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Critic Reviews
The GuardianMay 21, 2025
Season 1 Review:
A plot unfurls that is wholly addictive, endlessly entertaining and utterly preposterous. But it is kept from spinning out of control (and from becoming mindless froth) by the sisters’ gradually revealed history and the deepening dynamics in their relationship, and their relationships with other characters.
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IndieWireMay 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Over five taut hourlong episodes, “Sirens” scrupulously resolves these riddles while introducing even dicier dilemmas and upending audience expectations. The initial song that draws you in is honest — Netflix‘s limited series is crackling entertainment, alive with secrets, twists, and humor.
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May 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The fun lies in picking apart which things that happen in the Cliff House are truly abnormal, and which parts just look deeply weird to Devon, and to the other working-class visitors from Buffalo who end up on the island in the later episodes. .... The cast of this farce, which is stacked with familiar movie and TV actors, is having the time of their lives.
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RogerEbert.comMay 22, 2025
May 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It's never quite clear what kind of show Sirens wants to be, which can be distracting, but it can also be as much a feature as a bug. Sirens keeps viewers guessing where it's going to go next and who, ultimately, its characters are at heart — or if they even know. Maybe it's apt that the show itself feels like it's having an identity crisis at times.
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May 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Ms. Fahy makes her [Devon] extremely funny, and a great foil for Ms. Moore’s faux-ethereal harpy. .... Their mutual, verbal torturing of each other is fun to watch, but where “Sirens” is going as a mystery will remain a mystery for some time. It is really the actors who make the series watchable, if less than believable.
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ColliderMay 22, 2025
Sep 4, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Devon seems to possess the only truly reliable moral compass among the main characters as the series heads towards its shockingly conventional soap opera ending. The climax is such a copout that it makes you want to ascribe deeper meaning to it. But what it signals most clearly is a dearth of ideas.
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LooperMay 22, 2025
May 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Metzler too often stops short of true wit and strangeness. This makes for an inconsistent tone, from which we’re happily distracted by a dazzling backdrop, a twisty plot, and diva-worthy performances—all elements that make Sirens just as fun to watch as the shows it means to critique, but not much more insightful.
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The IndependentMay 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
As an eat-the-rich satire Sirens doesn’t entirely work; neither does it fully pull off its attempts to grapple with family dynamics and generational trauma. But as a colourful, unpredictable slice of slightly bonkers summer escapism? Like the siren songs of Greek myth, it’s irresistibly alluring.
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May 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The route “Sirens” showrunner Molly Smith Metzler takes here is to go more vulgar with the humor, which is fine and often funny enough. But this efficient, if somewhat rushed, five-episode limited series also wants to get serious about heavy subjects, and the two tones don’t just clash but magnetically repel one another into different dimensions.
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May 22, 2025
May 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It may be a failure, but it’s an interesting one. Most of the shows in this corner of the streaming economy seem content to stick to a basic formula. Metzler’s out here trying a whole lot of things. They don’t fit together, yet the experiment at least leaves an impression.
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May 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
There were times, especially in the first few episodes, when I appreciated how brazenly Metzler was tackling so many disparate elements, but by the time those elements failed to cohere as anything other than superficial irony, my attention was mostly being held by a very strong, insufficiently served cast.
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