Shining Girls TV Series (2022) – Watch Online, Release Date, Cast, Episodes, Story, Platform, Trailer, Poster, Review

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Shining Girls TV Series Details
Based on | The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes |
Genres | Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Season | 1 |
No. of episodes | 8 |
Original release | April 29, 2022 – June 3, 2022 |
Running time | 41–59 minutes |
Age rating | TV-MA |
Starring | Elisabeth Moss, Wagner Moura, Jamie Bell, Phillipa Soo |
Created by | Silka Luisa |
Directed by | Michelle MacLaren Daina Reid |
Executive producers | Elisabeth Moss, Silka Luisa, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lindsey McManus, Jennifer Davisson, Lauren Beukes, Alan Page Arriaga, Michelle MacLaren, Rebecca Hobbs, Daina Reid |
Cinematography | Bonnie Elliott, Robert McLachlan |
Edited by | Hugo Diaz, John Caldwell, Blake Maniquis |
Music by | Claudia Sarne |
Production companies | Love & Squalor Pictures Michelle MacLaren Entertainment Appian Way Productions MRC Television |
Original network | Apple TV+ |
Shining Girls Cast & Characters
- Main
- Elisabeth Moss as Kirby Mazrachi / Sharon Leads, Chicago Sun-Times archivist who was attacked years ago and left for dead
- Wagner Moura as Dan Velazquez, Sun-Times reporter who helps Kirby track down her assailant
- Phillipa Soo as Dr. Jin-Sook Gwansun (Jinny), researcher at the Adler Planetarium and on Harper’s hit list
- Chris Chalk as Marcus, Kirby’s husband in one of her shifting realities
- Amy Brenneman as Rachel, Kirby’s single mother
- Jamie Bell as Harper Curtis, serial killer, and Kirby’s attacker
- Recurring
- Christopher Denham as Leo Jenkins, Harper’s friend from France during World War I
- Madeline Brewer as Klara Meiser, Harper’s girl friend from after World War I
- Karen Rodriguez as Julia Madrigal, one of Harper’s murder victims
- Erika Alexander as Abby
Shining Girls Storyline
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; together they uncover several decades-old cold cases of similar murders and hunt for a mysterious serial killer.
About Shining Girls TV Series
Shining Girls is an American science fiction thriller television series based on the 2013 novel The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes. The series stars Elisabeth Moss, Wagner Moura and Jamie Bell.
In May 2013, ahead of the novel’s release, Media Rights Capital and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions acquired the rights to develop Lauren Beukes’s The Shining Girls for television.
In May 2021, it was reported that Moss, Michelle MacLaren, and Daina Reid would direct the first season, with MacLaren set to direct the first two episodes, Moss set to direct another two episodes, and Reid set to direct the remaining four.
Principal photography began on May 24, 2021, and concluded on October 27, 2021, in Chicago, Illinois.
Shining Girls Release Date
Shining Girls premiered on Apple TV+ on April 29, 2022. A portion of the series premiered at South by Southwest on March 11, 2022.