'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.
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.