Siren: my new series crush

A few weeks ago now, I discovered by chance a new series appeared this year, and which I hope will last several seasons. Siren.

The story is happening in our time, in a small port city in the United States, Bristol Cove, known for its captions about mermaids. Ben and Maddie are a young couple, both working with marine animals and doing everything to protect marine wildlife from intensive fishing and other threats to the ocean. But their lives change when they meet Ryn, a lost and strange young woman, in search of her lost sister. They will quickly realize that Ryn is not just a human, but a mermaid, and that her sister would be a prisoner at a military base. Very quickly, the situation gets worse, the military doing everything to stifle the case. The ocean does not belong to human beings as they thought, and the situation could quickly lead to a war between humans and the people of the ocean.

What I already like about this series is the appearance and behavior of the mermaids. They are not nice Disney mermaids, but ferocious and dangerous predators, able to kill a shark. Mermaids use their chant to lure their prey towards them, and have claws and sharp fangs. In addition, they have a superhuman strength. When they go on land, their fish tail turn into human legs, and in contact with sea water, become a fish tail again. The metamorphosis is always an excruciating pain because the flesh fuse and detach. Sirens are intelligent and are desperate to defend their territory against humans they consider as invaders, or as prey at times.

My favorite character is Ryn. And not only because she is beautiful and strong, but because she has a complex character. She is a mermaid, and even though she feels mistrust of humans at first, she slowly learns to know them, with Ben and Maddie. She learns their language, their way of life, and learns above all that all humans are not monsters as she thought.

For now, the series has only one season, but I cross my fingers for a second season to come.

Mathias, the Killmaster

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