June 2025

How a Hypnotic Scene From Sirens Puts Viewers Under Its Spell

Way back in 2012, I was the cinematographer on the television series The Killing. I was lucky to meet director Nicole Kassell on that AMC/Netflix project and make three episodes that I’m very proud of. Nicole and I continued on Watchmen a few years later, and I cannot say enough about her qualities as a filmmaker and leader. So, when she approached me about a new limited series, Sirens — written by Molly Smith Metzler in a very unusual, dark and funny tone — our adventure to try to discover, and uncover, the right visual language to tell this story began. Sirens is set on a coastal island, where Devon (Meghann Fahy) finds that her sister, Simone (Milly Alcock), is working as a live-in assistant to the wealthy and oddly alluring Michaela...more