Ringer (US TV Series) Review - Season 1 Episode 1 - Spoiler Alert

If you like Sarah Michelle Gellar then I would say that you would definitely like this programme because there are two of them! 

Sarah plays twins Bridget Kelly and Siobhan Martin. 

I saw it advertising last year on Sky and I was really excited about watching it but some how I managed to miss the first episode so I started watching it on demand but after watching just 2 episodes Sky deleted it from on demand. I wasn't impressed and spend the next year searching the Sky TV guide for it in the hope that it would come back on and a few weeks ago it did, so YAY! 

They put either 2 or 3 episodes on a week so I don't have to wait long and I am already up to episode 10 without writing any reviews. But last night I convinced my other half to watch it with me so I have just watched the Pilot again. My other half joked that every end of part ends on an 'EastEnders duff duff' and it does and so does the end of each episode. 

So this here is my review of the Pilot Episode. 

Pilot 

The episode begins with Sarah Michelle Gellar getting chased and then attacked in a large building. When her attacker catches her and wrestles her to the ground she shouts out 'You've got the wrong girl'. 
I found myself willing her to do some sort of 'Buffy move' and put him in his place but obviously she doesn't. However, she plays the roles of both twins extremely well I soon stopped comparing her to Buffy and even forgot she was. 

The story then goes back to 9 days before and we see Bridget Kelly at an AA meeting.

Bridget Kelly a newly sober exotic dancer is about to testify as the sole witness in a murder trial. Fearing for her safety she ditches her FBI handlers, steals one of their guns and sneaks off to reconnect with her twin sister Siobhan.

We discover that Bridget and Siobhan haven't spoken in over 6 years and it is implied that it was because of Bridget's drug problem. Bridget then mentions someone called Sean, but Siobhan doesn't want to talk about him. Later on Bridget finds a photo of Sean (a young boy) and Siobhan. No one else mentions Sean so I am assuming that he was Siobhan's son who ended up dead because of Bridget. However, this hasn't been confirmed yet, just implied. 

Siobhan informs Bridget that her husband of 5 years, Andrew, doesn't know that she has a twin sister. I kind of wanted him to walk in and see the two of them but that didn't happen. If it did then it would have ruined the whole series, but it would have been funny. 

Siobhan takes Bridget out on her boat and Bridget falls asleep. When Bridget wakes up, Siobhan has disappeared but left her wedding ring behind in an empty pill bottle. Bridget assumes that Siobhan has committed suicide.

We then fast forward a few days and Bridget’s on the phone, confessing to Malcolm. “I saw a way out and I took it,” Bridget says.
Apparently, when she couldn’t find Siobhan (or her body), Bridget didn’t call the cops instead, she assumed her sister’s identity. She heads back to her sister’s summer mansion where she changes into her sister’s clothes, puts on Siobhan’s wedding ring, and pulls her hair back up into a socialite’s bun. 

She locks her belongings up in a locker at the bus station and then heads in to Manhattan as the new Mrs. Siobhan Martin.
As Bridget slips into her sister’s Park Avenue life, we discover that she may have exchanged her mob boss woes for her sister’s even messier problems. 

Turns out, Siobhan was not a nice woman. She was an ice queen to her husband, Andrew Martin, and Siobhan and her stepdaughter, Juliet hate each other. 

When Bridget is on the phone to her sponsor Malcolm she sees an unknown man watching her. 
 
When her “husband” returning from a two-week business trip he finds his wife thinner and nicer than he ever remembered and Bridget begins to realise that the marriage might not be perfect.

The next day she gets a phone call from Siobhan's best mate Gemma because she didn't turn up for their meeting. When they do meet up Gemma tells her that she thinks her husband is having an affair. I could kind of see where this was going.

That night Bridget and Andrew go to a fund raiser together and they seem to be getting on much better. However, Bridget then sees the same guy that was watching her earlier. When they are alone this mystery guy kisses her. It turns out to be Henry, Gemma's husband and yes Siobhan was having an affair with her best mate's husband. 

When they get home Andrew starts being cold to her again and she asks what is wrong, since they were getting on so well at the fund raiser. He 'reminded' her that it was all an act and it was her game and that he was just playing by her rules. She replies by saying that she wants to be nice for real and stop playing games. Andrew says that will be great but he doesn't believe it.

Now that she’s stepped into Siobhan’s shoes, Bridget can’t just walk away. So she tries to make things better. She makes nice with Andrew, ends the affair with Henry and lamely consoles Gemma by suggesting that Henry could be sleeping with their nanny. 

But then Agent Machado shows up looking for his runaway. Bridget thinks that she has been found but Agent Machado assumes that she is Siobhan and explains the situation with Bridget and says they are looking for her and she could be in danger. 

Next Bridget finds out Siobhan was pregnant and doesn't know which one could be the father and to make things worse Andrew over hears her on the phone to her doctor so he knows about the pregnancy and tells Henry and Gemma. Henry knows the baby is probably his and tells Siobhan (Bridget) to choose between him and Andrew, she chooses Andrew. 

While Bridget tries to get rid of the gun she stole from her former police bodyguard, Machado is busy meeting with Hampton police who have found her driver’s license and clothes in the bus station locker. Along with a letter from Siobhan. Now he knows that 'Siobhan' lied about seeing her sister.

Meanwhile Gemma’s busy uncovering—or so she thinks—the identity of her husband’s mistress. She leaves Siobhan a message asking her to meet her at the loft in an hour.

This brings us back, full circle, to that moment at the beginning of the show. We now know that the blonde cowering in the loft is Bridget, pretending to be Siobhan and like I said, somehow, we are hoping she somehow 'Buffy' kicks her attacker’s butt. 

“You have the wrong girl,” Bridget yells. Then she kicks him off her (yay go Buffy) and runs. He follows and tackles her. They crash through the newly erected wall where Bridget had hidden the gun.She grabs it. Shouts “I’m not Bridget,” He man lunges for her and Bridget shoots.

After he falls, Bridget searches his pocket and finds a picture of Siobhan (with Siobhan Martin actually written on it). Turns out her attacker wasn’t one of the mob boss’s men and it was Siobhan he was after all along. She is stunned.
Then a phone rings. From the view outside the window, we can tell it’s ringing in an apartment in Paris. Bridget’s supposedly dead sister picks up. We then here a man's voice saying “Siobhan, we have a problem,” 

 

And here would be the last EastEnders Duff Duff of the episode. 

Wow what a lot to cram into one episode, but it didn't get boring it was just one problem / mystery after another. Yes from seeing the trailers I knew that Siobhan wasn't really dead but it was still exciting. What's the rule for dead people on TV? If you don't see the body then they are not really dead. 

And so many reasons to watch the next episode: - 

What is Siobhan up too?
Will Bridget get found out?
What will she do about the pregnancy? 
Will Gemma find out who her husband is having the affair with. 

I had to watch the next episode straight away when I was watching it by myself a couple weeks ago and also last night when I watched it again with my partner we had to watch the next episode straight away. 

I think Ringer is becoming on of my favourite TV Shows already and looking forward to writing many more reviews.