Premise:Twin sisters Bridget and Siobhan (both played by Gellar) have been at odds for the last six years and find that their lives are both unraveling at the same rate. Bridget, a recovering alcoholic and ex-stripper, is on the run from the mob after witnessing a murder. She flees to her twin sister Siobhan's home.
I don't want to give anymore away than that, because it quickly spirals from there.
First off, the green screen work in this episode was so brutally amateur it was laughable. I had read comments on Twitter during the airing about it, but I really didn't think it would be that bad. Awful. It's really not all that professional when the camera loses focus either. But hey, don't let that take away from the great potential this show has.
They made great use of the classic tv storytelling technique of showing you the end and then rewinding to see how we got to that moment, then throwing in a juicy nugget in right after. The CW is certainly stepping into some unknown territory with this one, typically when you think of the CW, you think teenie bopper type shows or should I say, youth oriented. This is a show that is dark, complex and very well acted. Not that other CW shows aren't well acted. They just aren't this dark and certainly aren't this complex.
I don't want to talk too much about what happens during the middle because I really don't want to spoil it for anyone that might be reading this. But the Ringer has certainly put itself in a great position with several story-lines that will allow the writers to go in any direction they really want to go with this. Each character seems to have something shady going on, hidden away, some dirty little secret that they don't want getting out. I love that.
After the promos I was intrigued. After the pilot I'm hooked and I want to see where this goes from here.
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