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If you didn't watch new Netflix TV series Sirens in one sitting over the bank holiday weekend, what were you actually doing?
Starring Julianne Moore, Meghann Fahy and Milly Alcock, it explores wealth, social class and trauma when Devon (Fahy) tracks down her wayward sister Simone (Alcock) who is working for enigmatic socialite Michaela (Moore).
By the end of a dramatic Labor Day weekend, we see the sisters split once more – Devon headed back to Buffalo to care for their dementia-ridden father, while Simone makes the most shocking choice of all. In order to save herself once Michaela fires her and tries to exile her from the Upper State New York island their compound resides on, she decides to fight fire with fire and show her husband Peter (Kevin Bacon) the photo of the two of them kissing that Michaela has kept as leverage in case they divorce.
This discovery pushes Peter over the edge, instructing a member of his staff Jose to destroy the image and effectively ending his marriage to Michaela. Bizarrely, but perhaps predictably, this leads to Peter and Simone getting together. The very end of the series sees Simone as the new bride looking over the estate after Michaela has instead been exiled. Devon begged her to return to Buffalo with her, but Simone could not go back to that life.
“We worship money as a society.”
Milly Alcock on what happens to Simone in Sirens
In a recent interview with The Wrap, Milly opened up about what she believes will happen to Simone after the final moments of the series. When it comes to what Simone's life will look like after making her choice, Milly predicts she will start a family with Peter and help to look after his estate. "She'll have a hand in a few things – I think that she'll help Peter run things, so that she knows what's going on," she said.
Of course, her decision at the end of Sirens included throwing Julianne Moore's Michaela completely under the bus. Milly is sure that the friendship between the two is 100% over.
"I think that she feels a lot of guilt for what she's done, because she's not a monster It's a really uncomfortable place for her to revisit– it's like a bad breakup, you don't want to think about it," she said, adding that Simone is “chronically performing” due to problems with her own self image and identity.
"I don't think Simone knows who she is. That's the saddest thing about her, she's chronically performing to fit into whoever somebody needs her to be. She's playing this part, she's so desperate for everyone to believe it."
Milly opens up about why she thinks Simone made the decision to marry Peter, and it was all to do with her own validation. “Ultimately, Simone, throughout this and throughout her whole life, just wants to be seen of value, and have safety and security and stability, as we all do as people,” she explained, going on to open up about the “heartbreak” that came with the two sisters' split at the end of the series. “I think that they both inherently knew that they couldn’t change one another, and that’s what is so heartbreaking. You can love someone to death, but you can’t live their life for them.”
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Meghann Fahy on the Sirens ending
Meghann also talked about her shock at the ending of Sirens. “I didn’t see it coming — I was shocked by it, and then it ended up making sense,” she told The Wrap. “The more I thought about it … that feels actually really true that at the end, Simone would choose to do absolutely whatever it takes to not have to go back to her life in Buffalo, and that Devon would make the opposite choice.”
On a positive note, though, Meghann feels like there is a positive future in store for Devon.
“The Devon we leave is someone who's going back home with a better sense of self and more hope for her own future than she had at the beginning.”
“I just want young women to feel inspired, empowered, and that they're not alone in the journey that we're all on.”
