ok so dorky little eleven year old me was extremely into mermaids. like, so into them. i read every book of mythology i could get my hands on, loved the water, etc. i even let my hair grow as long as it could until my early twenties, pretty much because i just wanted mermaid hair.
but the point of this post is that there’s a new tv show called siren and i just watched the premiere and it is about as out there as you’d expect a modern ~dark take on mermaids, but it does have perks. including, but not limited to:
military conspiracy, hunter-of-the-deep-sea mermaids, unexplained allusions to magic?, a hunky dude who loves fish, his cool marine biologist girlfriend, and the overall feeling like someone took an unaired episode of the x-files and turned it into a whole show
it’s got a diverse cast, is technically magical realism, and it’s genuinely pretty good so i’m just throwing it out there that it’s worth checking out if. especially if, like me, you were a dorky little eleven year old who loved mermaids