Sirens (2025)
Netflix | Release Date: May 22, 2025
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
14
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The GuardianLucy ManganMay 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. Read full review
91
IndieWireBen TraversMay 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. Read full review
88
USA TodayKelly LawlerJul 9, 2025
Season 1 Review: The overall aura is compelling enough to keep you watching. So yes, the song of "Sirens" will have you hooked for all five episodes, which start chaotic and get more unhinged from there. Comparisons to HBO's "Lotus" are unavoidable. Read full review
88
The Mercury NewsRandy MyersMay 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: Mythology, feminism and three terrific female performances intertwine to defy predictability and expectations. Read full review
80
The AtlanticSophie GilbertMay 27, 2025
Season 1 Review: Fully Netflixed by Metzler into a five-episode adaptation, the final product is a triumph of the popular-novel-to-series genre: funny, caustic, absurd. Read full review
80
SlateRebecca OnionMay 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. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid OpieMay 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: Sirens is the perfect getaway: a beautifully shot, deranged escape from reality that digs into the strange dynamic formed between three women who are far too close for their own good.  Read full review
80
DeciderJoel KellerMay 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: Sirens works because it leans into the absurdity of the story and the awfulness of most of the characters, making the show a dark comedy that’s truly comedic. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Roxana HadadiMay 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: The show’s appeal lies in its complicated depiction of bickering and bruising sisters, with prickly performances from Meghann Fahy and Milly Alcock giving the series an alluring and distinguishing jolt. Read full review
80
VarietyAlison HermanMay 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: As a whole, “Sirens” simply has too many tonal switchbacks for all of them to work, even if the ones that land create a unique and thrillingly unpredictable energy. Viewers will nonetheless find themselves under the series’ hypnotic hold. Read full review
80
The TelegraphAnita Singh May 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: It’s a blackly comic affair, and while it’s nowhere near the level of Succession or the first two White Lotus series, it whips along with a healthy sense of the absurd. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comKaiya ShunyataMay 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: While the fifth and final episode leans into this too much, the show never overstays its welcome. “Sirens” is a true limited series in an era where they’re pretty scarce, and although it lacks bite at times, in the end, it still manages to pack a thrilling punch. Read full review
71
TV GuideKeith PhippsMay 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. Read full review
70
Screen RantGrant HermannsAug 28, 2025
Season 1 Review: I really would have liked to see more of a focus on this tone in lieu of the melodramatic, soap opera-like atmosphere it keeps coming back to. That's not to say its drama is poorly executed. Read full review
70
Boston GlobeCaroline FramkeMay 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: Though the tonal shifts between Simone’s sincere commitment to serenity and Devon’s messy hijinks can be disorienting, the show is most effective when it’s not taking itself 100 percent seriously. Read full review
70
The Daily BeastNick SchagerMay 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: As far as sagas of the untrustworthy rich and famous go, it’s an eminently watchable tale of greed, ambition, deception, and trauma (So. Much. Trauma.), aided in no small part by a big, bold, charming performance from Meghann Fahy. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydMay 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: The ending I found half-satisfying, or half-frustrating, from character to character, but there are great, committed performances along the way, and I was far more than halfway entertained. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonMay 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. Read full review
70
ColliderTherese LacsonMay 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: Ultimately, there's a lot of potential in Sirens. There are comedic moments that made me laugh out loud, scenes that really made me think and question a woman's place in society, and instances when you can see just how intricate Metzler's work on this story is. Read full review
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