Devon’s realisation that her sister isn’t leaving the island with her is a strange, cathartic moment. For Meghann, it involves a shift in how she views Julianne’s character Michaela/Kiki. “It’s really the moment that Devon realises she was blaming the wrong person the whole time,” she said in an interview with Netflix’s TUDUM. “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.’ ”
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Molly Smith Metzler was coy when questioned about who the “sirens” of the series are, if any of the three leads – or all of them – are meant to be based on the mythical creatures.
She said: “Women — especially women like Michaela, Simone, and Devon — are villainised, or cast as seductresses, or they’re beautiful, or they’re cast as monsters, but who’s to say they’re the sirens? What is a monster?”
“We call these women monsters in the myth, but for all we know, they’re just singing for help. In the original myth, they’re there because they’re being punished. They’re trapped. They’re unhappy. It’s a cry for help. All these sailors crash their own stupid ship. And then they’re like, ‘It’s because of these beautiful maidens.’ ”