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Brilliant, a tribute site dedicated to the incredibly talented actor Enver Gjokaj who is best known for his multi-layered portrayal of Victor on Joss Whedon's television series
Dollhouse. The goal of the site is to bring you, the fans, an up-to-date resource covering the span of his career. Thanks for visiting and stay tuned for all the latest on Enver and his career. Please feel free and contact me with any questions you may have or if you'd like to contribute news, photos, etc.
Victor has become a fan favorite in Dollhouse. His infatuation with Sierra (Dichen Lachman) suggests relationships possibly real or constructed. In the show’s second season, actor Enver Gjokaj will have even more to play.
“They just love to mess with Victor, man,†Gjokaj said. “Poor Victor. Victor’s going to be imprinted with a lot of really twisted people this season. I wouldn’t say a lot but a few notable ones and then they also like to make a fool of Victor. Or maybe me. Maybe it’s just Enver Gjokaj, they like to see me dance around like an idiot. There’s going to be some twisted, ridiculous stuff. It’s either going to be funny or horrifying or just the biggest hot mess that you’ve ever seen on national television, but it’s going to be something.â€
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I’ve just updated the gallery with screencaps of Enver in episode 2.01 of Dollhouse. Click here to view them all.
Fans know that the second half of “Dollhouse’s” first season is when the show hit its storytelling stride as more was revealed about the Dollhouse and those that run it and live there. Luckily for us, and for them, seeing as how their renewal was more than a little uncertain, they continued on the path of discovery with the second season premiere episode, “Vows.”
Seems to be a great start, and, yes, that is Jamie Bamber of “Battlestar Galactica” fame with Eliza Dushku’s Echo! Apollo and Helo together again, but I digress. We’re only one episode in and we can see trouble a-brewin’ on all kinds of fronts, especially from within. The cool thing is that with Joss Whedon, you’re not sure exactly where, when or how the situations will pop up. A few of the main plotlines:
The moral struggles with a couple of the show’s main characters — Paul Ballard (Tahmoh Penikett) and Boyd Langton (Harry Lennix) — over Echo and her treatment are easily palpable. Though one is strangely romantic and one is weirdly paternal, neither really knows her. It’s an awesome cushion for Echo.
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FOX’s “Dollhouse” returns for its unlikely second season on Friday (Sept. 25) night in an unusual situation.
“Dollhouse” is still stranded on Friday nights and FOX has given it what may be the worst and least compatible lead-in in TV history with “Brothers” and “‘Til Death.” The network has produced a terrific series of outdoor ads for the show, but on-air promotion has been minimal (as befits FOX’s roughly 20:1 ratio of “Glee”-to-everything-else advertising).
But if those are the bad side, there has to be the assumption that FOX’s neglect is benign. The network may not be pushing “Dollhouse,” but FOX still brought the show back and it’s fair to guess that what’s premiering on Friday is closer to the seres that Joss Whedon wants to be making than it was last spring.
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Despite not-so-hot ratings, “Dollhouse” got a second-season reprieve and will embark on its new journey Sept. 25. Whew!
After some tense moments for creator Joss Whedon and Whedonites everywhere, Whedon sat down — maybe he was sitting; this was a phone interview — to talk with Show Tracker about upping the ante for Season 2, how he writes for his audience, his extracurriculars and his film “Cabin in the Woods.”
Show Tracker: What was the first thing you did when you found out that “Dollhouse” was renewed?
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Whedon is once again directing the scene in Dollhouse, in what he has called “the biggest surprise of my career” – a second season for his genre-bending, mind-altering science-fiction allegory about stolen identities.
The cautionary conspiracy tale about empaths, so-called “dolls” whose identities have been wiped clean and imprinted with new personalities, debuted earlier this year to mixed reviews. Critics were torn between those who found the concept engaging and provocative, and those who found it off-putting and pretentious.
That was then, this is now. Whedon, the auteur-writer-filmmaker who created Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Emmy Award-winning musical tragicomedy Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, no longer cares what the critics say about his latest TV creation.
All he cares about now is that he has a second chance to tell the story he wanted to tell all along.
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Dollhouse is once again open for business and creator Joss Whedon sat down with reporters to talk about lives, the loves, and the cool guest stars coming up in the new season. Dollhouse returns to Fox on September 25 at 9:00.
Dollhouse was pretty close to not getting that second season pick-up. Why do you think Fox changed their minds?
Joss: I think it’s the nature of the business and the nature of the fan base. The nature of the fan base is they’re in it for the long haul, and they’re nurturing, and they’re intense about it and they will see it through. They will stick with it and that means years after it’s cancelled. Firefly still sells, Buffy still sells, and that’s also a business thing for the studio. They’re in it for the long haul because they know the long haul is how my work pays off. I don’t make hit shows. I make shows that stick around that people come to long after they would have stopped generating revenue in the old system.
With the advent of DVD and the eventual monetization of Online, there’s a market there that exists beyond your Nielsen numbers, and the fans showing up and DVRing, and buying a DVD, and proving on all my other projects that they don’t do these things lightly, that it runs deep in them, means that the base doesn’t have to be as broad for the studio to think it’s worth it to try and eke out another season.
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The new season of Dollhouse is fast approaching – though not fast enough for its legion of fans (we still have to wait until next Friday, September 25). So we had a ton of questions for sometimes tight-lipped creator Joss Whedon when we spoke with him during a press conference call yesterday. Though he didn’t spill everything, we did learn about what’s in store for the characters this season, where the central story arc is going, and what roles newcomers Summer Glau and Ray Wise will play – heck, we even got Joss to talk a little bit about Cabin in the Woods. Read the interview below, and look for our review of the season premiere next week.
How will Echo, with the many characters she’s flashing to, come in to her own this season?
Basically through force of will. She did have all those personalities dumped into her at once, and as we pick up, we are going to find out that that is starting to affect her. She is much more directed, and driven – even in her Doll state, she is growing and learning. She understands she has a mission now, to get everyone back to their personalities.
How many seasons do you see Dollhouse going?
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