Sirens on Netflix

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Anonymous wrote:I loved it. Gorgeous scenery and home, acting was amazing, plot was interesting: actually no cult at all and the women were sort of like mermaids: men blamed them for their own wrecked lives bc they had been too alluring to resist, when really they only had themselves to blame. I really hated Peter, what a weak guy.

Ita. The men were awful.

Peter, serial cheater, replaces his wives with younger women. Sits around and smokes dope while his wife runs the household and the foundation. Blew off his kids for a decade.

Ethan, irresponsible, pompous, and lazy.

Bruce, a real life monster.

Jose, a fixer with no moral center.

Raymond, a liar and a cheat.

Morgan, something's just off with him, up to no good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I loved it. Gorgeous scenery and home, acting was amazing, plot was interesting: actually no cult at all and the women were sort of like mermaids: men blamed them for their own wrecked lives bc they had been too alluring to resist, when really they only had themselves to blame. I really hated Peter, what a weak guy.

Ita. The men were awful.

Morgan was great! All the men in the staff were great.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The whole time I was watching it I couldn't get over Simone's "uncanny" face. Reminded me about that thread in Teens and Tweens about the orthodontia that make little kids look weird. I saw it!

I've never heard of orthodontia face, but as soon as I saw her, I was like 'oh, I wonder if she's from Australia" because there's a certain look that Aussies have.

Yes! She does not look American at all. It made sense when I saw where she was from.

I thought she and especially her sister looked like every beautiful girl from the trailer parks in the midwest are I grew up in

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The whole time I was watching it I couldn't get over Simone's "uncanny" face. Reminded me about that thread in Teens and Tweens about the orthodontia that make little kids look weird. I saw it!

I've never heard of orthodontia face, but as soon as I saw her, I was like 'oh, I wonder if she's from Australia" because there's a certain look that Aussies have.

Agree- Toni Collette and Melissa George have this look, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I loved it. Gorgeous scenery and home, acting was amazing, plot was interesting: actually no cult at all and the women were sort of like mermaids: men blamed them for their own wrecked lives bc they had been too alluring to resist, when really they only had themselves to blame. I really hated Peter, what a weak guy.

Ita. The men were awful.

Peter, serial cheater, replaces his wives with younger women. Sits around and smokes dope while his wife runs the household and the foundation. Blew off his kids for a decade.

Ethan, irresponsible, pompous, and lazy.

Bruce, a real life monster.

Jose, a fixer with no moral center.

Raymond, a liar and a cheat.

Morgan, something's just off with him, up to no good.

Disagree with Morgan. He seemed like a good guy who was content living a pretty lucky life (he wasn’t wealthy but got to be captain the yacht).

Ray was a good guy. It felt like this was the end of the cheating and he was going to reform, just like Devon’s character was.

I don’t get what you mean about Jose. He was paid to do a job by Peter and that’s what he did. Kiki was not a child and she didn’t need him for anything that she couldn’t figure out her own. It was t his job to help her figure out where Peter was and she did it in her own anyway.

Devon broke the law and deserved to be delivered to the police. He was doing his job, nothing more nothing less.

[Anonymous]

I found this show cliched, and the sirens references (dialogue, scenario, dress, so on) were annoying and over the top.

[Anonymous]

This was Ok. Devon was insufferable and after finding out about her childhood who could blame Simone for refusing to drop her life to go relieve Devon? That request was ridiculous and tone deaf.

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I found Devon annoying, and all the characters would have been better off if she never went to look for Simone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I found Devon annoying, and all the characters would have been better off if she never went to look for Simone.

It's all because of the edible arrangement. I blame it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was Ok. Devon was insufferable and after finding out about her childhood who could blame Simone for refusing to drop her life to go relieve Devon? That request was ridiculous and tone deaf.

I completely disagree.

I thought that part was so real, but I grew up surrounded by that kind of working class families with abuse, trauma, foster care, teenage siblings acting as parents, and substance abuse, and have also watched the struggles that lower and working class families have when trying to deal with dementia and elder care. I also have sisters. I know dozens of variations of those sisters and their backstory. Those parts of the story were dead on perfect.

The island and cult lifestyle were obviously campy fun stereotypes, but they added to the fantasy life aspects and made the worlds such a contrast and the show more fun.

I feel like Devon and the ferry captain was just a step too far and did not add to the story at all. I am glad they fixed that part and gave her some depth.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anybody read the book? Are any of these women actual sirens in the book? Like creatures from the deep who sing and enchant people into doing their bidding?

Seems like this is just an accusations that the men throw when they want someone to blame for their actions.

I mean ... no. It's literary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I loved it. Gorgeous scenery and home, acting was amazing, plot was interesting: actually no cult at all and the women were sort of like mermaids: men blamed them for their own wrecked lives bc they had been too alluring to resist, when really they only had themselves to blame. I really hated Peter, what a weak guy.

Kiki was right - they all worked for him.

I’m the one who binged it immediately. What a refreshing revelation - the mermaids (Devon, in her scuba gear, swimming to try and rescue Simone) were a sailor’s savior; the siren, a sailor’s doom. All of it is a myth, if not a formalized, recognized iteration of Greek mythology. The tempting women just destroy the men, hey hey. The lobotomized chorus lip-syncing “W.A.P.” and explaining to Devon that their respective men came onto them and saved them from service careers were finessed touches - so out there that it is in its own way a finessed plot point.

Peter could afford with his salt of the earth roots from a thousand years ago be taken as ‘good’ by the staff, just a simple guy with chowdah and quahogs and a simple pour-over coffee, not a thrown-away smoothie or an eyelash window. It’s the wife, and the P.A., who are the monsters! So he’s totally free to say to his just-dumped wife, as if in an aside, hey, maybe I’ll have another baby…sorry you were infertile.

Again, this was WAY better than it had any right to be and for me, it is WAY better than any of Big Little Lies, better than White Lotus excepting parts of season 3 (Fahey was the best part of season 2 by far). I hope Fahey has an amazing career, I love her, and I love Julianne Moore for not freezing her face and taking a ‘fun’ role.

Garden variety misogyny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was Ok. Devon was insufferable and after finding out about her childhood who could blame Simone for refusing to drop her life to go relieve Devon? That request was ridiculous and tone deaf.

I disagree because I think the show did a good job of showing how fleeting power really is. I get that Simone wouldn’t want to just drop everything and leave with Devon, obviously agree with you on that. But I think what Devon was trying to point out this life was really not sustainable and super risky. Sure enough, in an instant, Simone was dropped on her ass with not even her phone or a dollar in her pocket.

Fortunately, she’s young and pretty and got the attention of the rich 65-year-old. But as Kiki story showed that’s a pretty precarious position. At best she pops out some kids and gets a decent prenup and he either dies or leaves her and she’s got some money.

At worse, though, it’s pretty clear Peter has all the cards here, and there’s no guarantee that 3, 7, 15 years from now she’s not out on her ass with nothing.

To pretend that staying there is going to lead some fairytale life is incredibly naïve and Devon was just able to see that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole time I was watching it I couldn't get over Simone's "uncanny" face. Reminded me about that thread in Teens and Tweens about the orthodontia that make little kids look weird. I saw it!

I've never heard of orthodontia face, but as soon as I saw her, I was like 'oh, I wonder if she's from Australia" because there's a certain look that Aussies have.

Yes! She does not look American at all. It made sense when I saw where she was from.

I thought she and especially her sister looked like every beautiful girl from the trailer parks in the midwest are I grew up in

Genotype is not phenotype.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I found this show cliched, and the sirens references (dialogue, scenario, dress, so on) were annoying and over the top.

Yeah, I assume the book is chick lit.