Ringer

2011

Seasons & Episodes

  • 1

6.9| 0h30m| TV-14| en
Synopsis

Six months after deciding to pull herself together and get sober, Bridget witnesses a murder. Realizing her life is in danger and not trusting the FBI to protect her, she runs to her wealthy twin sister, Siobhan, in New York. Things start out well—with the two patching up a fractured relationship—when Siobhan suddenly goes missing. Bridget assumes her sister's identity, but soon learns that Siobhan's life is not as perfect as it looks and she is no safer than she was before

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Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
Buffye Slayre of Vampyres This is a rare gem of a TV drama and fully deserved a second season, if not for the ratings, then at least for they way they set it up. In the fullness of time, I think it will acquire a cult status and it will be regretted by many that it was left hanging.It was the right thing to do not to have Bridget and Andrew walking off into the sunset together. It was smarter still to avoid having Bridget and Siobhan come face-to-face and also, to wait until the very end for Bridget to discover the truth about Siobhan. A hypothetical sequel could, therefore, explore any number of intriguing possibilities.Now that it is all in the open, would the two sisters go after each other or would blood eventually prove thicker than water?Siobhan, in seeking to carry through her bid to 'reclaim her old life', would, presumably, see Bridget as an obstacle to this. Bridget, for her part, with the fog finally lifted, has the upper hand in the relationship for the first time. How would she react to the realisation that her sister had set her up to be murdered, when all along, she thought she was the one who wronged Siobhan?Someone, somewhere, should return to this project and give it a new lease of life, even if it is just another season, to bring it to a proper conclusion. I don't know much about how TV production works but, presumably, it would have to happen soon, or the cast will be too old to fit into the roles. Maybe they could take a leaf out of the book of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and continue it in comic book form!
blanche-2 What is the problem with CW that they took this off the air after one season? Yes, season 1 was tied up for the most part, but you knew from the end that there were lots of exciting plots for season 2. The characters were left in limbo. Couldn't they have least done a special two-hour episode where they finished up? I'm really angry about this. I binge-watched, so I saw more flaws maybe than the average viewer. However, there are two things that I love - movies about twins and makeover movies, where someone has plastic surgery and changes their face.Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as twins, Siobhan and Bridget. Bridget is a drug user and prostitute who witnessed a murder and right before she is supposed to testify against the killer, who is a monster, she becomes frightened and takes off for parts unknown. She runs to New York city and to her estranged sister, Siobhan. Siobhan married money, but she's a piece of work, as you will see.Bridget and Siobhan seem to have settled their differences and go out to Siobhan's beach house. While they are out on Siobhan's boat, Bridget falls asleep. When she wakes up, her sister is gone, and it seems that she has committed suicide. As in "A Stolen Life," "Dead Ringer," "Deceptions," and "The Dark Mirror," Bridget steals her sister's identity. She intends to leave as soon as her Narcotics Anonymous sponsor can get to her, but it doesn't work out that way.Ringer was a really good series, not as good as something like Homeland or The Americans or Mad Men, but still good. There were some problems, one of which was some of the dialogue. "We have to talk" was said at least 20 times on every episode - I might not have noticed except as I said, I binge watched. The other problem was the situation with Henry - I mean, how many times can he say he's through and stop seeing her? He broke things off with Siobhan in just about every episode.Here's the next problem. Sarah Michelle Gellar, an immensely popular actress. Personally, I didn't find her very good, though attractive, and here's why. First of all, in real life, twins can't really substitute for one another unless the person absolutely doesn't know them. Everyone has their own aura, their own way of talking and moving, and it doesn't matter how identical they are. Case in point: a young woman was hit on the head with a rock, woke up in the park, and had amnesia (true story). With no identification, the hospital put her photo in the paper. Her parents rushed to the hospital. When they met her, they weren't sure it was really her. Because she didn't know who she was, everything about her was different. So it's not just looks, and differentiating twins by having one with her hair down and one with her hair up is a cheap trick.Bridget was street-wise, rougher, tougher, unsophisticated. She wouldn't have spoken like Siobhan, she wouldn't have moved like Siobhan. Siobhan had an air of sophistication honed by several years of marriage to money and living the good life. She was also a colder person and more detached. Yet sometimes, even with the hairdos, I wasn't sure who it was in the scene.That aside, the cast was fine: Welsh actor Ioan Gruffud as Siobhan's husband, Andrew Martin; Kristoffer Polaha as Siobhan's friend Gemma's husband Henry; Nestor Carbonell as Victor Machado, the detective assigned to Bridget's case; Zoey Deutch as Siobhan's stepdaughter; soap star Justin Bruening as Siobhan's boyfriend Tyler; and Andrea Roth as Andrew's ex-wife Catherine.I think CW made a mistake taking this off the air. It became more and more interesting as the episodes continued, and I understand there was a campaign to keep it on the air. A shame it didn't work.
Joxerlives Like most other people I watched this because I was a huge Buffy fan and was always glad to see SMG back on the screen. With Ringer she has a much more challenging role, trying to play 2 sisters who are physically absolutely identical but light years apart in terms of their personalities and circumstances. Also nice to see Amber Benson guest starring as one of Bridget's stripper pals, a very radical departure from Tara. Shame we never get to see her perform and that she doesn't have any scenes with SMG. So what happened next? Personally I was looking for the pair to be reconciled. Who knows, maybe they will be? Or maybe they'll still stay apart, Siobhan using her appearance to burgle Henry and Andrew's apartments and start over again with her twins, she seems an extremely resourceful lady with no shortage of brains and looks she can exploit. Not least she knows that Henry killed Tyler and it would be unthinkable that she wouldn't use that against him at some point (at the end of the series the sister's circumstances are effectively reversed from what we see at the beginning). What happened to Malcom? Is he the body the FBI found in the final episode and if so was her killed by Bodicay or by Andrew? Or if we'd made it to a second season would he have popped up again? Will Andrew take Bridget back? Will he ever find out about his new twin daughters? So all told I enjoyed Ringer very much and would definitely have watched a second season, shame we never got one.
veronica2989 I think the Ringer was a great show and I was really looking forward for season 2.I really wanted to see what was going to happen next and I'm upset that the show didn't make it.The cast was great and I love Sarah Michelle Gellar. I'm a big fan and I really hope they bring it back,please make season 2 possibly next year. So many good shows get cancelled and its not fair. I truly believe a show this good shouldn't have been cancelled solely based on only the first season. The show deserved to have more episodes to see if people responded to it as strongly as they do now that its cancelled. The ratings should not also only based on TV but the fan base it has on major networking sites like facebook and everywhere else. Actors do what they love for there fans and I one of the many fans is disappointed I can't see the ringer or my favorite actors.