Double Dose of SMG please

My wife all ready knows this. I have a huge crush on Sarah Michelle Gellar. I guess it came from her days on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but in my days before I became a kept man, I used to cut her picture out of magazines and tape them up in my room at my mothers house where I lived for about 6 years after graduating from college. Then around the same time I started dating my wife Sarah disappeared from view. Buffy was over, her movie career was not one of the best. So she got married to Freddie Prinze Jr. and had a baby girl. Then she went in mom mode around the time that I got married and had a daughter to. I never saw any of her movies she made after Buffy, though I am sure sometime in the next few years I will be watching the Live Action Scooby Doo's because my kids may become interested in them.  So last year I was excited to hear that she was coming back to TV albeit on the CW. Originally CBS was going to air it, but ended up just producing it and sold it to the CW. What might have been if it had a major network backing. However RINGER appears to be getting cancelled after one season. And I'm ok with that.

It took me a while to warm up to RINGER, but now with the end in sight I have new respect for it. Because it reminds me of a Noir Novel. Each episode ends on a cliffhanger or big surprise like a lot of books do that get you to come back for more. Or get you excited to read the next chapter. As the weeks progressed on the show the story got crazier and more intricate, and more addictive. Despite all that it did not appear to me like they were throwing stuff on a wall to see what makes it stick. They had a plan and each crazy twist makes sense in the end when you view the story a few eps from the twist. It keeps your interest and makes you wonder what will happen next and how can this end happily for everyone involved.

At it's heart it is a revenge tale. (POSTING SPOILERS RIGHT NOW!!! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!)

Siobhan and Bridget are twins. And they are both played by Sarah Michelle Gellar. Yummy!! They had a falling out a few years ago over the death of Siobhan's son who Bridget was taking care of and accidentally was killed in a car accident in a car driven by Siobhan's estranged baby daddy Dylan. (Yes that IS awesome) Siobhan has never forgiven her sister and moved to New York where she fell in love with a married man and stole him from his wife. His name is Andrew. He is played by Ioan Gruffaud who played Mr. Fantastic in the two Fantastic Four movies that were released a few years ago. They got married and are living the life of the rich. And Siobhan hates it. So she starts having an affair with her best friends husband Henry (Kristoffer Polaha). Siobhan then starts planning a caper that would destroy Andrew and also maybe kill Bridget as well.

Bridget meanwhile has been hitting the bottle hard and working as a stripper in Utah. (YESSS!) She witnesses a murder and FBI agent Machado (Nestor Carbonell from LOST. He with the pretty pretty eyebrows) gets her to testify against the man who did it. A crime boss named Mcowey. But at the last minute she panics and runs to New York to try to patch things up with Siobhan. Siobhan greets her with open arms and tells her she forgives her. They take a trip to the Catskills where Andrew and Siobhan have a vacation home and Bridget and Siobhan go out for a ride on a boat. Bridget exhausted from running falls asleep. When she comes to Siobhan is gone and she is in the middle of the water in a boat. Believing Siobhan has comitted suicide Bridget returns to land and decides to disappear by becoming Siobhan. She convinces everyone that she is Siobhan and soon discovers that Siobhan's life has not been all Champagne and Roses so she goes out of her way to try and repair Siobhan's life. She tries to get Siobhan and Andrew to be happy again and in the process she falls in love with Andrew. She tries to repair Siobhan's relationship with Andrew's daughter who hates Siobhan for breaking up their family. She immediately puts an end to the affair Siobhan had with Henry and tries to get her best friend to like her again.

However while trying to fix up their new loft which is being built. Bridget discovers a man who wants Siobhan dead and starts shooting at Bridget. Bridget gets the upper hand and kills the gunmen. Now she has to discover who tried to kill Siobhan. So Bridget starts digging more into Siobhan's life and discovers all kinds of wild and crazy things. And everytime she discovers something something else even weirder pops up and Bridget has to make sense of it all.  Then we discover that Siobhan actually faked her death and has travelled to Paris for some reason that has slowly been getting revealed.

There are a ton more of side storylines with the other characters that pop up in the story. Including the kidnapping of Siobhan's best friend, Andrew's daughter charging that her teacher has raped her, Machado trying to put McOwey away without Bridget's help. Bridget's sponser Malcolm (Mike Colter) is put in danger by McOwey to draw out Bridget, Andrew's possible Ponzi Scheme, The re-apperance of Andrew's ex-wife,  Siobhan's pregnancy and what her scheme is towards Andrew and Bridget, Henry trying to get his father in law to invest in Andrew's company. Mysterious people, murder, double crosses, big money, gunplay, and more. It is more than a soap opera it is a modern day Noir story. And I can't get enough of it.

Well Dylan if you love it so much why are you ok with no second season? To be honest after everything that has happened in this show, I do not know how you can have a second season without it seeming like a re-hash of the first season. The pretending to be your twin story has now been done, and where do you go after all of this? Is it possible that they had ideas for more seasons? Probably since networks tend to not give just one season to a show. They like to see that if it becomes successful that it can sustain multiple seasons.  But what you get with Ringer is a finely crafted Noir Novel with a true beginning, middle, and hopeful a fulfilling ending. With only 3 episodes left we shall see what happens. I will get back on in a few weeks to let you know if I was happy with the ending or not.