Julianne Moore, Milly Alcock and Meghann Fahy explain the ending of Netflix’s Sirens

The new Netflix show Sirens is super gripping. Simone (Milly Alcock) is the assistant of a really rich woman called Michaela (Julianne Moore) or Kiki for short. Simone’s sister Devon (Meghann Fahy) visits her. Chaos ensues, with plenty of fancy outfits and glamorous mansions. Lovely. The plot gets pretty complicated. Thankfully, the Sirens cast have explained their characters’ motivations in the finale. Here is the ending of the Netflix show Sirens explained by Milly Alcock, Meghann Fahy, Julianna Moore and Kevin Bacon.

Peter finally divorces Michaela

What a relief. Michaela sees photos of her husband Peter kissing her assistant Simone. Michaela fires Simone. She tells Peter that Kiki is holding onto these pictures, in case he tried to divorce her. This plan severely backfires, because Peter decides now is the ideal time to divorce Kiki and start a relationship with Simone instead.

Kevin Bacon explained to Tudum that his character Peter wasn’t just using Simone to get back at Kiki. “He’s not using her. He definitely falls in love with her, and he is definitely angry at Kiki for denying him access to his children for all his years. Those are real things.”

Simone properly replaces Michaela

A moment of appreciation for this dress, please
(Credit: Macall Polay / Netflix)

Simone tells Devon that she and Peter are like, super in love now. She goes to the gala with Peter, and makes their relationship official. The last shot is of Simone in front of the mansion that’s basically hers now, gazing out at the ocean.

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Milly Alcock has revealed that her character isn’t really in love with Peter. “I think that she feels safe with Peter,” she explained to Tudum, “I don’t think she’s in love with Peter, but I think that she sees an ally within him, and so she feels comfortable sharing the information about the photograph, and she feels comfortable saying yes to his proposal.”

Devon decides to leave the island

She’s going to return home, but get a new apartment away from her dad.

Meghann Fahy reckons Devon had an epiphany about Michaela right before she runs into her on the ferry and they have a DMC. She told Tudum: “It’s really the moment that Devon realizes she was blaming the wrong person the whole time. Simone made a choice to stay and Devon didn’t want that to be true, so she was convincing herself that Kiki was some sort of cult-leading mastermind who was manipulating her sister into staying, that the truth couldn’t be that her sister didn’t want to come home or have anything to do with her family. When she realises that, she realises, ‘Wow, Kiki is a woman and a person and not a monster.’

The ending is supposed to be positive for Michaela

I’m so relieved this bird made it out unscathed
(Credit: Macall Polay / Netflix)

Michaela has lost her husband, her friend, and her very nice house. But Julianne Moore sees this as a happy ending for the character.

“I think she’s ready to get on with her life,” she told Today, “In a sense, she’s kind of back to herself. She’s really back to someone who doesn’t know what her future is, but she has agency, and she’ll make decisions based on her own life and her own needs. So I actually think she’s in a good place.”

The show’s ending is meant to make a powerful point

Sirens explores the dynamics between men and women. It’s supposed to dispel the perception that sailors who encounter the mythological beings sirens are just passive victims.

At the end of Sirens, Peter leads Simone down the stairs at the gala and we realise they’re going to start a (fairly disturbing) romantic relationship. Peter essentially swaps out Michaela for Simone. We stop seeing Michaela as an evil mastermind, and realise how in control of everything Peter is.

Julianne explained: “Peter Kell has all the power because he has all the money, and this is very much about social and economic hierarchy. And when you really peel it back, you realise the person making the decisions, if you go all the way up, is that billionaire.”

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