• eightpix@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    The Dollhouse.

    A bunch of hyper-sexualized women held in coffins against their will in a state of childlike innocence. Intermittently, they have personalities downloaded into them, using computer technology, making them Alpha-powered super-assassins.

    When one of them gets too woke, she is suppressed, coerced, and gaslit into buying back into the fascist agenda of the faceless corporation running the Dollhouse.

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      11 hours ago

      It’s just called Dollhouse

      They also have men not just women.

      And it’s basically like Westworld except they have more personalities vs just western.

      Its actually a very good show and is anti capitalist/ rich crazies

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      20 hours ago

      Did you not finish the show? There’s an entire apocalypse and redemption arc you’re just glossing over.

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        16 hours ago

        I did.

        Do you me the Apocalypse wherein anyone ::: spoiler spoiler could be reprogrammed over a loudspeaker, or a telephone call ::: ?

        As we lurch toward our own Apocalypse — take your pick between environmental, economic, technological, political, nuclear, or any combination thereof — it seems that Epstein-island espionage elicits ick in every instance.

        That’s most of the series.

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      20 hours ago

      As someone who’s never seen this, this sounds like a good premise for something horribly dystopian. Unless the series isn’t about how terrible this is…

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        15 hours ago

        Yes, they wind it down.

        spoiler

        Most of the world is destroyed and they iced Helo (Tahmoh Penikett) for no good reason but shock.

        And the good guys pull off a very Pyrrhic victory. Closing the Dollhouse before they figured out how to make scenario: techno-nightmare happen would have made the series shorter. But, I’m pretty sick of the “we can’t put the tech genie back in the bottle” defense. Under this ideal, every tech needs to grow to Godzilla size or fade into obsolescence.