Sirens
Exile
Season 1
Episode 1
Publisher’s note
Photo: Netflix
Sirens Open on the majestic image of Julianne Moore, resplendent in white silk, walking barefoot through a forest to a cliff by the beach. She puts a falcon named Barnaby free and halted with joy as he goes up in the sky – a ostensibly charming moment, but through the objective of this spectacle, also extremely frightening. However everything ends, Sirens Beginning on a foot that I recognize and that I recognize both as a long -standing appreciator of art on the screen to explore the violence of white women on women. Damn go.
SMASH-CUT to: A scowl leaving a police station in a black mini-Robe and the thick eyeliner revealing a woman who does not have her life together. It is Devon, a woman who fights to keep herself, her sobriety and her family fractured together. Meghann Fahy is certainly my Daring Girlie of choice, so she takes about 30 seconds to make me pass the side of Devon. Not only is her sister, Simone (Milly Alcock), left Awol, but after hearing that their father, Bruce (Bill Camp), has early dementia, she sent edible arrangement instead of significant help. The basic unworthiness of an edible arrangement basket, in particular that which is huge and padded with Cantaloup slices, cannot be overestimated.
Devon and its black nail polish, having sent countless “sirens!” Texts that have remained unanswered, cannot believe the nerve of his sister. She catches the monstrosity of the melon, told her father where to find her beer and that of the Stouffer, and reaches a Peter Pan bus to find her sister. It is an amazing demonstration of the powerful little rage, and I have no choice but to admire the pure disdain of all this.
While Devon heads towards Simone and gives blowjobs in ferry (she is our bad Cinderella), we have seen the disinfected life better than Simone is made for herself. As a personal assistant of Michaela (Moore), the all -powerful woman of the house, she is proud to know everything that happens even before it happens. She lives in the house of “Kiki”, continues to run with her in matching athletics sets, and even write sex on her husband. She is addressed to landscapers – who rightly hate her ass – through a megaphone as if she were a president of sorority reprimands prospies. The only thing that completely seems to be in the world of Michaela is a secret relationship with Ethan (Glenn Howrton), a rich older guy whose spring clothes include Blazers dotted with rubber ducks. It is an aesthetic life, but the second Devon crashes on the threshold, it becomes even clearer that it is also very bizarre.
As DEVON points out and its “without fucking” phone cases, it is difficult to consider this life that Simone is clean when it “lives at work” and only shares anything with these people whom she considers her friends. Once Devon manages to get out of the guest house, Simone tries to hide it and find a nice gardener ally to make it everyone On the compound is liable to all the whims of Michaela. They all signed NDAs and there are cameras everywhere. No one authorized to eat carbohydrates on site, forcing the voracious crew of the land to sneak behind a hangar.
The most disturbing of everyone is what Devon sees when she finally spawns in the welcome event of the weekend that Simone is so desperate to keep her away. Michaela does not only welcome fundraising for its Falcon rescue. She chairs a meeting with an elaborate staff and opening the prayer of “Saint Rachel Carson boss” that everyone – including Simone – conscientiously recites with her. Now Rachel Carson was a marine biologist and an ecologist who was particularly frank on the potential damage to pesticides on fauna and people. None of this seems particularly #Problematic alone. But throw a group song, billions of dollars and a heavy help from Maha rhetoric? Yeah, I have concerns.
My daughter Devon agrees. “Oh! You are in a worship“, She said, sighing. The way Fahy is the book, she is less surprised than relieved. A cult gives him a reason to double her disdain for the way Simone abandoned both her sister and her life in Buffalo – who, as Ethan underlines with a certain concern, is not the same Connecticut way ”Simone education has slightly simulated. HousemaidWho also explored what is happening when the austere reality of poverty pierces the bubble of extreme wealth, so there should be much more from where it comes in the future.
As the first of the five episodes, “Exile” mainly consists in setting up the game board and its players. Michaela, who was a “great power lawyer” but is now based on a 25 -year -old child to tell her that she is pretty, is the beautiful mystery. Devon, who fought for the custody of Simone after the death of their mother and refuses to abandon their father, is the fucking who cares too much. Simone, who naturally has complex feelings towards the man who left her with a host family but who takes care of this by getting lost in other people, is the golden child who prefers not to think of her past, thank you.
Between their austere cabinets, the tense repression of Simone and the apparent sexual dependence of Devon, the sisters could not be drawn with broader features. But Fahy, Alcock and director Nicole Kassell are also very good in their work, and therefore even downright bizarre moments like Simone Chewing Michaela’s Used or Devon Licking at random the neck of a landscaper, which has a strange meaning. The scene where Michaela is politely banished the Devon of the house with a check for $ 10,000 – which is frankly close enough to care for the elderly, especially from an apparent billionaire – is the best of the episode, thanks to the nuanced reactions of Fahy and Alcock of furious and silent anxiety (respectively).
If there was another doubt about whom these characters are or what kind of show Sirens Try to be, “Exile” works in a blunt sex triptych. Devon, in a tight red dress she went to Michaela’s hotel room, fucks a stranger on a yacht. Simone, in Pink Prissy lingerie, soothes Duckie Blazer’s concerns about her traumatic past. Michaela, however, awaits her husband (who couldn’t even be disturbed as Their sex!), But he never comes. Instead, Barnaby Le Falcon – which she was so sure was ready to fly – crashed in her window, collapsing in a bunch of feathers and blood. What a horror!
And yet, it is still not as horror-blue as the moment when Devon uses the yacht telescope to look at the house to see Michaela who looks straight at him. She screams with terror, and she is right! This is the only reasonable answer to realize that a cult chief rich in dirt has your eyes trained about you – and that your sister, which you will always like despite his edible arrangement, maybe waaay On her pretty little head.
• Welcome to Sirens Recaps! Please note that the dress code is either Pastel-Ester-Egg shreds or torn black shreds and absolutely nothing between the two.
• Rooting with caution for Jordan (Trevor Salter), the hot guy who meets the “I am Christina Gray de Seattle, I am a Millionaire Tech” from Devon with his. He does not have the yacht in which they have sex; Simone’s boyfriend, Ethan, does it. “I have just fucked the guy from my boyfriend’s boat from my sister,” groans Devon / Usefully underlines for those of us who were distracted by a ringing door door. Thank you, Dev!
• I would love to be completely delighted to see The other two Sweetie Josh Segarra, but as he plays the boss of Devon’s fast food who only checks his father after threatening him with blackmail, I will have to reserve my judgment.
• Consequently, the real estate manager José (Felix Solis) is the lateral character MVP of this episode, both for his perfect response to the neck neck (“OK …”) and the following exchange: “Fan Bills?” “Yeah, go ahead. For what? You?” “Fan of dolphins.” “Ah.” “Fuck the chefs?” “”Damn The chefs. Chefs can get fucked!
• “I feel alive! And also, happiness. :)”
