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 with a veteran reporter to understand her ever changing present and confront her past.
Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Wagner Moura and Phillipa Soo
Full Cast: Jamie Bell, Elisabeth Moss, Deanna ReedFoster, Marc Grapey, Wagner Moura, Christopher Denham, Chris Chalk, Bridget Beasley, Kevin Gudahl, Alex Goldrich, Sadieh Rifai, Brian Boland
Episode Guide
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8.4 Shining Girls Trailer
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8.7
Homicide: Life on the Street
7.4
Bodies
7.8
The Artful Dodger
6.9
User Reviews
Watchseries; A promising premise, a decent cast, but a lazy implementation bedevilled by clichéd camera craft, ponderous pace and telegraphed temporal twists.
The very first scene is fabulous with the bee, the toy and the dialogue pointing to the nature of the two principal characters, their relationship and the distortion in time. Too much here to detail, but it hooked me right away!
After such a magnificent start, my disappointment grew steadily through the first three episodes as there is no follow up. Elisabeth Moss makes a decent attempt to accommodate the poorly written script with a good performance. This, though, is insufficient to make the character or her story interesting or relatable enough to care about.
A promising premise, a decent cast, but a lazy implementation bedevilled by clichéd camera craft, ponderous pace and telegraphed temporal twists.
The very first scene is fabulous with the bee, the toy and the dialogue pointing to the nature of the two principal characters, their relationship and the distortion in time. Too much here to detail, but it hooked me right away!
After such a magnificent start, my disappointment grew steadily through the first three episodes as there is no follow up. Elisabeth Moss makes a decent attempt to accommodate the poorly written script with a good performance. This, though, is insufficient to make the character or her story interesting or relatable enough to care about.
Shining Girls watchseries. Watched 3 so far. Genuinely getting more and more curious about where these characters and plot lines are going. Acting is great all around. Not finding it hard to follow or poorly paced as some critics suggested. 3 picked up a bit if you were finding 1&2 slow. I liked some of the trippy scenes with Dan.
I don't have a clue what's going on, BUT my goodness the acting is superb. I know there is a story in this, I just haven't grasped yet. But, the way it's going, I will!!! I'm terrified and excited at the same time. Intense, dark, and puzzling.
Wagner Moura presences is very important. He doesn't save Shining Girl but his character does add much to the flow of the show... want more, watch and let yourself be absorbed into the surreal realism...
The story is intriguing and takes the viewer on a wild chase. It is a slow start but very interesting. Mystery is solid. The series has solid acting. Character building is good.
Don't listen to TikTok attention spans. This is a good watch. Much like Apple TV's 'Invasion' the monster is something intangible and complicated. Elizabeth Moss is fantastic and sells the fragility of her character with ease. Like a prevailing wind, darkness tatters the edges of episode 1 repeatedly, hinting at an alternate reality.
Give it a shot. You might enjoy it if have a few brain cells left up there after all the memes and gif animations have destroyed the rest.