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TV on the Internet: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
If you’re a Joss Whedon fan (Firefly, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and countless comic books), you’ve come to appreciate the stable of actors he’s worked with over the years. You recognize them and can’t wait to see what he’ll have them doing next. Such is the case with his fun little jaunt known as Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.
Nathan Fillion (Firefly) and Felicia Day (who played small, but memorable roles in several of Whedon’s series) are two of the featured players in this three-part tragicomedy. The surprise in the mix is Neil Patrick Harris, who stars as the titular Dr. Horrible, a bumbling, D-grade villain with ambitions to break into the big leagues. He’s infatuated with gadgets and believes if he can get his freeze ray gun working, that will be his ticket to A-list status. He’s trying, he’s really trying, viewers learn from reports on his sad little video blog postings. It’s just that he has so many distractions: Penny (Day), the comely woman he sees weekly at the neighborhood laundrymat but can’t make himself talk to; his own ineptness; and worst of all, his foil, the cocky Captain Hammer (Fillion), who decides he has a thing for Penny as well.
Nathan Fillion (Firefly) and Felicia Day (who played small, but memorable roles in several of Whedon’s series) are two of the featured players in this three-part tragicomedy. The surprise in the mix is Neil Patrick Harris, who stars as the titular Dr. Horrible, a bumbling, D-grade villain with ambitions to break into the big leagues. He’s infatuated with gadgets and believes if he can get his freeze ray gun working, that will be his ticket to A-list status. He’s trying, he’s really trying, viewers learn from reports on his sad little video blog postings. It’s just that he has so many distractions: Penny (Day), the comely woman he sees weekly at the neighborhood laundrymat but can’t make himself talk to; his own ineptness; and worst of all, his foil, the cocky Captain Hammer (Fillion), who decides he has a thing for Penny as well.