TV: Dollhouse: "Needs"

Back when Dollhouse premiered, I had tagged it as a cross between Alias and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind . The first seven episodes have heavily favored the former over the latter: Lots of standalone operations where Echo goes out and gets into trouble, mixed with some carefully parsed-out revelations about the innerworkings of an underground operation not unlike SD-6 in its scope, cutting-edge technology, and fiendish manipulation of its own operatives. “Man On The Street” went a long way towards deepening the conceit by broaching the issues of memory and loss raised by Eternal Sunshine ; unlike a client looking ... (link)