Kevin Bacon also stars in Molly Smith Metzler's five-part limited series about a pair of troubled sisters and the couple of affluent benefactors who may be harboring dark secrets.

But "Sirens," a five-episode limited series adapted by Molly Smith Metzler from her 2011 play "Elemeno Pea," is wholly distinct in its often seamless mix of humor, social commentary, woo-woo mysticism and genuine explorations of past trauma.