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.

Julianne Moore, who stars as Michaela in the series, tells TODAY.com the series started as a look at the Greek myth of sirens — winged creatures, half-birds and half-women, with songlike voices capable of luring sailors at sea to their demise.