Welcome to
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.
Dollhouse only has five more episodes until it’s wiped, but the action will be non-stop, promises Enver Gjokaj (pronounced joke eye), who plays Victor, the male half of the Victor/Sierra romance. Gjokai gave TV Guide Magazine a preview of tonight’s double feature and offers up some hints about the final three shows (airing January 8, 15 and 22) and whether Echo and her pals can stop the really bad future that was shown in the seen-only-on-DVD episode “Epitaph One.†Brace yourself for MAJOR SPOILERS.
In this week’s Victor-centric episode, will we learn who the Dollhouse boy toy really is?
Yes, but it’s not a flashback. Adele [Olivia Williams] basically gets her heart broken on one of her dates with him. Even though he’s imprinted as her lover, he breaks up with her and say he’s in love with another person—though he doesn’t quite realize it’s Sierra [Dichen Lachman]. Adele gets into a really dark place and even though his contract isn’t quite up, she kicks him out of the Dollhouse. It turns out his real name is Anthony and the deal with him was that they’d take away his post-traumatic stress syndrome if he joined the Dollhouse.
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Screencaps of Enver’s performance in episode 2.08 were added to the gallery yesterday morning. Enjoy!
Screencaps of Enver’s brief appearances in episode 2.07 are now available in the gallery. Screencaps from episode 2.08 will be added later tonight.
Screencaps of Enver’s amazingly brilliant performance in episode 2.06 of Dollhouse are now available in the gallery. My apologies for the delay.
I’ve just updated the gallery with some new Season 2 promos and stills from episodes 2.04 and 2.08.
I’ll be adding screencaps from last week’s episode later this evening and follow up later in the weekend with screencaps from tonight’s episodes.
It may be hard to figure out how to pronounce Enver Gjokaj from seeing the name in print – for the record, the first name rhymes with “then there†and the surname rhymes with “joke eye†– but it’s easy to recognize the actor’s talent and versatility on Joss Whedon’s Fox series DOLLHOUSE.
As the “Active†Victor, California native Gjokaj plays a man whose mind has been wiped by the staff of the Dollhouse so that he can be “imprinted†with any personality to suit the wealthy clients who pay for his services on assignments – and sometimes he winds up accidentally programmed with personalities that were unintended.
Please visit ifmagazine.com to read the full article.
Enver what now? The actor (whose name is pronounced En-vair Jo-kai) is one of the ensemble cast of the recently cancelled (but still airing) FOX sci-fi show, Dollhouse. I’ve been a vocal supporter of the show, which apparently leads to series cancellation–see Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles–sort of a “Greenlee’s Law” if you will. The star of Dollhouse is Eliza Dushku, who also appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (all produced by genre great, Joss Whedon). But Dollhouse grew into a true ensemble piece, with uniformly good actors regularly outshining Dushku.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not on the Dushku-bashing band wagon so many other viewers are perched upon. Love her, seriously. But up against the acting of co-stars Olivia Williams, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz, Dichen Lachman, Alexis Denisof, Tamoh Pinekett, Harry Lennix and especially Enver Gjokaj, Dushku was bound to find herself a bit dwarfed. The premise of the show–if you don’t already know–is that a shady business called “Dollhouse” takes wayward souls, wipes their memories (consensually, mostly), and reprograms them for use as, well, just about anything. Mostly as fantasy fulfillment for the rich, but also for more useful purposes.
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FOX will be airing episodes 2.05 The Public Eye and 2.06 The Left Hand tonight so don’t forget to tune in. I hope to have caps up before the weekend is over, but I’ve got a ton going over the next couple of days and am not sure how much time I’ll have to work on the site. If I’m not able to add caps this weekend, they’ll definitely be added next week.
“Young woman with special abilities fights evil.” “Vampire fights crime.” “Cowboys and cowgirls (and a priest and some other people) in space.”
Joss Whedon’s previous shows may not have been “CSI: Des Moines” and they certainly never pulled in “CSI”-style ratings, but they weren’t all that hard to explain in a 15-second promo clip.
Of course, in execution, the shows were so much more than a one-sentence pitch. The heartfelt and probing explorations of love, loyalty, betrayal, friendship and morality seen in “Angel,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Firefly” meant that fans of those shows tend to be of the rabid variety.
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I gasped a little (and made my co-workers stare at me curiously) when I saw that “Dollhouse” has now officially been canceled. This isn’t a surprise. You don’t renew a show that you’ve yanked off the air for a month for November sweeps and that you’re going to air in double doses all at once. You don’t renew a show whose ratings are so poor, but still, it hurts. I’ve been lucky, I guess. The shows I’ve loved have mostly not been ratings powerhouses, and not mainstream attractions, but I’ve never had a show I really loved get pulled off the air mid-season, or at the end of the first season, or as in the case of “Dollhouse,” with just half of a normal-length second season. And this isn’t a worst-case scenario: Joss Whedon must have seen the writing on the wall and wrapped things up somewhat satisfactorily and all 13 episodes will air.
With the exception of “Veronica Mars” (and it was minor), I’ve never watched a show that ended on a cliffhanger to not return for another season. What’s saddest about the end of “Dollhouse” is the end of its potential. It was getting great, but it got great too late. Mistakes were made, not just by Fox (although the easy thing will be to blame them completely.) The biggest mistake was in ever believing that “Dollhouse” would work as a completely episodic show. “Dollhouse” came with a double-edge sword: loyal Whedonites (of which I am a card-carrying — if they have cards — member) came ready to watch. But then the first five or so episodes contained very little of what we watch Whedon shows for — witty, quirky humor and dialogue; complex and lovable (or not so lovable) characters and a fascinating unusual world.
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