Dollhouse: Briar Rose Rewatch

October 30, 2020 6:45 PM - Season 1, Episode 11

Echo helps a troubled youth. Ballard finally locates the Dollhouse. He locates someone who designed the Dollhouse, now he's closer than ever to rescuing Caroline.

And, importantly, we’re finally introduced to Alpha!

AV Club: A-

posted by Kyol (3 comments total)

I suppose calling the episode "Sleeping Beauty" would've been too on the nose, huh.

I had just watched Doom Patrol before watching this the first time so I knew just how capable Alan Tudyk could be as a scenery chewing villain, but his introduction was also perfectly plausible. Poor Ballard.
posted by Kyol at 6:49 PM on October 30, 2020

I recall being fooled by the Alpha as the engineer until they got inside the house. Fun cover persona.

Hadn't noticed how jacked Tudyk is.

Ballard is getting gaslit by just everyone. Ouch.

Fair impersonation by Gjokaj. Not his best though (I think that would be his Topher).
posted by porpoise at 7:58 PM on November 2, 2020

Yeah, no fooling, every time Gjokaj impersonated Topher, I kinda wondered if they were just having Fran do ADR it was that good.
posted by Kyol at 6:02 AM on November 3, 2020 [1 favorite]