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.

That facade draws on the pleasures of shows like Big Little Lies and The White Lotus: great actors — Julianne Moore! Meghann Fahy! Milly Alcock! — facing off against a backdrop of picturesque mansions and beaches.

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.