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Apr 29, 2022 · Brian Tallerico April 29, 2022. Tweet. There have been so many serial killer thrillers on television that writers are running out of ways to keep the genre fresh. Enter “Shining Girls,” a new Apple TV+ thriller based on the novel of the same name by Lauren Beukes, starring Elisabeth Moss, Wagner Moura, and Jamie Bell.
Apr 29, 2022 · Full Review | Dec 26, 2022. Kristy Strouse Wonderfully Weird and Horrifying. A perplexing series with no shortage of hard-to-watch moments, Shining Girls is an enthralling, bold tale....
84% Avg. Tomatometer 55 Reviews 87% Avg. Audience Score 100+ Ratings Newspaper archivist Kirby Mazrachi's dreams of becoming a journalist are put on hold after she survives a brutal attack that...
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Shining Girls' time-bending conceit often induces a headache instead of thrills, but Elisabeth Moss' superb performance gives this mystery a riveting center of gravity. Read Critics Reviews...
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Posted: Jun 3, 2022 2:00 pm
Shining Girls: Season 1 is now streaming on Apple TV+. The below review contains some light plot details, but no major spoilers.
At times an indecipherable thriller, but always a compelling and highly bingeable one, Shining Girls puts a new spin on both the serial killer thriller, and the time-travel genre. Rather than focusing on the one doing the time-traveling or the killing, it gives the spotlight to one of the would-be casualties and all the ways in which her world is turned upside down.
It’s set in 1990s Chicago, portrayed as an era of optimism and excitement for the future, where technology is quickly catching up to the public's imagination and journalism is still a thriving industry. Yet things are not exactly optimistic or exciting for Kirby (Elisabeth Moss), who is years removed from an assault that almost killed her, and continues to scar her every waking moment. A once promising journalist, she now works in the archives of the Chicago Sun-Times, hoping to one day get her byline in the paper. When a woman is found dead with a similar scar as Kirby's, and with a similar object being left inside her by the killer, she goes down a spiral trying to piece together what happened to her, the many other women before her, and what could happen to the next one in line.
Showrunner Silka Luisa's TV show is a strange adaptation of Lauren Beukes' novel of the same name. If you have never even heard of the novel before, then it might be quite hard to know exactly what is going on in the first few episodes. Shining Girls does keep things extremely close to the vest compared to the openness of the book, meaning its themes, genre, and even framing are hidden from us at first.
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Shining Girls puts a new spin on the time-travel story, showing how a person's world can literally fall apart in a split second. With yet another phenomenal performance from Elisabeth Moss, a gripping mystery, and a constant sense of dread, this is one thriller that greatly benefits from the binge-watching model – especially since its story does en...
Jun 3, 2022 · Shining Girls review: a genre-bending thriller on Apple TV Plus - The Verge. Entertainment. Apple TV’s Shining Girls is a genre-bending crime thriller. Chicago isn’t a dreamland for...
Apr 27, 2022 · TV Reviews. Elisabeth Moss in Apple TV+’s ‘Shining Girls’: TV Review. The actress plays an aspiring Chicago reporter whose reality is upended when she's attacked by a serial killer in this...
