Sirens (2025)

Matt Roush says...

If Barbie had a trashy sibling (say, Slutty Skipper), that’s the dynamic between estranged sisters Simone (House of the Dragon‘s Milly Alcock), the perky golden one, and hot-mess Devon (White Lotus alum Meghann Fahy). In a broadly satirical yet sinister five-part camp dramedy, reminiscent of beach-read guilty pleasures like last year’s The Perfect Couple, Devon vows to rescue the sister she helped raise in Buffalo from the cult-like clutches of Kiki (a sublime Julianne Moore), a silkily manipulative philanthropist to whom Simone is creepily devoted as a very personal assistant. (They sometimes share a bed and are seen swapping gum.) Arriving at Kiki’s sprawling seaside compound atop a New England cliff, where Labor Day gala preparations are underway, the brazen and disruptive Devon snarks at all of the obscene wealth while trying to wake up Simone, who she still sees as “a traumatized little girl who’s always trying to outrun her past.” Kevin Bacon co-stars as Kiki’s billionaire husband.

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