"The Ringer" airs Tuesdays on the CW (courtesy of the CW)

The story picks up right where it left off last week, with a lot of questions and very few answers. As Bridget (Sarah Michelle Gellar) tries to figure out how to get rid of the body of the assassin who she shot in self-defense in her loft, Siobhan’s husband Andrew (Ioan Gruffudd) decides to throw his business party in the very same location.

With no time to lose, Bridget scrambles to hide the evidence of the body. At the same time, she begins to formulate her escape back to Wyoming. However, as she tries to put her old life back, she is continuously pulled into her new life, assuming the identity of her twin, Siobhan.

The longer she poses as Siobhan, the more she begins to get to know the cast of characters in her new life. Slowly but surely, she begins to break down barriers between her estranged husband and her step daughter, Juliet (Zoey Deutch).

Juliet is an out of control partier who reminds Bridget of herself before she got clean and sober. The audience is treated to its first set of flashbacks as Bridget deals with Juliet’s problems and realizes how similar they are to what her own demons once were.

The episode reaches its climax at Andrew's party in the loft. Desperate and out of time, Bridget stuffed the dead man in a trunk before the start of the party. Just when she thinks she is going to make it through the night undetected, the dead man’s cell phone goes off. For a heartbeat, as the party attendees look around to see whose cell phone is going off, no one knows what is going to happen. Then Bridget rushes to the trunk, covertly fishes out the cell phone and turns it off, before anyone can see what was in the trunk, attributung the phone to something left behind by a worker.

Ominously, at the end of the episode, Bridget goes back to the loft to deal with the body and discovers that the trunk is empty. All evidence of the dead man is gone. As Bridget puzzles over taht, the scene is cut to reveal the real Siobhan, living in Paris. Upon learning what her sister is up to in New York she says, “She’s going to run everything.”

The second episode attempts to show that Bridget is now literally carrying baggage. There is no clean escape for her anymore. Despite her best efforts to abandon her sister’s world and return to her old life this week, she is now stuck carrying around a trunk in a literal sense. Until she is able to sort out the baggage, she is stuck in this new world she has created for herself, for better or for worse.

“Ringer” has a lot of backstory, which is not necessarily a bad thing and will lead to some interesting plot arches down the road. However, right now it feels like it is getting ahead of itself. This episode felt rushed and it expected viewers to go along with it, although the audience still does not understand what is actually going on.

It would help if we got to know the characters more. As a new show, it is important for the audience to feel invested in the characters and thus far, there is no stand out favorite. While Gellar does her best to deliver, it is not enough to carry the show.

Overall, while “Ringer” holds the promise of being a novel new television series, currently it seems to be relying more on delivering cheap jokes and showcasing the socialite lifestyle then actually breaking any new ground.   Last week, the CW reported that it had its best ratings in two years for the time slot given to "The Ringer’s" premier. It will be interesting to see what the statistics show for this week’s episode.

You can catch "The Ringer" on the CW, Tuesdays at 9/8 central.

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