Siren (2018)
Siren is a 2018 sci-fi & fantasy series created by Dean White and Eric Wald. It stars Eline Powell, Alex Roe and Fola Evans-Akingbola.
Bristol Cove sells itself to tourists as the mermaid capital of the world, a cute legend nobody takes seriously, until Ryn walks out of the surf. She is a siren, come ashore to find the sister taken from the water, and she is nothing like the postcards: fierce, feral, and out of her depth on land. As marine biologists try to understand her and the town's old stories turn literal, the sirens prove to be predators with a claim to the sea. Freeform's series threads uneasy romance through folk-horror menace. Eline Powell plays Ryn.
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What is Siren about?
Bristol Cove sells itself to tourists as the mermaid capital of the world, a cute legend nobody takes seriously, until Ryn walks out of the surf. She is a siren, come ashore to find the sister taken from the water, and she is nothing like the postcards: fierce, feral, and out of her depth on land. As marine biologists try to understand her and the town's old stories turn literal, the sirens prove to be predators with a claim to the sea. Freeform's series threads uneasy romance through folk-horror menace. Eline Powell plays Ryn.
When was Siren released?
Siren was released on 29 March 2018.
How many episodes does Siren have?
Siren has 36 episodes across 3 seasons.
Who made Siren?
Siren was created by Dean White, Eric Wald and Nick Copus.
Where can I watch Siren?
Siren is available on Hulu, Amazon Video, Apple TV Store and Google Play Movies.
Where to watch Siren
Stream: Hulu
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Cast
- Eline Powell as Ryn
- Alex Roe as Ben Pownall
- Fola Evans-Akingbola as Maddie Bishop
- Ian Verdun as Xander McClure
- Rena Owen as Helen Hubbell
- Curtis Lum as Calvin Lee
- David Cubitt as Ted Pownall
- Hannah Levien as Janine
- Sarah-Jane Redmond as Elaine Pownall
- Georgia Waters as Eliza
- Millan Tesfazgi as Cami
- Gil Birmingham as Sheriff Dale Bishop
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A few thoughts on Siren
Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Mist and Fury (here as Una corte de niebla y furia) offers the same dangerous, otherworldly romance for readers. Rumiko Takahashi's Inuyasha runs on folklore creatures and a human-spirit bond. In The Witcher 3, sirens are literal monsters of the deep, and BioShock drowns its dread in an undersea city gone wrong.
Mermaids and sirens who walk out of the sea
Siren strips the mermaid legend of its postcard charm and makes Ryn a predator with a claim to the water. For more time beneath the waves, these series run the full range of the myth, from lighter teen mermaid adventures to romances and legends where the creatures are beautiful, strange and not entirely safe.
A quiet town where something inhuman surfaces
Bristol Cove treats its old legend as a joke until the legend walks ashore, and Siren mines the unease of a small place invaded by the impossible. These series share that setup, dropping an anomaly, a creature or a returned stranger into an ordinary community and watching the calm curdle into folk horror.
Forbidden romance with something not quite human
The ache in Siren is that Ryn can love and kill in the same breath, a romance shadowed by real danger. These picks thread desire through menace, pairing people with fae royalty, monstrous suitors and creatures whose affection comes with teeth, where falling for the beautiful stranger is never a safe bet.
Small-screen mysteries where old legends turn real
Siren works as a procedural too, its marine biologists slowly proving the town's folklore literal. These series keep that rhythm of investigation into the uncanny, chasing ghosts, curses and creatures episode by episode, treating myth and superstition as cases to be cracked rather than stories to be dismissed.