Siren, the new mermaid series on free form!!!!

[TheChimera]

Hi All I was just wondering if anyone's seen the trailers for the new mermaid series releasing the 29th of March on free form. To say I'm amped would be an understatement!!!![emoji869][emoji13][emoji869]

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Here is le link [emoji108]the full Monty of trailers so far.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sExa3DGy7N4

Whose going to binge watch with me [emoji13]


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[Imbrielle]

I saw it too and I too am so excited! I really hope it is good and doesn't disappoint.

[Echidna]

yass!
The first 30 seconds looked great.
I hope this will be good and not devolve into a splatter effects fest^^

[TheChimera]

yass!
The first 30 seconds looked great.
I hope this will be good and not devolve into a splatter effects fest^^

My biggest fear is a b-grade horror or a ......twilight romance


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[Echidna]

:jawdrop:
the latter would scare much more than the former!

[Imbrielle]

Agreed. Twilight ruined vampires. We don't want this to happen to mermaids next

[AptaMer]

Ha! Finally a badass mermaid on TV.

A little piece of series trivia- it is being filmed in Vancouver, and it looks from this trailer like they're using the same place in Richmond, BC (Steveston, the fishing port on Lulu Island) where they filmed Storybrooke of Once Upon a Time, as well as some scenes in The X-Files.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL7we2dogoU

[TheChimera]

Agreed. Twilight ruined vampires. We don't want this to happen to mermaids next

a sparkly mermaid could still be scary though [emoji38]


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[Mermaid Delphinidae]

You can watch the premiere episodes for free on Freeform right now, I hear it's on Hulu too.

Anyway, I watched it and I think it's off to a good start. I'm not obsessed with it (yet) but it's good enough to keep my interest at the moment. Totally looking forward to new episodes. I really hope they play up the mystery elements.

Also, FreeForm partnered with FinFun and they did an Instagram promotion where the winner got a tail inspired by the show. It looks so cool, I'd love for them to make it available for purchase. I really want a cool, monster-style mermaid tail!

[fabianfrz]

Anyone having an idea when it will be available in europe via a BD or DVD release.

[Saelyyia]

Might be awhile if you are waiting for a DVD release since the show just premiered. Hopefully a streaming site for Eu. picks it up though.

We caught it on Saturday night after a pod swim and I have to say I'm pretty intrigued so far.

[AniaR]

I enjoyed it for the most part. The mermaids are by far the best actors on the show tho lol.

[Keiris]

I found it much more interesting than the tween focused mermaid shows with magic rings and manufactured teen angst. It will be interesting to see what they do with the "Siren" aspect of the show since they just touched on it with their singing.

[Ransom]

It's a cool idea, but TBH I lost interest when I saw her tossing people around like ragdolls in the trailer. I think they kind of went overboard on her powers.

[Mermaid Holly]

I liked it. The acting wasn't great, and there were quite a few cliches, but overall, I'm excited.

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[Mermaid Kane]

Can someone PM me a summary of the last couple episodes? Like, what are those gill-looking scars on that on dude's neck?

[Mermaid Jaffa]

Noooooo! I'm in Australia and can't watch it yet!

Are there any other sites to see it?

[AptaMer]

Hi @MermaidJaffa,

It'll probably be a long time before the series makes its way to Australia.

There are 2 ways to watch it right away I can think of:

1. Freeform streams older episodes of the show here:

https://freeform.go.com/shows/siren

but the problem is it's geolocked so that if their server determines you're IP address is not from the United States, it won't let you watch. (Even though the show is actually filmed in Canada, even Canadians can't watch the show directly from Freeform)

But intrepid bingewatchers in Australia have been getting around Netflix's abysmal service there for years by using VPNs to give themselves a US IP address. The same VPN workaround will let you watch Siren on Freeform.

https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2017/12/five-vpns-you-can-use-to-access-us-netflix-in-australia/

2. Bittorrent. If you're up for learning how to use it and have lots of hard drive space, the shows appear in downloadable form within hours of their broadcast. If you save them on a USB flash drive or portable hard drive, most Blu-Ray players now will play them from the drive, or you can stream them over your home network from your computer to your TV.

[AniaR]

I launched a subreddit if anyone uses reddit and wants to contribute: https://www.reddit.com/r/SirenFreeform/

[MermaidAuquita1998]

I don’t think I’ll be watching that series


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[NorthSeaAlaria]

I just finished the latest episode and oh, wow. It's honestly a great series imo, and very feelsy at times while suspenseful at others. I will say for anyone who's worried, it's not as much of a horror as I imagined, at all. It's kind of more like a mermaid drama with elements of horror and some bits are genuinely a little bit... cute?
I recommend it to everyone!

[Mermaid Delphinidae]

Finished the season. Overall it had a lot of cliches, but I still found it enjoyable. I'm wondering what they're gonna do for the next season, I hope they try to do something a bit newer.

[MerEmma]

All right, so who's still tuning in? None of my friends are watching but I wanna talk, lol. I'm loving this show.

[Saelyyia]

I'm still watching it, but I'm a few episodes behind due to my work schedule

[she11sea]

This show is BY FAR the best mermaid show that has ever been made. The store is amazing, the characters totally believable, the writing is excellent. There was an awesome twist at the end of April and I can't wait to watch the next ones. Typically my boyfriend and I binge watch them once a month, because they are so good!

And of course, I should mention the mermaid CGI, is also better than anything else I've seen. There are a TON of mermaids in seasons 3 too.

[MerEmma]

Every week, I love what they’re doing with Xander’s character even more. I love his growth.

[Cerulean.Mermaidd]

I'm so sad that it got canceled [emoji24][emoji24][emoji24]

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[Mermaid Delphinidae]

I'm so sad that it got canceled [emoji24][emoji24][emoji24]

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I'm disappointed but not surprised. Ratings dropped a lot during season 3 and with all of the CGI, this probably isn't the cheapest show to produce. Also the season 3 finale was totally one of those "we don't know whether or not the show is getting renewed so we need to make an episode that can function as a series finale while also leaving some stuff open for story if we do get renewed".

I wonder if they'd be willing to continue the series in another medium, like comics or novels.

[TheChimera]

Also sad that it's been cancelled. But I can also see why they did. I wasn't a fan of the acting and judging by everyone else's reaction. Neither were most of you guys. I also felt that it was terribly written and that the relationships felt railroaded[emoji849] you know which one I'm talking about[emoji23] I haven't managed to finish all the episodes yet as I was watching it on showmax and I cancelled my subscription for the meantime as I'm not a fan of most the shows they have on there that are available in SA. So I'll reserve my full judgement for when I have [emoji51]

Ah well, maybe we'll have some other brace souls embark on a voyage to bring us some quality mermaid entertainment. I really am a fan of the monstrous mermaid trope. Or mermaids inspired by marine mammals. She creature will always remain my top pick, even though she has more of a melusine style tail ( which has its own charms[emoji1665])


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[Mermaid Delphinidae]

Also sad that it's been cancelled. But I can also see why they did. I wasn't a fan of the acting and judging by everyone else's reaction. Neither were most of you guys. I also felt that it was terribly written and that the relationships felt railroaded[emoji849] you know which one I'm talking about[emoji23] I haven't managed to finish all the episodes yet as I was watching it on showmax and I cancelled my subscription for the meantime as I'm not a fan of most the shows they have on there that are available in SA. So I'll reserve my full judgement for when I have [emoji51]

Ah well, maybe we'll have some other brace souls embark on a voyage to bring us some quality mermaid entertainment. I really am a fan of the monstrous mermaid trope. Or mermaids inspired by marine mammals. She creature will always remain my top pick, even though she has more of a melusine style tail ( which has its own charms[emoji1665])


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For real. Personally, I'd really like to see something animated! An animated mermaid show could actually take place primarily underwater, instead of being a land-based show with a few underwater scenes. Siren was actually pretty ambitious, it did have more and better underwater scenes than I expected, but the CGI required for that probably jacked up the production costs and contributed to its cancellation. A mermaid show could REALLY take advantage of the medium of animation.

[Echidna]

I'm really tired of "mermaid shows" which have very few underwater scenes, each only a few seconds long, and the rest being talking and traipsing about on land.
It's so unoriginal, and quite boring.
Instead of exploring the fascinating idea of a completely different world and society underwater, they always go for the same old landpeople problems we all know, inventing silly reasons as to why the mermaid has to be on land along with it.

I'm however not a fan of CGI either.
Most of it is either far too expensive, or it looks just plain bad (notable example would be the show Kambal Sirena. The underwater realm was a studio set, the actors just sat there talking, and each one had a horribly animated cgi tail shopped onto them. Looked terrible.)

It also seems counter intuitive, considering most of us strive to be as convincing as possible just in our tails and freediving, without using cgi^^

I'd really like to see a show using RL mers, with their tails, congregating and acting out a story, while swimming in real waters.
Sort of like "The Underwater Realm" were going about it, but a bit more elaborate (while not being quite as dramatic ;)).
If there is need for conversation, I always thought the mers would use sign language.
This could then be subtitled on video (or even have the actors dub themselves).
That way, you can have almost all of the story actually take place underwater.

I'd enjoy a show like that- even if it were quite "unprofessional", so to speak- much more than any of the shows on the market so far.

[MerEmma]

Yes! I completely agree. I enjoy the mermaids-mixing-with-land shows myself, but I really would love to see a show take advantage of the fully-underwater plot and storyline. It would be much higher budget, but I think it'd be great. I really enjoyed that Siren used an attempt at a sign language (even if it was somewhat pitiful) because I have always thought that would be a great viable 2nd option as opposed to dubbing in dolphin sounds or something lol.