It's great to have Sarah Michelle Gellar back on TV in Ringer - but oh, how I miss Buffy
I miss Buffy. God, I miss Buffy, the SoCal colossus who once bestrode the pop cultural landscape with a 'tude as fierce as her wardrobe. The loss of Joss Whedon's vampiric masterpiece is only felt the more keenly with Sarah Michelle Gellar's return to the small screen, after an eight year hiatus, with Ringer (Sky Living) ? a horror of quite a different order.
It is a show teetering on the very highest of high-concept wires. SMG ? her strange little teardrop of a face barely changed in the years since we best knew her ? plays twins: bad girl Bridget, a recovering addict with slightly bad hair (aka SkankBuffy), and good, Grace Kellyish Siobhan (aka ChignonBuffy).
Called as a murder witness, SkankBuffy flees to her sister rather than testify. They spend a lot of time looking at each other in mirrors, standing before self-portraits and staying at the Double (DOUBLE!) Nickel motel, in case we forget they are twins. TWINS! When ChignonBuffy kills herself, SkankBuffy assumes her identity for protection. Personally, I'd turn myself in rather than have to master such a complicated hairdo in my 30s ? they should be peaceful years ? but Skanky is made of sterner stuff. This is fortunate, as her sister's life turns out to be a knotty mass of affairs, subterfuges and mysteries.
It is also peopled with characters who say things like: "Your life seems perfect!" and: "I felt like I didn't have a choice!" between long scenes suffused with portentous music, presumably to drown out the clattering noise of a thousand monkeys bashing out the next portion of script on their abused typewriters. The woman herself is quite well and living secretly near an equally good hairdresser in Paris. Not so good girl after all! Dum-dum-DAAAHHH!
It's a two-for-one part that is catnip to an actor and the sheer plottiness of it hooks the viewer, despite it being shallower than a twin's reflection. But she and we are surely all there for want of anything better.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/oct/03/sarah-michelle-gellar-ringer-buffy
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