Sirens

Like “the White Lotus“ but 100 times better! They were only half the number of episodes for a start and no time was wasted on atmospheric shots of vaguely threatening monkeys or plots that go nowhere.

Two very different sisters are reunited, one successful, one rather less so. They come together in the holiday home of a fantastic rich couple who appear to have secrets and run a strange bird worshipping cult. In some ways this reminded me of Northanger Abbey in that it used all the tropes of the White Lotus style drama but in the end none of it was actually real, there was no mysterious cult, there was no Terrible murder being covered up. It was all just in our own expectations.

Sirens has no body count and not even even a big surprise of evil at the end, it was just just people,, rich and poor trying to be happy and often screwing things up in the process. A very human and humane show that was compelling all the way through. My favourite character was the house manager Jose and his knowing smirk.