Go behind the scenes of Sirens, Netflix’s bold new dark comedy series from creator Molly Smith Metzler. In this inside look, the cast and creators—including Julianne Moore, Meghann Fahy, and Milly Alcock—reveal how they brought this explosive weekend to life, diving into the show’s themes of power, class, and complicated sisterhood. From the lush beach estate setting to the razor-sharp dialogue, see how Sirens mixes biting humor with unsettling truths. Streaming May 22, only on Netflix.
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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