Hey Hey, What's with That “Sirens” Catchphrase? Show Creator Explains 

Hey hey! The root of Sirens' catchphrase has been revealed.

In an question and reply pinch Variety, show creator Molly Smith Metzler explained that "hey hey" — a building often exchanged betwixt Julianne Moore's Michaela “Kiki” Kell and Milly Alcock's Simone DeWitt passim nan Netflix constricted bid — was inspired by her summers moving astatine nan Yacht Club connected Martha's Vineyard.

"I had noticed that they picked up each other’s measurement of saying things," Metzler said. "One female would travel successful pinch a caller bracelet that conscionable dropped successful town, and past they’d each person it."

"They did it pinch language, too, they had their ain measurement of speaking and location was a contagion to it," she continued. "In my mind, Michaela conscionable benignant of said it 1 day, and past Simone said it back, and it became thing nan 2 of them say. I conscionable made it up."

Metzler besides explained nan meaning down nan locket Michaela wears and gifts to her friends — and "no, there's nary drugs" successful them, she said.

"The lockets are a existent point successful Nantucket Island," Metzler said. "It’s thing you tin only bargain successful Nantucket, they’re called handbasket necklaces, and they usually person ivory from Wales successful them. But they’re very expensive, they’re handmade, and everyone successful Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard is wearing them."

Metzler said that nan necklaces are very overmuch a "status symbol."

"You're not successful nan nine if you don’t person one," she said. "[Costume designer] Carolyn Duncan made that happen, made each of them happen. It’s a awesome awesome of having arrived. You person nan key, you person nan necklace, but it’s a small culty. It’s a small for illustration wearing a cross, for illustration a religion. You cognize thing that everyone other doesn’t."

From her clip spent successful Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Metzler knew she had to see Lilly Pulitzer-inspired designs successful nan series.

"Lilly Pulitzer is for real," she said. "They each person it connected successful Nantucket. Then there’s nan Nantucket reds, nan salmon colour pants. The first clip you spot it, you’re like, 'Where americium I?' It’s truthful bright. It’s benignant of like, if you’ve been there, you’re successful connected nan joke, you cognize nan pants to buy. It besides takes a definite position to put connected a dress for illustration nan 1 Simone has connected erstwhile we meet her.

Sirens, which premiered connected May 22, is based connected Metzler's play Elemeno Pea and follows Devon (Meghann Fahy) arsenic she sets disconnected for nan picturesque formation property wherever her sister Simone useful for billionaire Michaela aft their begetter is diagnosed pinch dementia.

When she arrives connected nan island, Devon becomes progressively concerned astir Simone’s creepy narration pinch Michaela, and Michaela's cult-like measurement of operating her estate.

"The vibrancy of this world: nan cliff, nan island, each those ocular elements, it was bonzer to beryllium capable to bring them to life," Metzler said. "It’s 1 point to perceive astir that connected stage, but we don’t get to spot it successful person. Everything sewage wider, deeper, much layered, much lush, much pastel, much cult."

Sirens is now streaming successful afloat connected Netflix.