16 photos in galleryWe can’t let Sarah Michelle Gellar creep back onto network TV — in a soapy dual-role as a girl impersonating her presumed-dead twin, who is in fact alive and crabby — without a thorough examination of her wardrobe. Bridget is a po’ ex-junkie; Siobhan is a hoity-toity socialite with a secret pregnancy, a lover, a hated drug-addled stepdaughter, and a stick lodged someplace unpleasant. But because this show was originally for CBS and not The CW, her wardrobe is kind of… a CBS-ified CW socialite, rather than, you know, Blair Waldorf. Although looking at this first shot of Siobhan, it occurs to me that Blair Waldorf would very much like to be this person when she grows up, possibly right down to the death-faking and poorly green-screened motorboat and mystery fetus. So: Come for the dark glasses, stay for the giant red bag and the sci-fi ponytail and the one-sleeved gold-draped black thing. Tempted? Then INDULGE. These are just from the first two episodes. I’m sure there will be more fugs to come. Or at least more crazy hair.
Fug The Show: Ringer, Eps 1 and 2
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Thank you for this. I didn’t know this show was originally for CBS, and that explains SO MUCH.
Yes, Thank You! I love SMG and this show really needs to find CW sensibility pronto. Hair Wars! Stargate pit decoration!
I am actually watching this show right now!!! I love her outfit when she was in a Bar with a guy, who wanted to order a drink.
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You had me at Ioan Gruffudd. It’s always a good time for a little Welshcake!
Ugh, the show’s complete lack of humor is why I had to stop watching. Also, I do love SMG but I don’t think she’s pulling the whole twin thing off. It’s like the ONLY difference between the two of them is their clothing. I never get any sense of “I’m a former stripper/drug addict” vs. “I’m a wealthy socialite!” from either of these characters. It all falls flat.
Do I see Richard Alpert standing next to Poor Twin in her ruling-an-alien-universe get-up? Please, please, please say yes.
I may have to watch this now, if only for the bad wardrobe and dreamy Ioan Gruffudd.
SMG as Buffy was able to pull off slaying demons in outfits such as a gold halter top and kicky capris, so that maidenform vengeance and Stargate ensemble don’t seem to be too much of a stretch.
Oy. I really want to love this show. But they make it so hard….
Seriously, the only fancy dresses on site are all SACK-like stuff? Hello, you have a great body – show it off!
if those white pants can make SMG look fat, there is absolutely no f’n hope for the rest of us. She is awesome…hope they can make this show work!
Sheri C, yup, that’s the same guy. I love Nestor Carbonell. I never watched him on Lost, but I’ve loved him since his Suddenly Susan days. But he will be forever known to me as Batmanuel from The Tick (which just makes me laugh harder now that he’s the mayor in the Batman reboot movies).
And I’m kind of loving Ringer. It’s totally ridiculous, but between SMG’s once-per-episode crazy outfits, Ioan Gruffud (yay!), and Batmanuel, it’s fluffy fun.
I’m now dying for a suitable candidate to wander by so that I can swan up to him and murmur, “Dear man, let my pelvis be your lighthouse!”
That is all.
*GASP*
Ioan get to speak with his proper voice??!?? I swoon….
(I don’t really have much opportunity to watch TV, but I may have to make it happen for him. Yummmmm)
Hmmm, sort of think that Blair Waldorf already HAS a mystery pregnancy. But I was impressed with the dress they put on Briget. I was sort of hoping to see that fug or fabbed here today.
I’m enjoying this show and really didn’t think I would, but you’re right, it needs to enjoy itself. I mean, good and bad twins, with a psycho after one twin and the other leading a double (PREGNANT) life after a fake suicide that her twin didn’t tell anyone about but just assumed her identity instead (as you do). So now Siobhan is maybe trying to get rid of that twin so as to have a convincing death for herself? Or just to get her back for something to do a little boy? Did the junkie twin become a junkie because she did something that caused the death of the rich twin’s son?? Hm. Maybe they could stand to make it a LITTLE less confusing??
LOVING Ioan Gruffudd and the dreamy accent, though. And Nestor Carbonell, who I also remember from Suddenly Susan, back in the long, long ago.
I think SMG gave an interview that said she was in a scene with Nestor Carbonell and got lost in his eyelashes, or something. Heh.
This show cracks me up. My favorite part was when the trunk that held the dead body RANG at Siobhan’s party and she had to answer it! Cheesetastic!
Most of this wardrobe is 90% better than most of her Buffy outfits. (But the twin thing is giving me horrible series 7 The First flashbacks.)
The red sack formal dress totally made think SMG is pregnant.
“…subtle as a disco ball on a catapult.” Love it and let’s boogie!
Of course she should have worn the red sack to clean up the dead body, not white. But shouldn’t one of the twins have an eye patch?
I am feeling the sudden urge to watch this show. I like SMG, and Batmanuel is a hero for our time, but Ioan Gruffudd’s real accent? I will be trying to make out with the TV every time he’s on.
Ringer started out badly, totally in love with its serious self but it does seem to be getting somewhat better. A little infusion of humor would really make this show fun.
I thought is was cool that Sara Michelle was finally coming back to tv, but I decided to watch the show because of Ioan Gruffudd. Holy Man, he’s hot! And thank for pointing out the hideousness of that ponytail. I could stop laughing when I saw it!
When me and boycreature watched the pilot I got more and more excited about what they’d put her head in. At one point I announced: “This is like hair PORN!”
BTW Cynthia Bergstrom who did the clothing on Buffy, is doing the wardrobe on Ringer since episode 2.
Frankly, I’m just happy to see Kristoffer Polaha back on TV. Yum!
Ohhh, it isn’t Ioan Gruffudd’s real accent. He’s Welsh, on Ringer they let him pretend to be English. Better than nothing, but I was so hoping it would be his real real accent.
Still he’s smoking hot, and this show is hilarious. Awesome.
I almost gave up on this show and it was heartbreaking due to my Buffy allegiance. And then the STARGATE DRESS walked in and I was saved. LOL!
You know, Bette Davis in DEAD RINGER – ahem – at least got to SHOVE her sister into a chair. So perhaps once the TWINS re-unite, it will get funny. Sometimes they even talk alike, you could lose your mind! Oh and LOVED the Loretta Tortelli hair. BRING IT.
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If you look at her wardrobe on Buffy, it frequently featured white pieces – it actually looked good on her (at least on camera).
However, there is no excuse for the white they’re employing here. SMG is a very pretty girl with acres of TV behind her. How hard is it to look at past outfits to see what colors and cuts look good on her on camera?
I’m really trying to like this show. I think you’re right about the sense of humor. And did you see what Siobhan was wearing in last night’s episode at the bar – the sequined jacket? My 90 something year old grandmother had a very similar one she wore for fancy dress.
I’m just glad the third episode was decent after the godawful first two. Bridget/Siobhan’s clothes are definitely the highlight of the show.
Does anyone else think this show is totally the grown-ups version of the Lying Game? Plot-wise I mean, it’s pretty similar!
@ bry: I agree and I love them both! Both Alexandra Chando and Sarah Michelle Gellar are very believable playing twins!
The regular clothes that Bridget wears as Siobhan don’t bother me, but those dresses are bad! And, I’m all for crazy hair, but I hate fake ponytails! Also, I think that for a woman who’s my same age, SMG looks AMAZING!!!
Seriously, who makes up these story lines?
JJ: Loretta Tortelli hair! Ahahahaha! Let’s be thankful there’s no Loretta Tortelli voice, though.
Nestor Carbonell without his Suddenly Susan accent seems odd to me. Never saw him on Lost.
Aww, you forgot the outfit Siobhan wears at the end of the pilot, looking all sleek and evil, that was pretty!
But I have to disagree about the lack of humour/campiness in the show: I honestly think they’re going for a SERIOUS show, and yes, they’re not exactly delivering at the moment, but they aren’t going for soap opera campy fun, it’s more thriller/suspense/manipulation everywhere and “twists” looming in the future…
I’m willing to wait and see how it goes, solely for SMG. Without her, there would already be talks of cancellation.
I stopped thinking when you said STARGATE. BEST SHOW EVERRRRRR
the thing i took from this was that you answered my question on whether Ioan would get to use his real accent. i literally whisper-yelled “Oh My God” at my computer upon reading that comment.
oh, boo.. after reading Rosie’s comment, i take it all back. making us watch him do an english accent instead of letting him use his sexy welsh accent is like making us eating lobster without butter. still good, but it could be oh, so better. i am disappoint, show execs.
WHY wasn’t there a fug the fromage for this show?!