YMMV / Tidelands (Netflix)

• Complete Monster: Adrielle Cuthbert is the ruthless Queen of the Tidelanders, siren-human hybrids living in the settlement of L'Attente. Introduced purchasing fragments of an ancient horn which is capable of causing tidal floods, Adrielle, driven by ambition and prejudice, plans to decimate humanity using the past massacre of Tidelanders as a pretext. Subsequently sexually battering her business partner, drug smuggler Augusto "Augie" McTeer after he tries to confront her over the death of his subordinate, when Adrielle finds out that Augie's sister, Calliope "Cal" McTeer has returned to nearby Orphelin Bay, she sends her subordinate, Dylan, to seduce Cal, later removing the eye of a child who spied on her. Keeping her predecessor captive as a seer, Adrielle frequently extracts the seer's blood to see the future. Later, to have her authority acknowledged, Adrielle performs a Human Sacrifice to summon sirens. When an exiled Tidelander rescues the seer, Adrielle kills the seer, then publicly executes the outcast. Eventually luring Cal to L'Attente by capturing Augie, Adrielle claims to want the best for her community, but Cal calls her out on her tyranny and bloodshed.
• Evil Is Cool: While Adrielle Cuthbert is menacing, to be sure, she is undeniably attractive and charismatic as played by Elsa Pataky.

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