Eliza Dushku is making numerous appearances to help pimp her new show “Dollhouse” on the Fox network. The show premiered last month to mixed reviews:

Dollhouse has had, as of February 26, 2009, mixed or average reviews, and currently has a 57/100 rating on metacritic.com,[41] with its best reviews from the Philadelphia Daily News, who says “Dollhouse is less about the ninja kicks and witty banter than it is about instant transformations, and about making the audience care about a character who’s likely to behave differently every time we see her. That Dushku mostly pulls this off is a happy surprise, as is Dollhouse, which has survived “Firefly”-like trials of its own to get this far.”[42] Salon.com says “Combining intelligent layers of mystery with sly dialogue and a steady flow of action, Whedon has crafted a provocative, bubbly new drama that looks as promising as anything to hit the small screen over the course of the past year.”[43] On the other end, the Miami Herald says “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.”[44] Brian Lowry of Variety also wrote “[Dushku's] grasp of this vague, personality-changing character is a bit of a muddle. What’s left, then, is a series with a hollow center that doesn’t initially make you care about its mentally malleable protagonist.”[45] Falling somewhere in-between, Robert Bianco of the USA Today wrote, that though Dollhouse is not boring or ordinary, the end result remains to be a show “that his most devoted fans will debate and embrace, and a mass audience just won’t get.” [Source]

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