Buffy’s back on TV
Not as Buffy, but as twins in Ringer, which sounds Hitchcockian. We’re glad she pointed out the ludicrousness of doing a Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie without Joss Whedon.
Never an ill word will be dragged from me against Sarah Michelle Gellar, the star of the new CW series Ringer, which debuted last week but which I only saw last night on iTunes, because I have no TV where I am, my idea of “roughing it.”
Anything SMG does post-Buffy will seem anticlimactic and it can’t be said that she’s expanded her acting range in the meantime, or carved deeper channels of implication and filigreed her facial expressions. And yet it doesn’t matter. As an actor Gellar is a compelling anomaly. She has a somewhat toneless voice that tips up at the end of sentences and rhetorical questions to denote bittersweet sarcasm, her movements are mostly shoulder-propelled, and her raccoon eye makeup seems like an homage to Lisa Marie Presley–Gellar ought to have all the presence of a sad emoticon on the screen, a flat drip.
And yet she’s never less then compelling and sympathetic, and believable in everything her characters do–there’s a vulnerable note of pathos in SMG that always rings true, pun perhaps intended. It doesn’t hurt that she wears clothes beautifully, her wardrobe as an ice-queen socialite the perfect marriage of money and monastic hauteur…
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September 22nd, 2011 at 11:03
She deserved an Emmy for Buffy. Hope this gets her one. On unrelated sad news, did you know that R.E.M. have disbanded? See here: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/r-e-m-break-up-after-three-decades-20110921
September 22nd, 2011 at 15:39
“Anything SMG does post-Buffy will seem anticlimactic and it can’t be said that she’s expanded her acting range in the meantime, or carved deeper channels of implication and filigreed her facial expressions.”
I still think she was brilliant in Cruel Intentions. :) #sebastian
September 22nd, 2011 at 19:13
Hi Jessica. Off-topic but I don’t know how else to contact you.
The Guardian is giving away seven John Le Carre audiobooks as free downloads. They’re posting one book per day and it started Sep 17 (each available for download for only six days from posting date). The first post was with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Fyi, in case you and your readers are interested.
Link here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/john-le-carre-free-audiobooks
September 22nd, 2011 at 20:01
I’ve seen snippets of this on E! Grabe, after 48 years, Sarah’s back in the boob tube.
Our household helper back in the day would call me from my room when Buffy was on, ” Oy Babols, Bapee da bampayr sleyer na!!!”
Panalo!