Joss and his slow beginnings, part II

[maggie2]

And tonight we learn, *finally*, that Dollhouse really *is* a Whedon show.   The whole Whedon package.  Plot twists, layers, challenging the audience's expectations, and raising hard questions about just about everything. 

I still have no idea why it took five episodes of some remarkably dull televsion to get here.  But whatever.  We have ourselves a show.
 

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Re: hous

[2maggie2.livejournal.com]

It took me forever to figure out what you were talking about! I have no idea where that heading came from. My computer is weird and sometimes skips me to other parts of the page without my noticing it. I wonder what I was trying to say when my 'hous' got morphed to the header...

I don't know Big Love. What is it?

Re: hous

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

I don't know Big Love. What is it?

It's an HBO series currently wrapping up its third season, starring Bill Paxton, Chloe Sevigny, Harry Dean Stanton, and a bunch of others. It's... kind of difficult to sum it up and make it sound as awesome as it is, but it's essentially a drama series about a mormon family in Utah. A polygamous family, one guy and his three wives, just trying to live a normal life in modern-day USA with the man bringing home the money and the wives serving him. And apart from being a rather excellent drama, it's also one of the subtlest and creepiest examinations of power structures, patriarchy, free will and all that jazz I've ever seen on TV; every episode basically makes me need to take a shower. And they're constantly playing off the audience's preconceptions, our wish to be tolerant towards others while at the same time telling ourselves that they're completely different and we're not anything like that...

Re: hous

[2maggie2.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the rec! It's added to my to-do list.