The badness of Ringer continues!
Oct. 12th, 2011 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessI'm having problems choosing between this show, with its Evil Twin and Terrible Sulky Novelist, and Terra Nova, which offers flying dinosaurs eating people, except not enough of them ("them" here meaning both "flying dinosaurs" and "eaten people"), as the most ridiculous new show of the season. I mean, on the one hand it's really difficult to top the flying dinosaurs. On the other hand, Ringer.
As usual, I'm a week behind on this, although since we do get the CW, this is a show I could watch live. After all, choosing to watch it on my computer means I must wait a week to miss important lessons like this:
1. Rich Evil Twins, even Rich Evil Twins With Something To Hide, never, ever, ever, never even THINK of taking, gasp, a bus or a train to the Hamptons. Which only makes sense, because why bother to go to the Hamptons if you're not going to do it in proper style with a luxury limo?
(Was anyone else kinda hoping that the Supposedly Good Twin would meet up with Rick Castle on vacation? Just me? Moving on then! But not after making the observation that this show makes Castle look surprisingly realistic and grounded! Which leads to another lesson: Ringer makes you say all sorts of things you never thought you would say.
2. Stock footage of the Hamptons, showing them in both the summer and early fall, can leave the audience even more confused about exactly what time of year it's supposed to be on this show. On the bright side, this does help to add confusion about the faked timeline of the very faked pregnancy.
3. On a related note, it is apparently harder than I thought to fake a miscarriage for a fake pregnancy, even on a show convinced that all you need to remove all traces of blood and DNA is household bleach, since we are still running this ludicrous storyline.
4. It's also surprisingly harder than I thought to distinguish between this show and the TJ Maxx ads running with it, odd since the girl in the TJ Maxx ads is less shallow, considerably more mature, and a better developed character than nearly everyone on this show.
5. And just when you think the clothes on this show can't get any more ridiculous or wrong, they DO! Along with the sunglasses. Actually I'm not at all sure why they didn't title this show: Ridiculous Sunglasses.
6. I can make it about a quarter way through this show before realizing that my earphones are plugged into the wrong outlet.
7. The FBI is able to monitor camera feeds at Hampton bus stations 24-7, solely to find a material witness for a case that already ended in a mistrial!
8. Evil Twins can be awfully pouty.
9. And speaking of pouty, this show needs to kill off the whiny novelist character, like, three episodes ago.
10. When you're the FBI, the very best thing you can do is put all of your material evidence back into a bus locker so your witness can go and pick it up.
11. And when you are on the run from the FBI, the very best thing you can do is go to a nice large beach in the evening, start a very visible fire, attempt to burn the evidence, all without checking to see if cameras are watching this.
12. The U.S. Coast Guard customarily responds to distress calls by….forwarding them to those marine experts of the FBI a few days or weeks later.
13. The best way to celebrate the birthday of your vegetarian wife is to include meat in your appetizers!
14. I repeat, this show needs to kill off the whiny novelist character. He could choke on the non-vegetarian appetizers!
15. Intimate conversations about secret affairs should always be conducted behind open doors, especially when both your spouses just happen to be in the same house!
16. Nobody who writes for this show has met an actual banker. (I think I said that last week but it's equally true this week.)
17. FBI agents can just walk into the houses of wealthy people for friendly chats about Evil Twins (or, well, in this case, Supposedly Good Twins) without, you know, calling first. Or a warrant.
18. This show desperately needs a DUM dum DUM!
As usual, I'm a week behind on this, although since we do get the CW, this is a show I could watch live. After all, choosing to watch it on my computer means I must wait a week to miss important lessons like this:
1. Rich Evil Twins, even Rich Evil Twins With Something To Hide, never, ever, ever, never even THINK of taking, gasp, a bus or a train to the Hamptons. Which only makes sense, because why bother to go to the Hamptons if you're not going to do it in proper style with a luxury limo?
(Was anyone else kinda hoping that the Supposedly Good Twin would meet up with Rick Castle on vacation? Just me? Moving on then! But not after making the observation that this show makes Castle look surprisingly realistic and grounded! Which leads to another lesson: Ringer makes you say all sorts of things you never thought you would say.
2. Stock footage of the Hamptons, showing them in both the summer and early fall, can leave the audience even more confused about exactly what time of year it's supposed to be on this show. On the bright side, this does help to add confusion about the faked timeline of the very faked pregnancy.
3. On a related note, it is apparently harder than I thought to fake a miscarriage for a fake pregnancy, even on a show convinced that all you need to remove all traces of blood and DNA is household bleach, since we are still running this ludicrous storyline.
4. It's also surprisingly harder than I thought to distinguish between this show and the TJ Maxx ads running with it, odd since the girl in the TJ Maxx ads is less shallow, considerably more mature, and a better developed character than nearly everyone on this show.
5. And just when you think the clothes on this show can't get any more ridiculous or wrong, they DO! Along with the sunglasses. Actually I'm not at all sure why they didn't title this show: Ridiculous Sunglasses.
6. I can make it about a quarter way through this show before realizing that my earphones are plugged into the wrong outlet.
7. The FBI is able to monitor camera feeds at Hampton bus stations 24-7, solely to find a material witness for a case that already ended in a mistrial!
8. Evil Twins can be awfully pouty.
9. And speaking of pouty, this show needs to kill off the whiny novelist character, like, three episodes ago.
10. When you're the FBI, the very best thing you can do is put all of your material evidence back into a bus locker so your witness can go and pick it up.
11. And when you are on the run from the FBI, the very best thing you can do is go to a nice large beach in the evening, start a very visible fire, attempt to burn the evidence, all without checking to see if cameras are watching this.
12. The U.S. Coast Guard customarily responds to distress calls by….forwarding them to those marine experts of the FBI a few days or weeks later.
13. The best way to celebrate the birthday of your vegetarian wife is to include meat in your appetizers!
14. I repeat, this show needs to kill off the whiny novelist character. He could choke on the non-vegetarian appetizers!
15. Intimate conversations about secret affairs should always be conducted behind open doors, especially when both your spouses just happen to be in the same house!
16. Nobody who writes for this show has met an actual banker. (I think I said that last week but it's equally true this week.)
17. FBI agents can just walk into the houses of wealthy people for friendly chats about Evil Twins (or, well, in this case, Supposedly Good Twins) without, you know, calling first. Or a warrant.
18. This show desperately needs a DUM dum DUM!
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Date: 2011-10-12 06:39 pm (UTC)Things do actually start happening in the episode following this one, which is a nice change, but the things are...
....
Well. Theyu are things that happen.
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Date: 2011-10-12 08:44 pm (UTC)Oh, right. I forgot what show I was thinking of for a moment. But as long as the show makes me laugh this hard, though, I'm in. I do hope that U.S. Coast Guard is considering a lawsuit, though.