Warning: This post contains spoilers from Shining Girls Episodes 1-3.
Apple TV+’s thriller Shining Girls is eerie. It’s twisty. And now that it has premiered… it’s a lot easier to talk about it without a) giving things away and b) sounding absolutely bonkers.
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The story is based on, though is not a beat-for-beat recreation of, Lauren Beukes’ 2013 novel. The premise: Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Kirby Mizrachi,...
Apple TV+’s thriller Shining Girls is eerie. It’s twisty. And now that it has premiered… it’s a lot easier to talk about it without a) giving things away and b) sounding absolutely bonkers.
More from TVLineShining Girls Recap: Realities Bite -- Grade the Premiere!Apple's Pachinko Renewed for Season 2The Peanuts Gang Helps Mom-less Peppermint Patty Get Through Mother's Day in Apple TV+ Trailer
The story is based on, though is not a beat-for-beat recreation of, Lauren Beukes’ 2013 novel. The premise: Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Kirby Mizrachi,...
- 4/30/2022
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Kirby Mizrachi is a young woman who narrowly survived a brutal attack years before Shining Girls gets underway, and all she wants to do is go about her life with some degree of normalcy. But the Apple TV+ thriller based on Lauren Beukes’ novel quickly establishes that a normal life will prove elusive: Adding insult to literal injury, the years since Kirby’s assault have brought on shifts in her reality.
This manifests in Kirby’s never being certain if the apartment she leaves in the morning will still be her home when she comes home at night, whether a...
This manifests in Kirby’s never being certain if the apartment she leaves in the morning will still be her home when she comes home at night, whether a...
- 4/29/2022
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
The role of “promising reporter turned amateur sleuth tracking a time-traveling serial killer as she herself becomes unstuck in time” sounds far too specific to be in any actor’s wheelhouse, even one as talented as Elisabeth Moss. Yet that is the immediate takeaway from the Apple TV+ limited series “Shining Girls”: That whether through the original novel by Lauren Beukes, showrunner Silka Luisa, or actor/director/executive producer Moss, the character of Kirby Mazrachi is a perfect fit for this particular star.
Maybe, at times, too perfect. As Kirby fights her way through fantastically challenging circumstances and the dismissals of so many people around her, it’s hard not to think of Moss’ exceptional work in the recent “Invisible Man” remake — a story about toxic-male violence that had the advantage of ruthless streamlining. The eight-episode “Shining Girls” has more time to build dread — and more time to trip over its uneven pacing.
Maybe, at times, too perfect. As Kirby fights her way through fantastically challenging circumstances and the dismissals of so many people around her, it’s hard not to think of Moss’ exceptional work in the recent “Invisible Man” remake — a story about toxic-male violence that had the advantage of ruthless streamlining. The eight-episode “Shining Girls” has more time to build dread — and more time to trip over its uneven pacing.
- 4/29/2022
- by Jesse Hassenger
- The Wrap
How do you even begin covering three episodes with as much going on as in Shining Girls Season 1 Episode 1, Shining Girls Season 1 Episode 2, and Shining Girls Season 1 Episode 3?
Well, you don't. You point your readers to the three links above for detailed recaps and to check out the Shining Girls quotes because there is so much depth in these episodes that you cannot do them justice in one article.
That's the peril of three-episode premieres.
But we will soldier on, and once these are out of the way, we can examine each episode individually for weekly drops.
After the premiere, we know that Kirby Mazrachi and Harper Curtis are inexplicably entwined.
Neither of them knows it, but Kirby, at least, knows something changed after Harper brutally attacked her six years ago.
He left her for dead, but Kirby didn't die. That's an outcome neither of them expected, and while Kirby...
Well, you don't. You point your readers to the three links above for detailed recaps and to check out the Shining Girls quotes because there is so much depth in these episodes that you cannot do them justice in one article.
That's the peril of three-episode premieres.
But we will soldier on, and once these are out of the way, we can examine each episode individually for weekly drops.
After the premiere, we know that Kirby Mazrachi and Harper Curtis are inexplicably entwined.
Neither of them knows it, but Kirby, at least, knows something changed after Harper brutally attacked her six years ago.
He left her for dead, but Kirby didn't die. That's an outcome neither of them expected, and while Kirby...
- 4/29/2022
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
By now, you've read my Shining Girls review and know that the new Apple TV+ series is essential TV viewing.
We had the chance to participate in the virtual press day for Shining Girls, so now you can discover why it's worth your time from the stars and producers.
Shining Girls uses a genre format to tell a story about learning to live with trauma. It's beautifully done, and those who brought it to life provide valuable insight before you start watching.
Silka Luisa adapted Lauren Beuke's novel, The Shining Girls, for TV. It's an awe-inspiring adaptation that adds essential layers to Lauren's characters.
Silka talked about what inspired her approach. "I was a huge fan of the book. As a genre fanatic, I thought the way Lauren blended the genres was something I just hadn't seen before. The way that she focuses on the aftermath of trauma, as opposed to the action of it,...
We had the chance to participate in the virtual press day for Shining Girls, so now you can discover why it's worth your time from the stars and producers.
Shining Girls uses a genre format to tell a story about learning to live with trauma. It's beautifully done, and those who brought it to life provide valuable insight before you start watching.
Silka Luisa adapted Lauren Beuke's novel, The Shining Girls, for TV. It's an awe-inspiring adaptation that adds essential layers to Lauren's characters.
Silka talked about what inspired her approach. "I was a huge fan of the book. As a genre fanatic, I thought the way Lauren blended the genres was something I just hadn't seen before. The way that she focuses on the aftermath of trauma, as opposed to the action of it,...
- 4/28/2022
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
In Shining Girls, Elisabeth Moss doesn't know what—or who—to believe. The Emmy-winning actress stars as Kirby Mazrachi in the Apple TV+ limited series, a journalist who puts her career on hold in an attempt to solve her own traumatic assault. With the assistance of reporter Dan Velazquez, played by Wagner Moura, Kirby begins to wonder if the murder of a girl named Julia is linked to her own case in this exclusive clip from the series' April 29 premiere. "The detective called me in," she says. "They thought it was the same guy." Dan, who has partnered with Kirby in an attempt to solve the crime, tries to connect the dots. "What someone...
- 4/28/2022
- E! Online
Apple TV+ has released the trailer for the highly anticipated series, ‘Shining Girls,’ starring and executive produced by Emmy Award-winning actress Elisabeth Moss.
Based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling novel, the series follows Kirby Mazrachi (Moss) as a Chicago newspaper archivist whose journalistic ambitions were put on hold after enduring a traumatic assault. When Kirby learns that a recent murder mirrors her own case, she partners with seasoned, yet troubled reporter Dan Velazquez (played by Wagner Moura), to uncover her attacker’s identity. As they realize these cold cases are inextricably linked, their own personal traumas and Kirby’s blurred reality allow her assailant to remain one step ahead.
In addition to Moss and Moura, the thriller drama stars Phillipa Soo, Amy Brenneman and Jamie Bell.
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The series will make its worldwide debut on Friday, April 29, 2022 with the first three episodes,...
Based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling novel, the series follows Kirby Mazrachi (Moss) as a Chicago newspaper archivist whose journalistic ambitions were put on hold after enduring a traumatic assault. When Kirby learns that a recent murder mirrors her own case, she partners with seasoned, yet troubled reporter Dan Velazquez (played by Wagner Moura), to uncover her attacker’s identity. As they realize these cold cases are inextricably linked, their own personal traumas and Kirby’s blurred reality allow her assailant to remain one step ahead.
In addition to Moss and Moura, the thriller drama stars Phillipa Soo, Amy Brenneman and Jamie Bell.
Also in trailers – First look teaser for season 2 of ‘Only Murders in the Building’ drops
The series will make its worldwide debut on Friday, April 29, 2022 with the first three episodes,...
- 3/30/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"After what he did... things aren't how they should be." Apple has revealed an impressive first official trailer for a new mystery thriller series called Shining Girls, based on the best-selling novel by Lauren Beukes. It's coming to Apple TV+ for streaming this April. "Things change just like that. And then it happens again, and again, and again..." Another new film about abuse and harm and how it forever changes people. Years after a brutal attack left her in a constantly shifting reality, Kirby Mazrachi learns that a recent murder is linked to her assault. She teams up with the veteran reporter Dan Velazquez to try and understand her ever-changing present and confront her past. Elisabeth Moss stars (and directed a few of the episodes as well) with Amy Brenneman, Phillipa Soo, Jamie Bell, Wagner Moura, Christopher Denham, Deanna Reed-Foster, and Marc Grapey in the main cast. The clever title...
- 3/29/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Elisabeth Moss is tormented by a mysterious man in the latest trailer (watch below) for Apple TV+‘s upcoming metaphysical thriller Shining Girls. Based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling novel, Shining Girls centers on Kirby Mazrachi (Moss), a Chicago newspaper archivist whose journalistic ambitions were put on hold after enduring a traumatic assault. The series is set to debut worldwide on Friday, April 29, 2022, with the first three episodes, followed by one new episode weekly, every Friday. The story follows Kirby as she partners with the seasoned yet troubled reporter Dan Velazquez (Wagner Moura) after learning that a recent murder mirrors her own case. As they attempt to uncover the attacker’s identity, they realize these cold cases are inextricably linked. Still, their own personal traumas and Kirby’s blurred reality allow her assailant to remain one step ahead. In addition to Moss and Moura, the cast also includes Phillipa Soo (The...
- 3/29/2022
- TV Insider
You will not want to miss this series!
Apple TV+ today released the trailer for the highly anticipated series, Shining Girls, starring and executive produced by Emmy Award-winning actress Elisabeth Moss.
If you're drawn to trippy TV that continually pulls the rug out from under you, mark your calendar now.
The metaphysical thriller will make its worldwide debut on Friday, April 29, 2022, with the first three episodes, followed by one new episode weekly, every Friday.
Hailing from MRC Television, the series is also executive produced by Appian Way and adapted for television by showrunner Silka Luisa, with Emmy Award winner Michelle MacLaren directing the first two episodes.
Based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling novel, Shining Girls follows Kirby Mazrachi (Moss) as a Chicago newspaper archivist whose journalistic ambitions were put on hold after enduring a traumatic assault.
When Kirby learns that a recent murder mirrors her own case, she partners with seasoned,...
Apple TV+ today released the trailer for the highly anticipated series, Shining Girls, starring and executive produced by Emmy Award-winning actress Elisabeth Moss.
If you're drawn to trippy TV that continually pulls the rug out from under you, mark your calendar now.
The metaphysical thriller will make its worldwide debut on Friday, April 29, 2022, with the first three episodes, followed by one new episode weekly, every Friday.
Hailing from MRC Television, the series is also executive produced by Appian Way and adapted for television by showrunner Silka Luisa, with Emmy Award winner Michelle MacLaren directing the first two episodes.
Based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling novel, Shining Girls follows Kirby Mazrachi (Moss) as a Chicago newspaper archivist whose journalistic ambitions were put on hold after enduring a traumatic assault.
When Kirby learns that a recent murder mirrors her own case, she partners with seasoned,...
- 3/29/2022
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Elisabeth Moss portrays a woman tackling deep trauma in the upcoming Apple TV+ series, Shining Girls, premiering on April 29. The first teaser, above, was released in conjunction with the show’s Ctam panel on Friday.
Based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling novel, Shining Girls follows Kirby Mazrachi (Moss), a Chicago reporter who survived a brutal assault only to find her reality shifting as she hunts down her attacker. When Kirby learns that a recent murder mirrors her own case, she partners with seasoned, yet troubled reporter Dan Velazquez (Wagner Moura), to uncover her attacker’s identity. As they realize these cold cases are linked, their own personal traumas and Kirby’s blurred reality allow her assailant to remain one step ahead.
The eight-episode drama also stars Phillipa Soo with Amy Brenneman and Jamie Bell rounding out the ensemble cast.
Moss revealed to Deadline that Kirby’s trauma has nothing to do...
Based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling novel, Shining Girls follows Kirby Mazrachi (Moss), a Chicago reporter who survived a brutal assault only to find her reality shifting as she hunts down her attacker. When Kirby learns that a recent murder mirrors her own case, she partners with seasoned, yet troubled reporter Dan Velazquez (Wagner Moura), to uncover her attacker’s identity. As they realize these cold cases are linked, their own personal traumas and Kirby’s blurred reality allow her assailant to remain one step ahead.
The eight-episode drama also stars Phillipa Soo with Amy Brenneman and Jamie Bell rounding out the ensemble cast.
Moss revealed to Deadline that Kirby’s trauma has nothing to do...
- 2/4/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Shining Girls is going to have you questioning everything. Elisabeth Moss stars in the Apple TV+ metaphysical thriller, premiering on Friday, April 29 (with the first three episodes), as Chicago newspaper archivist Kirby Mazrachi, who put her journalistic ambitions on hold after she endured a traumatic assault. When she learns a recent murder mirrors her own case, she partners with the seasoned and troubled reporter Dan Velazquez (Wagner Moura) to uncover her attacker’s identity. They realize these cold cases are inextricably linked, but their own personal traumas and Kirby’s blurred reality allow her assailant to remain one step ahead. Speaking of that blurred reality, the trailer offers a look at just that, with different hairstyles for Moss’ Kirby. “Everything is like always,” she says. “And then it’s not. Things are not how I left them. They’re not how they’re supposed to be. Because after what he did,...
- 2/4/2022
- TV Insider
Elisabeth Moss is on the trail of a man who has killed (many times) before, and will kill (lots more) again, in a mind-bendy teaser trailer for Apple TV+’s Shining Girls.
Based on the 2013 novel by South African author Lauren Beukes and adapted for TV by showrunner Silka Luisa (Strange Angel), the eight-episode metaphysical thriller will premiere Friday, April 29 with the first three episodes, followed by a new episode every Friday.
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Based on the 2013 novel by South African author Lauren Beukes and adapted for TV by showrunner Silka Luisa (Strange Angel), the eight-episode metaphysical thriller will premiere Friday, April 29 with the first three episodes, followed by a new episode every Friday.
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- 2/4/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Reality really is a matter of perspective.
The haunting trailer for Apple TV+’s upcoming series “Shining Girls” exhibits the suffocating trauma of surviving an assault — and captures what it takes to track a killer.
“He’s everybody. He’s nobody,” Elisabeth Moss says as newspaper archivist Kirby Mazrachi in the time-bending trailer for the show, which premieres April 29.
As Kirby realizes a recent murder mirrors her own attack, she sets out to find her assailant with the help of seasoned reporter Dan Velazquez (Wagner Moura). Yet the pair quickly realize that a series of cold cases are all linked, blurring Kirby’s sense of time, space, and certainty.
Jamie Bell, Phillipa Soo, and Amy Brenneman also star. Based on Lauren Buekes’ bestselling novel, “Shining Girls” is executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson, and Michael Hampton through Appian Way.
Per the original novel, the title “Shining Girls” refers to “bright young women with potential,...
The haunting trailer for Apple TV+’s upcoming series “Shining Girls” exhibits the suffocating trauma of surviving an assault — and captures what it takes to track a killer.
“He’s everybody. He’s nobody,” Elisabeth Moss says as newspaper archivist Kirby Mazrachi in the time-bending trailer for the show, which premieres April 29.
As Kirby realizes a recent murder mirrors her own attack, she sets out to find her assailant with the help of seasoned reporter Dan Velazquez (Wagner Moura). Yet the pair quickly realize that a series of cold cases are all linked, blurring Kirby’s sense of time, space, and certainty.
Jamie Bell, Phillipa Soo, and Amy Brenneman also star. Based on Lauren Buekes’ bestselling novel, “Shining Girls” is executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson, and Michael Hampton through Appian Way.
Per the original novel, the title “Shining Girls” refers to “bright young women with potential,...
- 2/4/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Apple TV+ revealed the premiere date and first trailer for sci-fi series “Shining Girls” on Friday, offering a first look at Elisabeth Moss in multiple incarnations as she chases Jamie Bell’s mysterious villain through ever-shifting realities while he targets “shining girls.”
The first three installments of the eight-episode series will debut globally on Apple TV+ on April 29, with subsequent episodes dropping each Friday.
Moss, who serves as a director and executive producer on the series, stars as Kirby Mazrachi, a Chicago newspaper archivist who survives a brutal assault. When she learns that a recent murder resembles her attack, she partners with seasoned but troubled reporter Dan Velazquez (Wagner Moura), to track the perpetrator. Phillipa Soo and Amy Brenneman co-star.
The MRC Television series is based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling 2013 novel and was adapted for television by showrunner Silka Luisa.
Emmy Award-winner Michelle MacLaren (“Breaking Bad”), who also executive produces...
The first three installments of the eight-episode series will debut globally on Apple TV+ on April 29, with subsequent episodes dropping each Friday.
Moss, who serves as a director and executive producer on the series, stars as Kirby Mazrachi, a Chicago newspaper archivist who survives a brutal assault. When she learns that a recent murder resembles her attack, she partners with seasoned but troubled reporter Dan Velazquez (Wagner Moura), to track the perpetrator. Phillipa Soo and Amy Brenneman co-star.
The MRC Television series is based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling 2013 novel and was adapted for television by showrunner Silka Luisa.
Emmy Award-winner Michelle MacLaren (“Breaking Bad”), who also executive produces...
- 2/4/2022
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
What if there was a treasure map, but you just couldn’t remember where it was?
Based on the novel by bestselling author Walter Mosley, Apple TV+’s upcoming limited series “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey” stars Samuel L. Jackson as Ptolemy Grey, an ailing man who is alone in the world as he battles dementia. After Ptolemy is assigned to the care of orphaned teen Robyn (Dominique Fishback), he is able to reclaim his memories thanks to a new treatment. While Ptolemy can only access a lifetime’s worth of memories once, he sets out to uncover a buried treasure before the clock runs out.
“You’ve got to let the river take its course,” Jackson as Ptolemy says in the trailer, “and the river knows right where it’s going.”
The six-part series stars Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, Damon Gupton, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Walton Goggins, and Omar Miller.
Based on the novel by bestselling author Walter Mosley, Apple TV+’s upcoming limited series “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey” stars Samuel L. Jackson as Ptolemy Grey, an ailing man who is alone in the world as he battles dementia. After Ptolemy is assigned to the care of orphaned teen Robyn (Dominique Fishback), he is able to reclaim his memories thanks to a new treatment. While Ptolemy can only access a lifetime’s worth of memories once, he sets out to uncover a buried treasure before the clock runs out.
“You’ve got to let the river take its course,” Jackson as Ptolemy says in the trailer, “and the river knows right where it’s going.”
The six-part series stars Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, Damon Gupton, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Walton Goggins, and Omar Miller.
- 2/4/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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