica". This sets up some truly awesome switches: a person you always thought was a normal person can suddenly turn out not to be, or a person you thought was a doll can turn out to be normal. The problem is that the show overuses this strategy. As more and more people are exposed as dolls, you end up losing the element of surprise as the viewer simply thinks "I've seen this before", or worse: sees it coming. The other thing to criticise is that you do get the feeling that the second season was rounded off rather quickly. People were unceremoniously killed off, side plots were left unresolved and in the end, while we do get a proper ending (and not a cliffhanger), the whole thing was stormed through in order to get the series finished before the cancellation. Whether this was by design or unintentional, the result is that the major plotline in season 2 is the only one explored. In season 1, there were individual stories poking out from the main plot, whereas in season 2, there's no room for anything but the most important.Still, "Dollhouse" is a show you should watch if you're into sci-fi or you're a fan of Whedon's work. Some of the individual episodes are truly spectacular in their design, and in the end, you won't feel like you've wasted your time.

'Dollhouse' follows a secret underground organisation who imprint people's brains into different personalities. The show mainly follows Echo (Eliza Dushku) and her engagements. Throughout the show she begins to develop and become an individual person who plans on taking down the Dollhouse. At first I was unsure about this show as the first half of season 1 is poor and dis-jointed. The pilot episode 'Ghost' is also a poor choice and does not make the show seem interesting, instead just confusing. But after the first 6 episodes a continues storyline begins to kick-in and the episodes become more exciting. I enjoyed the storyline about Paul Ballard trying to find the Dollhouse. But then the season finale 'Epitaph One' was stupid and would have been better to include it before the 2nd part in the next season. Season 2 was much better, by then I knew most of the characters and this season has a continues storyline throughout.We all know Joss Whedon for 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', is this as good? no. It doesn't have the characters or the love that show did. But what Whedon does do here is bring a fresh and inventive take on sci-fi and technology. Some of show's episodes are brilliant, unique and are like short films. 'Haunted', 'Instinct', 'The Attic' and 'Meet Jane Doe' are some standout one's. And then the season finale's are set in the future. Also it's strange how Whedon only wrote/directed two of the shows episodes. Lastly, Eliza Dushku is BRILLIANT and her acting is so good considering she has to play various people.Overall, if you're a Joss Whedon or Eliza Dushku fan then you should watch this. It does start off quite poor and does take a while to get into. But there are some unique episodes and the show does invent a new take on sci-fi.

I really loved this series when it was on Netflix - now it's gone I've missed it and I had to purchase it for myself. It deals with some very uncomfortable issues in an entertaining way. As a survivor of abuse I found that I related to echo's character in a way that has not been achieved before or since. Producers love to show the gory details of abuse but never want to touch the emotional aspects, the real damage that happens and even though this is a horror/action/sci-fi series I think it deals with the emotional aspects really well. The moral ambiguity may be disturbing initially but becomes clearer as the series progresses.I wish the show had continued beyond the 2 seasons, though. [Spoiler Alert] I would have liked to have seen the series explore Echo and Sam Jennings relationship (from "Echoes") from inside the dollhouse. I think that would have been pretty interesting. I would have also liked to see the relationship between Echo and Caroline develop more fully, the 2nd season didn't get a chance to really go into this, Caroline was reunited and that was it, on to the next scene - we didn't get to see how she integrated back which I think would have been interesting also. [End Spoiler]Content:The series has quite a bit of violence and a little gore at times. Mainly shootings, there is one scalpel scene and a few other gory scenes. There are not many sex scenes and they are pretty mild - they could be considered sexual violence (and so they should) however they are not visually disturbing in that way.

"I'm a scary, depressive fellow," said Joss Whedon. "There's no meaning to life. That's kind of depressing. There's no God. That's a bummer, too."Joss's latest slice of scariness imagines a wicked corporation that turns people into endlessly reprogrammable organic robots - a lover, a mother, a thief, a detective...whatever the customer wants. Like Buffy and Angel before it, the series begins a little uncertainly. There are several episodes about prostitution which I feel come dangerously close to being meretricious, and others which are cruel in the extremity of their physical or psychological violence. Soon, though, the prospect of imminent cancellation seems to concentrate the writers' minds wonderfully, and the second season gives us a helter skelter thriller that twists and turns its way to an entirely satisfying conclusion.The tone of the show is broadly similar to that of Joss's earlier TV productions, if perhaps just a touch bleaker. There's plenty of laugh-out-loud humour leavening the drama, but not a great deal of the kind of warmth we got from dear old Xander or Willow. By the final episode of the twenty-six, though, the series becomes a worthy successor to the Vampire Slayer's - another inspiring tribute to heroic altruism in a world tortured by evil powers.Eliza Dushku is very much the star of Dollhouse, but never to the exclusion of her admirable colleagues, The cast includes such familiar Whedonverse favourites as Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof, Summer Glau, Felicia Day and a brilliant Alan Tudyk, as well as several alumni of 24 and Battlestar Galactica. The production values of the show are almost cinematic in their glossy luxury - this is one show that demands to be watched on Blu-ray rather than DVD. (Better than average extras include an unaired pilot, interesting behind the scenes featurettes and an amusing chat involving Joss and many of his colleagues.)In sum, then, if you can tolerate a fair amount of sex and violence, you'll be rewarded with a clever, inventive, witty, ambitious comedy-drama with a wholesomely affirmative message at its heart. No fan of Joss's earlier work need hesitate.

This show is definitely Joss Whedon's most underrated show. The sci-fi premise is very much in the vein of Phillip K Dick's work (think Bladerunner, Total Recall, Minority Report, The Adjustment Bureau - all movies based on his work).In this world, the technology exists which can take a person's personality, including all memories, and save it on a hard drive while wiping it from the conscious mind. Then a new personality can be programmed into the person while they're in a tabula rosa state. The implications for this are huge - assassins, whores, whatever you need a person to be, totally programmable people.The cast are all very good, with the only possible exception being Dushku herself, who, while still competent, is sometimes a bit cloying while in her "doll state". She's a superb action hero who is quite sexy and compelling while out on assignments, but something about her performance in the blank slate state leaves me a bit annoyed. HOWEVER... this is only a mild criticism and I find the series to be very watchable and much better than most people give it credit when discussing Whedon's more popular works. If you're a fan of mind-bender sci-fi, this is definitely worth your time.