Dr. Horrible’s Sing-​Along Blog started out free on the web­site, though only for a very lim­ited time. After that it was whisked away to iTunes where those of us too slow on the uptake were rep­ri­manded by having to pay 2 dol­lars an episode (total­ing an impres­sive six dol­lars). Trust me when I say that it was easily the best six dol­lars I will have spent this year, bar none.

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-​Along Blog is about “Billy” a bad buy - Dr. Hor­ri­ble - trying to make it into the big leagues. He’s also in love with a girl from the laun­dro­mat - Penny - and has his own neme­sis - Cap­tain Hammer. The three episode arc shows how Dr. Hor­ri­ble tries to get into the league, hands the girl of his dreams over to his neme­sis, and just how far he’ll have to go to be rec­og­nized as a true super-​villian.

Did I men­tion he video blogs at the start of the episodes? Fan­tas­tic.

Neil Patrick Harris was prob­a­bly the best cast­ing job ever per­formed by man-​kind, as he plays Dr. Hor­ri­ble so well that you can see that though he’s evil, he’s actu­ally a pretty nice guy. Nathan Fil­lion - ever present/utterly bril­liant in the Joss Whedon uni­verse - is given the job of play­ing Cap­tain Hammer, the arro­gant super hero that beats the hell out of Dr. Hor­ri­ble at almost every meet­ing. They both have feel­ings for Penny (Feli­cia Day) who is one of the most next-​door-​girl cute I’ve ever seen cast, and plays penny so well that I’d be hard-​pressed to find anyone who could fit the role better.

I’m trying to figure out if she dyes her hair from brown to red, or from red to darker red. I think I see roots, but I just can’t tell.

I fell in love with the series lit­er­ally from the open­ing of the first episode. Great intro music to some quick cred­its, fol­lowed by one of the best evil-​doer laughs ever recorded to film. You could bottle that and sell it on shelves it was so damned good. The rest of the story fol­lowed the same amount of effort and bril­liance, dim­ming only for the “Bad Hoof” songs, which didn’t really do it for me. I’m going to have to dub “Freeze Ray” as the best song out of the entire show. It’s just so damned cute in it’s own twisted way.

Find a way to see this people; Dr. Horrible’s Sing-​Along Blog is 43 min­utes of pure gold. I paid 6 dol­lars for it, and I hon­estly feel like I got a great deal out of it.

10/10