+ backdoor pilot I guess?

Finally!

It's like YEAH, rawr, foreign language such and such.

FX spent two or three seasons resolving as many weeks on The Shield.

No, I mean, you're right. Dollhouse fanboys always insist FOX forced them into the episodic format, but interviews with Whedon and Dushku make it pretty clear that this was always intended.

The show changes the books in, I think, 3 principal ways:
(1) Mechanical: flow or speed increase without major narrative dissonance;
(2) Character development: Sexposition and confessional diarrhea in lieu of inner monologue (or a tasteful narration device); and
(3) Chicks!: To spend more time on them or make their…

I mean like, yeah, you like things that are bad. Congrats.

OK bro

tldr

You're actually a clown?

Nor apparently can you explain why you like it, clown.

So like, you just want to watch an anthology?

Yeah, the whole thing with poor Mikey is very much this show's preferred brand of drama.

No, she was on the show IN season 2. And maybe a few episodes since then, + 1 "whole episode . . . to establish her" as meaningful in this season.

Okay lol.

Here's a question. How many people know the names of any of Boyd's minions off the top of their heads?

You mean, for not being serialized or incorporating any of the innovations typical of modern television?

The single conflict seeming to have some manner of deserved import is the Mikey/Duffy deal, and it's probably the least important?

It goes without saying that this show's chief problem has always been its habitual externalizing of dramatic conflict to secondary and seasonal characters (i.e. criminals).

If anything it feels like they get in the way of the "actual story," which is Liv's adaptation to her new "life."