"Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog" Web Series - Salon.com Review

You’ve been away far too long, Joss Whedon. It’s been three years since "Serenity," the big-screen adaptation of your short-lived series "Firefly." It’s another six months till your next series, "Dollhouse," debuts on Fox. So you’ll have to forgive me if I lapse into slavish overpraise here for Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, the utterly brilliant singing, dancing, Web-only action-adventure you and your brothers have cooked up. I hope it doesn’t sound like hyperbole when I say that Dr. Horrible is better than kittens and sunshine and cheese. Doled in three tantalizing, quarter-hour-long nuggets (the first two went up earlier this week, the conclusion debuts July 19), "Dr. Horrible" stars an impeccably dorky Neal Patrick Harris as a would-be supervillain who pines for his lovely laundromat crush, Penny (a luminous Felicia Day), while battling nemesis and rival Captain Hammer, a musclebound jerk played with idiot bravado by "Firefly’s" Nathan Fillion. Will Horrible create his freeze ray and earn his way into the Evil League of Evil ? Will he get the girl ? Tuneful, hilarious and, in typical Whedon fashion, unabashedly tender, the only thing wrong with Dr. Horrible is that the damn thing isn’t a regular series.