US EditionSirens TV Review — Julianne Moore Plays a Beguiling Socialite in Netflix Comedy-Drama
- Netflix released the limited series Sirens on May 22, 2025, featuring sisters Devon and Simone confronting each other on a Cape Cod island.
- The series, adapted by Molly Smith Metzler from her 2011 play Elemeno Pea, explores Devon’s struggle to care for their father and find her estranged sister amid a controlling billionaire household.
- Devon, played by Meghann Fahy, travels 17 hours from Buffalo carrying an oversized edible arrangement to persuade Simone, played by Milly Alcock, to escape Michaela, their enigmatic billionaire boss played by Julianne Moore.
- Devon angrily calls Simone a “self-centered gutter-rat whore,” highlighting their festering wounds beneath composed appearances, while Moore’s Michaela says, "I take care of everything in my orb, big and small, prey and predator."
- Sirens combines dark farce and family drama with sharp performances and ends with a conventional soap opera finale that reflects on privilege and fractured sisterhood.
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‘Sirens’ Review: Meghann Fahy Brings the Substance to Soapy Netflix Limited Series
“Sirens,” the third beach-set mystery in which Meghann Fahy has appeared in less than three years, falls somewhere between the cleverness and audacity of the first, HBO’s “White Lotus” Season 2, and cheesiness of the second, “The Perfect Couple” — although that Netflix show is clearly this one’s spiritual cousin. But “Sirens,” a five-episode limited series adapted by Molly Smith Metzler from her 2011 play “Elemeno Pea,” is wholly distinct in its…
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