Just under two months ago, we saw the teaser trailer for the Apple TV+ limited series Shining Girls, and with exactly one month left to go before the show’s premiere a new trailer has arrived online. You can check that out in the embed above.
The first three episodes of Shining Girls will be available to watch on Apple TV+ as of April 29th. The remaining five episodes will be released on a weekly basis, with a new episode arriving every Friday.
Shining Girls is an Apple TV+ adaptation of Lauren Beukes’ best-selling novel (buy a copy HERE). Created and written by Silka Luisa, the show stars Elisabeth Moss and tells the following story:
Kirby Mazrachi is 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, 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.
The description of Beukes’ novel gives more information:
In Depression-era Chicago, a drifter named Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining girls: bright young women who burn with potential. He stalks them through their lives across different eras until, in 1989, one of his victims, Kirby Mazrachi, survives and starts hunting him back.
Moss is playing Kirby, “a Chicago reporter who survived a brutal assault only to find her reality shifting as she hunts down her attacker”. Wagner Moura takes on the role of Dan, “a veteran journalist breaking the widening story of a copycat attack”. Jamie Bell is the “mysterious loner” Harper. Phillipa Soo plays “the intelligent and sure-footed Jin-Sook who works in the research department at the Adler planetarium”. Amy Brenneman is Rachel, “Kirby’s larger-than-life single mother.”
Moss and her Love & Squalor Pictures partner Lindsey McManus are executive producing the series with Luisa, Beukes, Alan Page Arriaga, and Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davidson of Appian Way. Moss also directed two episodes of the show, with Michelle MacLaren (whose credits include Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and The Walking Dead) directing the first two and the other four episodes being directed by Daina Reid (Never Tear Us Apart: The Untold Story of INXS).
I have yet to read the source material, but I have been on board to watch Shining Girls ever since the project was first announced, and now even more with the trailer. Will you be watching this show? Let us know by leaving a comment below.