What can we expect for Season Two of Dollhouse?  We’ve got answers right here from the cast!

The darker groove of Season Two of “Dollhouse”

Tahmoh Penikett who plays Paul Ballard, the former FBI agent who fought to find the Dollhouse and now is Echo’s handler, talks about the tone of this season:

“It reminds me very much, to be honest with you, of the unaired original pilot. It’s dark. The show seems to have found its theme and its music. It’s ironic, but I think we’ve come full circle, and it works and it makes sense, and it is the show. You understand that, and the feeling on the set with the actors and the writers and everyone is like, ‘OK, we’ve got it now. We’ve got it. This is it.’ Even me personally as an actor, I’ve just been feeling much happier with the work and much more confident, because it just makes sense. Last year was bumpy at times, very bumpy. It’s difficult to work like that.”

Sex in the Dollhouse!

Victor and Sierra won’t be able to keep their hands off each other this season.  Dichen Lachman (Sierra) on the doll love:

“There’s just hints. I think with Victor and Sierra, it’s a difficult thing to go into, because they’re both people with no persona, but I think you’re going to be excited when you see. You’ll be very happy.”

Enver Gjokaj (Victor) adds:

“Oh, who cares about Victor? Come on. Just have him looking at Sierra in the shower. Listen, I love it, but only Joss knows where the mythology’s going to go. Victor’s such a simple little soul, isn’t he? It’s not even [that he’s] in love. He’s just fixated on Sierra. I think our lovely fans have responded to that, and I think people have told Joss that they like that storyline, so I think we’re going to see it. I think when it comes to stuff that I get to do, a lot of it has to do with Sierra and that little developing love story.”

Paul Ballard’s role in the Dollhouse

Now that Paul is on the inside, how is this going to work? Tahmoh Penikett explains:

“I think when we meet him at the top of this season, Paul’s not OK with it. He’s not sitting pretty. But he also sees an opportunity to take advantage of this technology and do some good, correct some wrongs that he made in the past, some unclosed cases. For instance, Martin Klar—which you [see] in ‘Vows’ with Jamie Bamber. I guess the interesting question will be how long will his conscience allow this? Does he have a hidden agenda? Is he still trying to take down the Dollhouse? What’s going to happen? I think it’s obvious that he and Adelle have an understanding. She knows that he doesn’t like it, he doesn’t agree with it, but he is working for her. She also knows that if Paul has the opportunity, if he ever feels his life’s in danger, he’ll do whatever he can to expose her.”

“Paul and his skills as an FBI field agent are really going to come into play, and the Dollhouse is going to realize how valuable of an asset he really is.  His interrogation skills, his profiling skills, are going to come into play. There’s going to be an opportunity, a really cool episode coming up, [writer] Tim Minear’s episode, actually, where I have to interrogate a possible killer. I try to get into the mind of him. It’s a really, really interesting and dark episode, so that’s one situation we’ve got coming up.”

Echo’s ability to composite herself/ herselves

From the first season’s finale, we see that Echo can composite all the previous imprints like Alpha did and not go insane.  Eliza Dushku talks about how Echo deals with this:

“I think each imprint that goes wrong, she’s absorbing something new, and it’s all going to take her in the direction of how she’s ultimately going to shake things out.  So she’s sort of doing her own heroic acts of helping people or saving people. Without giving too much away, I think it—in a way it strengthens her case, and then I think at other times she finds that out in these missions, she’s glitching in ways that she comes to control the outcome.”

Old relationships die hard in the Whedonverse as Faith is still torturing Wesley

Alexis Denisof guest stars this season as a Senator out to expose the Dollhouse.  Eliza Dushku (Echo) recalls their old “Angel” days of working with each other:

“What, when I had Pam cooking spray and the lighter and I was torturing [Wesley] tied to a chair? [This is] not that different, as a matter of fact. I’m still kind of torturing the poor man. The episode we’re about to start now is sort of a continuation of the last episode with Alexis Denisof. It’s just amazing. We spent the whole last episode together.”

The senior partners… er… PTBs will raise their heads

This season, we know that Ray Wise will be guest starring on “Dollhouse” as the head of one of the other Dollhouses.  It sounds like he might outrank the mighty Adelle DeWitt.  Penikett drops some hints:

“You’ll see in this season the powers that be above Adelle really flex their muscle and their strength. You’ll see this powerful figure who we know as Adelle DeWitt really be tested. You’ll understand how fearful she is of her employers and the people above her, which is a really interesting storyline. My character does get to meet one of them in particular. And I think one of the coolest things you’re going to love this season, we get into backstory a little bit about why people are working at the Dollhouse, why they’re there, which is one of the most compelling things that we don’t really explore in the first season other than with Echo.”

Catch “Dollhouse” on Fox, Fridays 9/8 C.

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