Double Take
Why I love Ringer:
- The plot has so many twists and turns that you barely recover from a bad case of whiplash by the time the next episode airs.
- It's managed to surprise me, whereas with most shows, I guess what's gonna happen next before the writers do. :-P
- Bridget is an ex-stripper drug addict, who's on the run from an organized crime lord, got her nephew killed, steals her sister's identity, and bangs her brother-in-law--and she's the GOOD twin!
- Siobhan is nicknamed "Shiv" (slang for a makeshift knife usually found in prisons), a moniker I find fitting since she's a back-stabbing, diabolical fiend.
- In a dream sequence, Siobhan wonders why Andrew loves Bridget when he didn't love her.
Siobhan: What do you have that I don't?
Bridget: Um...a soul?* - Sarah Michelle Gellar kept calling it "Ring-ger" in the promos, but eventually started pronouncing only one "g", presumably having gotten my telepathic signals that two "g's" was annoying the crap outta me.
- It's resurrected the over-the-top, soap-opera-iness of the prime-time dramas of my childhood, like Falcon Crest, Dynasty, and Dallas.
- The costumers take great pains to dress SMG in the finest couture, but she's so short that she inevitably winds up looking like she's been playing in mommy's closet.
- After double-crossing Mr. Carpenter, Catherine leaves him a sticky note with a post script that says, "You're an idiot!"
- Andrew wears suspenders.
- There's not a single character who hasn't lied, cheated, stolen, manipulated, and/or committed murder.
- It's decadently ridiculous, and I eat that shit up like double chocolate cake. :-P
*Okay, she didn't really say that, but she would have if I'd written the script.