[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 be able to have assist caring for his or her ailing father, Bruce (Invoice Camp), who’s been recognized with early onset dementia. She actually didn’t anticipate 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 company dressed like “Easter eggs” and Michaela main a assembly 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 really operating a cult and protecting Simone beneath her spell?

“I all the time seen the ‘cult’ sort of thread of the present as a pink herring, ?” Alcock tells TV Insider. “It’s not really about a cult. It’s extra a commentary on how class is a cult, how wellness is a cult, [and] how sure industries construct this huge following. I feel that, by nature, you sort of get enamored by folks with a lot of cash due to the promise of what they will present for you.”

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 way of life.

Moore agrees, including, “That’s undoubtedly a pink herring. I feel what Alyssa Norwin, TV Insider Molly [Smith Metzler] is attempting to say, in a kinetic approach, is that a number of insular communities can really feel somewhat cult-like. I feel typically 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 feel 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 totally different, so different, that it nearly looks as if a cult.”

Together with her wealth, Michaela runs an aviary on her property and is obsessed with animal activism, significantly with birds. Whereas she wasn’t in a position to have youngsters of her personal, she discovered a solution to mom and nurture by dedicating her time to caring for these animals and serving to them get to a level the place they could possibly be let loose.

“I feel that she needed to do one thing essential and I feel 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 legal professional and had most likely been attaining a lot in her life, it was laborious to provide 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 sense, had fully misplaced themselves in the identical approach that Michaela had misplaced herself.”

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