22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘Sirens' Review: An Island's Money and Mystery on Netflix
From 'Game of Thrones' to 'Family Guy,' the problematic sibling is a prime mover of plotlines, and few are a bigger source of headaches than the delinquent Devon DeWitt of 'Sirens.' An alcoholic with many miles on her drink-o-meter, she claims to be sober, steals opioids out of random medicine chests and has lived a lifestyle of the down, out and dissipated. Yet she looks like actress Meghann Fahy and turns out to be the smartest person in the room.
So abandon all hope of plausibility, ye who enter this five-episode series, though the experience is hardly hellish: You can almost hear the wind chimes and pan flutes and feel the sea mist caressing Cliff House, the bigger-than-Rhode-Island-size manor reigned over by Michaela Kell (an unnervingly pale and brittle Julianne Moore), a goddess in her own mind. It is here, maybe on Nantucket, that Devon has come to fetch her long-estranged sister, Simone (Milly Alcock, 'House of the Dragon'), who has risen from their lowly shared station in life to become Michaela's executive assistant, gofer, companion and—maybe—friend. Devon doesn't trust the woman. Should we?
