Ringer
Ringer
TV-14 | 13 September 2011 (USA)
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    y-abul

    Hope to see a new episodes I miss the story need to continue there is missing subjects :)

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    tapio_hietamaki

    'Ringer' was a lot of fun to watch when it aired, but if you marathon it nowadays you're setting yourself up for a disappointment. The show was cancelled and the creators had to write the season into a dead end.Sarah Michelle Gellar of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' fame does a pretty great role here as white trash whose life takes a sharp, unexpected turn when her twin sister is lost at sea. Bridget is an ex-druggie, stripper and loser, whereas her sister Siobhan was wealthy and connected to the New York socialites. But Bridget almost accidentally ends up in a position where she can steal her sister's life - her husband, her house, her stepdaughter, her lover. Soon it turns out that Siobhan's outwardly picture-perfect life had a couple of hardships, too, and they're all thrust on Bridget's less-than-capable shoulders.The premise is endlessly entertaining with all its possibilities of delicious misunderstandings and embarrassing situations. The show takes a turn into thriller territory and has a lot of suspense, cliffhangers and surprises.It also has its faults. It treats its viewers as morons by having endless pointless flashbacks that irritatingly remind us of something that everybody remembers, and the anticlimactic ending ruins the build-up. Still, it was a lot of fun to watch and anticipate future episodes.

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    SnoopyStyle

    This was interesting at first. But it's gets too confused as they move from one twin to the other. It would have been better to keep one of them dead. Sarah Michelle Gellar does a good job at first. She deals with all the new stuff like the husband and daughter with great touch. But the show is asking way too much for Sarah to play twins and have them differentiated. Add to it the continuing evolving schemes and lies. Eventually the whole thing just becomes one big mess.Bridget (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is six months sober and starting to get her life back on track when she becomes the sole witness to a professional hit. She flees to New York, telling no one. In New York, Bridget reunites with her estranged twin, Siobhan. Wealthy, pampered and seemingly happily married, Siobhan lives what appears to be a fairy tale life. The identical twin sisters seem to be mending their frayed relationship, until Siobhan disappears overboard during a boat trip the two take together, and Bridget makes the split decision to take on her sister's identity. She discovers shocking secrets, not only about her sister and her marriage, but other secrets as well. Bridget soon realizes she is no safer as Siobhan than she is as herself.

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    Jason Daniel Baker

    Drug addict stripper (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is witness to a murder and hides out from the killer by pretending to be her conveniently missing identical twin sister (Sarah Michelle Gellar) - an icy socialite who married money and blazed a dark trail with shady characters of a different social strata.Absurd premise, unlikeable one-dimensional characters, appalling writing, terrible acting and a dead end plot that could barely be stretched beyond half a dozen episodes. But once you get past what are not exactly negligible obstacles like those you might let yourself enjoy it. This was an extended b-movie with a 1970s/1980s network TV feel and it had its moments.This was a series especially popular amongst tween and teen audiences and reminds me of the adult shows that I enjoyed when I was that age. At that age the details of what happens from point A to point D are not necessarily things you want to sweat so much.Audiences that need B and C (which this series wasn't that good at staging) are not necessarily more sophisticated but are generally older more demanding of subtext. A network like CW can cultivate younger demographics with shows like this knowing the link will have a lesser shelf life than something of more substance.

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