I adore Dollhouse and wish everybody did as well, but it is a heavily flawed show. If you didn't get past episode six, you should definitely push through a bit more, because that's when things get interesting and more about what they're actually about, where the early episodes made the whole thing seem like it was going to be some kind of sadistic procedural. But the show was never really given the opportunity to gel. The pacing of season two is flat-out comedic because they basically knew when they were being cancelled and thus set out to tell the whole story arc they wanted to tell in the time allotted. The ideas are sublime, the execution less so . . .