Dollhouse -- just the moment after it was canceled, it has become beyond awesome. Damn you Fox!
I can't agree I'm afraid, it seems to be to have become a confused, jumbled mess. I'm having trouble following the plot.
No doubt partly caused by panicking about the likelihood of being canceled and rushing to cram stuff in.
For sure, they hurried up the big story arc so we could see that there was something more than the whore-du-jour going on. Now, if they'd only dropped season 1 and started the show at season 2, they probably would have gotten much farther down the road.
(In hindsight, it's amazing that Babylon 5 survived its first season to actually get rolling. B5 didn't really hit its stride until the third season, and then there was the hurry-up-and-finish of season 4, followed by the "well, I guess we can keep going" of season 5. Sigh.)