[Warning: This post contains MAJOR spoilers from Season 1 of Sirens.]
In Sirens, Netflix’s new darkish comedy, Devon (Meghann Fahy) units out to carry her sister, Simone (Milly Alcock), dwelling so she will have assist caring for his or her ailing father, Bruce (Invoice Camp), who’s been recognized with early onset dementia. She definitely didn’t look forward to finding Simone working as an assistant to billionaire Peter Kell’s (Kevin Bacon) spouse, Michaela Kell (Julianne Moore), on the luxurious Cliff Home.
After witnessing what was occurring on the lavish property — together with visitors dressed like “Easter eggs” and Michaela main a gathering with a scepter — Devon shortly likened it to a “cult” and made it her mission to get her sister out of there. However was Michaela truly working a cult and preserving Simone underneath her spell?
“I all the time seen the ‘cult’ form of thread of the present as a purple herring, you recognize?” Alcock tells TV Insider. “It’s not truly a few cult. It’s extra a commentary on how class is a cult, how wellness is a cult, [and] how sure industries construct this massive following. I believe that, by nature, you form of get enamored by folks with some huge cash due to the promise of what they will present for you.”
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The actress provides that folks aren’t “bowing” to Michaela, however are merely infatuated by the truth that she has a lot cash and lives such a lush life-style.
Moore agrees, including, “That’s undoubtedly a purple herring. I believe what Alyssa Norwin, TV Insider Molly [Smith Metzler] is making an attempt to say, in a kinetic manner, is that numerous insular communities can really feel fairly cult-like. I believe generally class, in and of itself, can really feel cult-like, as a result of it’s hierarchical and it’s constructed to maintain folks out. I believe this concept that there’s social mobility is one thing that may be a fallacy in our nation, or in any nation. In order that’s what she’s speaking about. She’s speaking about that sense of one thing seeming so completely different, so different, that it virtually looks like a cult.”
Along with her wealth, Michaela runs an aviary on her property and is enthusiastic about animal activism, notably with birds. Whereas she wasn’t in a position to have youngsters of her personal, she discovered a approach to mom and nurture by dedicating her time to caring for these animals and serving to them get to a degree the place they could possibly be let loose.
“I believe that she needed to do one thing essential and I believe that she needed to assist,” Moore says. “This concept that she could possibly be concerned in conservation and wildlife and it was one thing that was not going to be frivolous, that she was going to make a distinction someplace … and for somebody who had been working as an lawyer and had most likely been reaching lots in her life, it was arduous to present that up, to surrender any sense of doing work that mattered, in order that’s what she was going to do. Additionally she needed to assist one thing the place she felt assist was wanted. These birds, in a way, had fully misplaced themselves in the identical manner that Michaela had misplaced herself.”
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