Written by Gema Luna, Reporter

Sarah Michelle Gellar, the “Queen of the Primetime Teen Drama”, is back with a whole new identity crisis. Ringer, which is produced by Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder from Supernatural, is about twin sisters, Bridget and Siobhan, who are both on the run from their own lives.

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Bridget is an ex-stripper and ex-junkie who is on the run from a mobster and calls her estranged sister (and Manhattan Elitist) Siobhan. However, little does Bridget know that Siobhan’s perfect life is everything but that. Siobhan needs to escape her life as well and who better to replace her than her twin sister (WHAT A TWIST!). They meet in the Hamptons and Siobhan fakes her own death.  Bridgette assumes Siobhan’s life and gets tangled in the web of lies that she says and the ones Siobhan had.

Besides Gellar’s dual role, the cast has some known names. Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four) plays Siobhan’s at odds husband Andrew Martin. Nestor Carbonell (Lost) plays the FBI agent in charge of keeping Bridgette out of the mobster’s reach and Kristoffer Polaha (Life Unexpected) as Siobhan’s best friend’s husband and lover.

This noir-esque drama’s pilot was extremely predictable at times, while finding ways to be utterly confusing.. The creative team has included too much information into an hour, and as a result, the storyline suffers. The drama of Ringer is to intense for the CW, and not enough for ABC. It felt like what would happen if Gossip Girl grew up spineless, but  with even less meaningful drama (not that Gossip Girl is meaningful…but you know what I mean).

I hope that the pilot episode isn’t the bar for standards that the series will be holding itself to, because it sure isn’t the quality that we have come to expect for a project with Gellar attached.

ComicsOnline gives Ringer- “Pilot” a 3 out of 5 back stabbings.

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