00:00The siren story is about three women,
00:03and they're on an island.
00:04They're very, very beautiful.
00:05They're seductresses.
00:06And they use their song to make the sailors who
00:10are passing by in ships crash their boats and die.
00:12It's a little monstrous, actually.
00:14The dark current is you.
00:17She ruined me.
00:21Even when you think of the reason for the mythology,
00:23this idea that men were blaming shipwrecks
00:27on these mythological figures, these women
00:29that are singing, I think it's sort of interesting.
00:31So it's like, wait, you crashed the boat,
00:34but you said that a minor goddess made you do it?
00:37It is a great question because we don't know.
00:39We only ever hear the sirens described by the men.
00:41We never hear their point of view,
00:43that maybe their song is actually a song of pain,
00:46that maybe they're incredibly lonely and misunderstood,
00:48that maybe there's a whole other side to this story
00:51of why these three women are doing what they're doing.
00:53Devon is somebody who has been a caretaker
00:57for a lot of her life.
00:58She had to give up a lot of personal pursuits
01:00to take care of her younger sister.
01:02Simone, I just traveled 17 hours to see you.
01:07Well, I don't know, you should have called first
01:08because I don't have time for you.
01:10I don't, I don't have time for you today.
01:12Who are you?
01:13You're dressed like a doily.
01:16Simone goes through a very big journey throughout the show.
01:21As an audience, we see her trauma.
01:22It really reels in that question of like, who is your family?
01:25And what do you owe a family that's hurt you?
01:28Okay, don't touch anything.
01:31Don't talk to anyone.
01:33Don't sit on the furniture and don't touch the linens.
01:38I'll just be right here festering and decomposing.
01:40Don't you dare sit on my couch.
01:42One cheek, two cheek.
01:44Makayla and the world around her is one of magnetism.
01:49Everyone in the show is pulled towards her.
01:51She created her own universe and her own rules,
01:53and she's made herself the queen of it all.
01:56And this power that she has, that she pulls the community around her.
02:00She gets people excited about what she's excited about.
02:02Let's go save some wildlife, bitches.
02:07The scene in the series that is very ethereal,
02:10and the audience isn't quite sure, like, is this even really happening?
02:13There's more Devon here or something, and she thinks it's singing,
02:16and she comes up, and she's sort of in this trance.
02:18She's being sirened by Julie's character.
02:21It's written beautifully, and it's one woman drawing something out of another woman,
02:28you know, really, really saying to her, like, I see you, how special you are.
02:36I can help you.
02:40All three of these women are incredibly powerful, but also incredibly wounded.
02:45All have experienced profound mother loss.
02:48All seem to be in somewhat complicated relationships with men,
02:53all of whom have to take responsibility for things that maybe the men are responsible for.
02:59You have systematically discouraged me from knowing my own children.
03:05Oh my god, this again?
03:07You ruined your relationship with your children.
03:10You pursued me.
03:12You left Jocelyn.
03:13You let them demonize me.
03:15For the Greek mythology nerds,
03:16if you watch carefully mermaid images show up,
03:19like, one of my favorites is tiles around the fireplace in Simone's room.
03:23Also, things are in threes.
03:25You know, the sirens come in threes, but the sculptures are in a set of three outside.
03:29There's just a trio of different details around the house.
03:32And then there's the characters of the Fates,
03:34who are Michaela's really good friends.
03:36The three of them are dressed exactly the same,
03:38and they're often saying things that are predicting the future.
03:41I think in the end, all three women are sirens.
03:46The manifestation of it is very different in all three of them, but at the core,
03:51they're actually a lot more similar than any of them are willing to admit.
04:00That's why,
04:22so
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