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Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.

This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan join Naga Munchetty to review Sirens.

Sirens on Netflix stars Meghann Fahy from White Lotus, Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon and more.

Fahy plays Devon, who thinks her younger sister Simone has a creepy relationship with her new boss Michaela, played by Julianne Moore. Devon has decided it’s time for an intervention.

What do the Must Watch reviewers make of it?

Naga: “Is it a must watch, Scott?”

Scott: “It is for me. I thought I wasn't going to like this show purely because haven't we just become so tired of all of the shows about posh people in their privileged lives being quite miserable or there being something sinister behind their lifestyle.”

Hayley: “I'm not tired of those yet.”

Scott: “There have been so many and, of course, the White Lotus, the most recent series, didn't really work for us. It just felt like it had been stripped of all of the jokes.”

Naga: “But you wanted it to, so there's an appetite. You were disappointed that it didn't work because you both love series one and two.”

Scott: “I also just felt that we were at capacity for these types of shows. So, when this one came on my list, I was like, “ugh”.

“But then I just absolutely fell in love with it. And I think it's because it's about the relationship between two sisters. One sister you see in the first episode, she gets home, she hasn't been to bed yet, her car is impounded.

“And on her front porch is the most ostentatious fruit basket from her sister, who is a personal assistant to Julianne Moore in this show. I mean, not the person, she's playing a character. And she's so full of rage, this sister, about receiving this fruit basket, and she's also having to look after her father, who has early onset dementia by herself.”

Scott: “She then travels 17 hours to return the fruit basket in person, just to yell at her. And from that point onwards, we then sort of going into this mystery about whether her sister and Julianne Moore are part of this sort of cult. And whenever Julianne Moore enters a room, there's a particular aura, angelic themes. It's all very kind of rosy and lovely and warm, which is what I completely expect to happen when Julianne Moore actually enters the room.”

Naga: “We should say we're all massive fans.”

Hayley: “We love her.”

Scott: “Oh, my word, but as that then continues, so you then learn that all of our staff have signed NDAs, cameras film everything that they do, all of the staff are on a very strict diet, so the anxiety about whether this a cult starts to circulate.

“I think it's the fact that this is just so consistently funny throughout. It never loses its wit. It's a bit like The Perfect Couple, which Hayley would have forgotten by now. That was a Netflix show where someone was murdered during a wedding, but they all had a little dance in the opening title.”

Hayley: “And Nicole Kidman was wearing another incredible wig.”

Scott: “Very much so. So, I liked this.”

Naga: “Hayley?”

Hayley: “No. It's horrible. It is horrible. I wanted to like this. I've seen some reviews saying, oh, this will scratch that White Lotus itch.”

Scott: “It did.”

Hayley: “No, it doesn't. I really hate the fact that White Lotus has been boiled down to rich people having fights in nice locations. It used to be so much more.

“The last series, I can't speak for the last series. It was terrible. This will not scratch that White Lotus itch. This will just annoy you and make you want to scroll through your phone as a distraction. I was so bored with this. I was bored.

“It started off with all the right ingredients because it's got Julianne Moore, who I love. It's got a spooky clifftop house, it's got people in Stepford Wives outfits.”

Naga: “Kevin Bacon.”

Hayley: “Kevin Bacon.”

Scott: “Who is not talking about a phone for once.”

Hayley: “Rumours of a cult. It's even got deranged birds crashing into windows. It's got an angry sister turning up to destabilise everything.

“And then it turned into a kind of boring family drama where none of the spooky elements were properly used. I found this to be a whole lot of nothing. It was a waste of a good cast. And I include all the birds in that too. It was such a Netflix show. It was forgettable, wasteful and on Netflix.”

Naga: “That is the social media clip. It was a wasteful show. Even the cast was wasted, but even the birds were wasted. I love that. Brilliantly scathing.”

Hayley: “Did you like it?”

Naga: “Shall I set the scene as to how I watched it?”

Scott: “Here we go.”

Hayley: “All right, at what point did you fall asleep?”

Naga: “Well, it was late, right? I'd watched a lot of tennis and I'd drunk some wine. It was Saturday night. And I thought, I've got loads of stuff to watch and busy, busy. So, I thought I'd watch it. So, I started watching it.

“I was a bit confused at first. And I'm not an easily confused person. I was kind of trying to figure out what was going on. Completely get, you know, the music, the creepy thing with Julianne Moore. I think she's amazing. She's just so fantastic and that will never stop.

“And then, I just didn't care. I really wanted to care but I just saw rich, annoying people, stupid woman being who's completely taken in by this lifestyle and delusional as far as I could see, didn't care for her.

“Sister, I found funny, but even that wore a bit thin, if I'm being honest, because I don't think she was actually scathing enough at times, because that's what I like.

“I like real scathing, withering comments. I thought some of the staff were funny.

“I watched like two and a half episodes.”

Scott: “But I had a lovely time.”

All five episodes of Sirens are available to watch on Netflix now.

But before all that, why not contact Scott and Hayley with the shows you’ve been loving, loathing or both on mustwatch@bbc.co.uk.

This week, the team reviewed ‘What It Feels Like For A Girl’ and ‘Stick’.

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