Sirens on Netflix: Do heroines end happy? Explanations on the end of the number 1 series

Somewhere between White Lotus and a perfect couple, the Sirens mini-series is the number 1 fiction of the moment on Netfix. This television adaptation of the “Elemeno Pea” play from 2011 is signed Molly Smith Metzler, to whom we owe Maid, another success of the platform.

Sirens tells the story of Devon (Meghann Fahy), a young lost but funny and resilient woman who has taken care of her father suffering from dementia since the death of his mother. When she no longer has any news from her sister Simone (Milly Alcock), who does not answer an emergency call, Devon decides to look for her.

She finds Simone on the sumptuous island domain of Kells. She works there as a assistant for the enigmatic worldly Michaela Kell (Julianne Moore). This philanthropist and activist for the animal cause which directs the high island society is the wife of the billionaire Peter Kell (Kevin Bacon).

Worried about his sister, Devon will investigate Michaela, his practices and his past. While the young woman is convinced that Simone's owner is the biggest problem, she finally realizes that the enemy is the one who has divided all these women, who is none other than Peter, Michaela's husband.

How does “Sirens” end?

Apparently more sympathetic, warm, understanding and healthy than Michaela, Peter behaves like an ally and support for Simone, Devon, but also all the staff working for the couple.

Michaela is portrayed as an authoritarian, cold, hypocritical and malicious eccentric. But at the end of the mini-series, Peter reveals his true face. He seduces Simone and completely rejects Michaela by making him understand that she did not “fill his wife work” by giving her children and having interposed between his children with a previous marriage and him (when he could very well have taken care of them).

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Peter destroys his marriage to Michaela and the lamp of the island on which they lived. It should not be forgotten that it is Peter who holds all the riches. It is now Simone who takes the place of Michaela, while Michaela and Devon leave the island hoping that Simone will get out of it, although she is now in Peter's claws.

“The alarm clock is so brutal at the end”explains Molly Smith Metzler to Tudum,, “”[Cette scène] is a little nod to Greek mythology, where the value of a woman is strongly weighted by her maternity … then, in this world where beauty is a currency, where marriage is a currency, where we all work to Peter, within this structure, the use of Michaela is not assured. “

Peter is the real antagonist of “Sirens” and not the “sirens”

So that the public can bite their fingers at the end of not having on detecting the true nature of Peter or having fallen into the cliché of the big bad guy in female relationships, director Nicole Kassell led Kevin Bacon so as to deceive the world.

When she directed him in the first episodes, he had to play accordingly. “He magnificently interpreted Peter”she believes, “He is just a man who, by his privileges, is incredibly well in his skin, but who is going through a real crisis of the quarantine. We understand his sorrow of having lost his children”.

Until reality strikes us: “'Oh, he's the bad guy!” He is the most subtle, the most devious and the most unexpected, because he hides behind an elegant and polished appearance “.

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For Molly Smith Metzler, the main female characters are not the monsters of this story. They are not the image we have of sirens, which in mythology attract men in their fall:

“Women-especially those like Michaela, Simone and Devon-are demonized, or presented as seductors, or they are beautiful, or even presented as monsters, but who can say that they are the sirens? What is a monster?”

Everything is a question of perspective for the creator of the series. “In Greek mythology, sirens are only described by sailors. You never know their point of view”explains Molly Smith Metzler. “So even in a series like this with these strong female roles, in the end, Peter's point of view is very, very important”.

In mythology, the song of the sirens is not a way to attack man, S according to Molly Smith Metzler, but a call to help. “In the original myth, they are there because they are punished”she explains, “They are trapped. They are unhappy. It is a call for help. All these sailors crash their own ship. And then they say to themselves: 'It is because of these beautiful young girls'.”

A “happy” end for the heroines of “Sirens”?

In the end, the heroines of Sirens manage to choose. Even if she finishes with Peter, Simone chooses what seems to her best for her. Haunted by his childhood trauma, Simon chooses financial security and peace of mind on the island with Peter. She uses him and her love for her in order to lead a more peaceful life.

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For her part, Devon gives up a life with another man to return home. The young woman realizes that Michaela is not the monster she thought was but a woman trapped who was trying to get out of it. And Devon will try to get out of it as she taking a new start, working on herself and taking care of her sick father.

Finally, Michaela finally seems to be released from the grip of Peter and the image that others had of her. On the boat that take them away from the island, Michaela and Devon share a deep conversation that release them from their respective demons and prisons.

We do not know what will happen to the heroines of Sirens, but the Netflix fiction is considered a mini-series. Unless the platform decides to offer her a second season, as she did for another mini-series, a perfect couple.

Meghann Fahy, already present in the cast of a perfect couple, told Variety that it would be ready for a suite. “It ends very naturally, but I imagine what becomes the universes of the characters”she said. “For my part, I would really like to know what happens to Michaela, where she is going. So I think it's quite possible. We haven't talked about it on the set, but I would love to do more“.

The “Sirens” mini-series is available on Netflix.