Thursday, August 25, 2022

Winter TV Finales - Shining Girls - Season One

Shining Girls is a wild ride! Did I know what was going on? Hell no? Was I bothered when the eighth episode end credits rolled? Not really.

Based on the 2013 novel The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, for those like me wanting an Elisabeth Moss fix ahead of the Handmaid's Tale return next month. Maybe this is for you.

Airing on Apple TV+ back in April 29, 2022, concluding early June (hence a Winter TV Finale), while also having a portion of the series premiered at South by Southwest on March 11, 2022.


Kirby Mazrachi is an archivist at the Chicago Sun-Times. Years ago, she was brutally attacked and left for dead, but her assailant was never found. 

Today she is still traumatized by the assault and struggles to make sense of her reality that keeps changing. Determined to find her attacker, she discovers a murder that has a striking resemblance to her own attack. Kirby enlists the help of reporter Dan Velazquez and together they uncover several decades-old cold cases of similar murders and begin the hunt for a mysterious serial killer.

So there is time travel, flash forwards, flash backs, some creepy guy who never ages and Moss being well Moss.

It wasn't an easy watch for me, however I do always love Elizabeth Moss on the big or small screen. Shining Girls is yet another Winter series I have concluded on Apple TV+. Following of course the incredible LOOT and recently renewed PHYSICAL.

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