Sirens ending: Julianne Moore and Meghann Fahy on their last scene and its deeper meaning

Sirens is one of those rare shows that shows us reality. It is like a mirror in front of us. It initially makes us believe that it is a cult drama. But then it slowly starts to take its mask off. But Sirens is really about womanhood and survival.

The show explores that through three characters: Michaela, Simone, and Devon. All three carry trauma and all three are trying to rewrite their own story. Also, somehow, all three end up on that island.

Michaela was once a respected lawyer before she became Peter Kell’s second wife. Simone is a brilliant and reserved girl who could’ve had a Yale future but chose instead to become Michaela’s assistant. And Devon is the rebellious sister who stayed back to care for their father.

By the time we reach the end of Sirens, Devon realizes that Michaela isn’t the monster everyone keeps telling she is. She's not what the world has made her out to be.

When Peter leaves Michaela for Simone, she ends up sailing away from the island on the same boat as Devon. The two women then share a moment of honesty and understanding in Sirens. Julianne Moore and Meghann Fahy, who brought Michaela and Devon to life, have shared exactly what went into creating that moment.

Let's get right into it.

Sirens: Julianne Moore and Meghann Fahy on that final scene

In one of the Netflix interviews, Julianne Moore talks about that boat scene in Sirens. She says,

“One of the things I love, too, is when she says, ‘You should cash that check I gave you,’ and it's saying, you know, ‘Freebies are rare in this world’. So it really is an acknowledgment that a lot of the power and a lot of her situation was something that she paid for in a sense with her life. It's like it wasn't free, you know, the relationship that she had with Peter Kell and then her subsequently being sort of ostracized from it. That's a big emotional payment. It's Devon coming to terms with, you know, who she thought Michaela was, not understanding what the situation was. And Michaela being pretty honest with her, all of her expectations have been really turned around. And we're able to see Michaela as a real human being and as someone who maybe made a decision in her life that was pretty disappointing.”

And then even Meghann, who plays Devon in Sirens, says:

“I love this scene. I think it's like a really beautiful moment between two women who are sort of acknowledging that none of them are monsters, and everyone is in their own pain for their own reasons, and everyone makes their own choices based on that and their experience of that. And so I think it's kind of like deeply relatable.”

There’s something really intimate about these two women in Sirens. They were once strangers and then enemies, and now sitting side by side, recognizing the weight each carries. That boat scene isn't about forgiveness necessarily. It's about understanding and letting go of the black and white definitions of villain and victim.

Meghann Fahy also tells Netflix's 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 realizes that, she realizes, ‘Wow, Kiki is a woman and a person and not a monster.’”

Michaela, who is seen as this manipulative figure, shows her emotional side. And Devon, who came to "rescue" her sister from Michaela, ends up rescuing her own assumptions instead.

Julianne and Meghann both touch on the idea that pain, power, and perspective are all intertwined in Sirens and in life. And that sometimes, simply acknowledging someone else’s humanity can feel like the most powerful act of all.

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