Sirens (2025) (TV Program)

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    ‘Sirens’ Is a Poppy Summer Getaway

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    The new Netflix series, starring Meghann Fahy, Milly Alcock and Julianne Moore, isn’t breaking any boundaries, but it is often entertaining.“Sirens,” a five-part mini-series on Netflix, brims with trendy TV elements, a mythology-tinged beach drama with a weepy trauma plot and a poppy attention to cult sagas. It’s more summer fling than marriage material, but who doesn’t like to get away?Meghann Fahy stars as the down-and-out Devon, who dresses in black, smokes cigarettes, has casual sexual encounters and tries to care for her ailing father with dementia in Buffalo. Milly Alcock is Simone, her little sister, a live-in assistant on Martha’s Vineyard whose outfits seem ripped from a Lilly Pulitzer lookbook. Devon arrives, unbidden, because she needs help, but she soon becomes worried that Simone is in a cult led by her employer, Kiki (Julianne Moore), an ethereal, overwhelming ex-lawyer married to a frustrated billionaire (Kevin Bacon).“Sirens” is “White Lotus”-adjacent, thanks in part to its “rich people: they are actually very sad sometimes” elements and especially thanks to Fahy, its lead and a “White Lotus” alumna. It shares an “Upstairs, Downstairs” behind-the-scenes energy and a fascination with birds with “The Residence.” As in the dopey yet engrossing thriller “Paradise,” there is something unsettling and amiss about the luxury here. Every mysterious streaming drama needs a parade of famous faces, and “Sirens” gives us Moore, Bacon and Glenn Howerton. And as with dozens of other poor-little-rich-folks series, primo real estate is the backbone of the show.Those are relatively chichi shows to resemble, but “Sirens” is perhaps more in keeping with trends from the other end of the prestige spectrum: It often feels like a Hallmark Channel movie.“Sirens” swims from campy to grounded and back, feeling sometimes refreshingly unpredictable and other times confusingly disjointed. When the oddities amplify each other, the show takes on an eerie, alluring dreaminess. But then the show backs away from its boldest ideas, as if it had this bolder, grander plan and then just said, “Eh, never mind.”The draw here is the goofy luminosity of it all and the commitment of the performances. It is also a show that could be told entirely through hair: Each perfect ponytail is an instant character biography; frizz stands in for personal failure; face-framing waves that crest right at the cheekbone might as well be a halo; and a stick-straight blowout cuts deeper than a knife in the back. More

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      ‘Sirens,’ Plus 7 Things to Watch on TV this Week

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      A mini series starring Meghann Fahy comes to Netflix. Two HBO shows wrap up their seasons.Between streaming and cable, there is a seemingly endless variety of things to watch. Here is a selection of TV shows and specials that are airing or streaming this week, May 19-25. Details and times are subject to change.Something here isn’t right …If we know one thing about Meghann Fahy, it’s that she’s good at playing characters who go to stunning locations where the interpersonal vibes are … bad (see: “The Perfect Couple” and “The White Lotus”). And that is exactly the setup of the new mini-series “Sirens.” Fahy plays Devon, whose billionaire boss is developing a too-close relationship with her sister, and she heads to a seaside estate where to suss out the situation. Off-putting energy and gorgeous locations, what could be better? Streaming Thursday on Netflix.And if we know anything about Nicole Kidman, it’s that she loves to put on a chic wig and act as a cold, slightly unagreeable but somehow charming matriarch or leader (see: “The Undoing,” “Big Little Lies,” and also “The Perfect Couple”). And that is the setting for “Nine Perfect Strangers,” which is coming back for its second season. Masha (Kidman), the director of a resort in the Austrian Alps, hosts a 10-day retreat where things go, well, not exactly as planned because participants are actually signing up for psychedelic therapy. Henry Golding, Annie Murphy and Christine Baranski are joining the cast this season. Streaming Tuesday on Hulu.Nicole Kidman in “Nine Perfect Strangers.”Reiner Bajo/DisneyThough fans of the video game knew the brutal death in store for the second season of the series “The Last of Us,” it still created waves with viewers. Now the season is wrapping up with characters forging ahead across post-outbreak America to try to avenge that death. Don’t get your hopes up for a quick Season 3 release, though; one of the show’s stars Isabela Merced said that they don’t plan to begin to filming until 2026. Streaming Sunday at 9 p.m. on HBO and Max.Nathan Fielder’s expertise is making viewers uncomfortable. And in Season 2 of his series “The Rehearsal,” he has continued to succeed in doing just that. In the show, Fielder directs staged scenarios with the help of construction crews and willing talent. If you’ve seen “The Office” episode “Scott’s Tots,” this show tends to elicit that same type of pearl-clutching cringe. And sometimes Fielder’s bits seemingly goes too far — the musician Lana Love told Variety she spent $10,000 (travel, lodging, hair and makeup) to audition for a new singing competition show “Wings of Voice,” which ended up being just a part of Fielder’s ruse. (Neither representatives HBO or Fielder responded to Variety’s request for comment.) The second season is wrapping up this week. Sunday at 10:30 p.m. on HBO and streaming on Max.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      In ‘Sirens,’ Meghann Fahy Sounds the Alarm

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      “People underestimate melon,” the actress Meghann Fahy said. ”I don’t think they give it a chance.”Fahy was speaking on a drizzly morning in April, two weeks before her 35th birthday, in an Edible Arrangements outlet on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. In the first episode of “Sirens,” a Netflix limited series, Fahey’s character receives an arrangement, the deluxe Party Dipped Fruit Delight, which weighs as much as a toddler.“I dragged that arrangement around for weeks,” Fahy said. Now Fahy had come to make her own, a gesture that felt a little like homage, a little like revenge.With some help from the store’s owner, she set about crafting a more modest assemblage. She combined cut pineapple and melon balls to form daisies, then speared honeydew and cantaloupe onto plastic skewers above a kale base. “And that’s how she stabbed herself,” she said, narrating the activity. “Sad.”Meghann Fahy stars in “Sirens” as a protective sister with self-destructive tendencies and, in early scenes, an enormous fruit basket.Macall Polay/NetflixFahy knows what it’s like to be underestimated. She performed on Broadway as a teen in 2009 and then barely worked until 2016, when she landed a role on the go-getting Freeform show “The Bold Type,” the rare series that makes a career in journalism look fun. She didn’t properly break out until 2022, in an Emmy-nominated turn in the second season of HBO’s “The White Lotus.”This year, she has her first proper leads, as an imperiled single mother in the date-night thriller “Drop,” which premiered last month, and as a class-struggle chaos agent in “Sirens.” Created by Molly Smith Metzler (“Maid”), the series premieres on May 22.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More