SIRENS – Review by Susan Granger
Show creator/runner Molly Smith Metzler must have been familiar with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s description of the rich because it matches hers in in Netflix’s new, five-part miniseries Sirens, alluding to Greek mythology in which sea monsters/mermaids lured sailors to their death. Her story begins with wealthy ethereal socialite Michaela “Kiki” Kell (Julianne Moore) standing on the edge of a cliff, releasing a falcon into freedom. At the same time, Devon DeWitt (Meghann Fahy) is getting out of jail in Buffalo, New York. Devon is exhausted caring for her widower father Bruce (Bill Camp) who suffers from dementia. So she hops a ferry to an unnamed sanctuary off the coast of Rhode Island and makes her way to the palatial clapboard beachfront estate known as Cliff House where her estranged younger sister Simone (Milly Alcock) – having survived a traumatic childhood – now works as Kiki’s personal assistant.
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