The psychological thriller “Shining Girls” on Apple TV+ may be fiction, but it takes the Great Chicago Flood of 1992 as its starting point: It’s the spring of 1992 and the flood has unexpectedly led to the discovery of a woman’s mutilated corpse.
That’s not how the character is written here. And that’s not how Moss plays her. As envisioned by showrunner Silka Luisa, there’s a dourness that clings to Kirby, who is generally haggard, her brow forever furrowed. Her social skills are not great. She’s been through hell and it’s left her a shell of a person. Understanding what happened to that dead woman in the tunnel just might be the key to bringing Kirby back to life.
But for much of the season, she’s defined by the fact that Something Terrible Happened To Her and everyone around her exists in reaction to that. Her co-worker at the paper is the closest thing she has to a trusted friend — Wagner Moura gives Dan the quiet intelligence and rumpled demeanor of a man who is haunted by far more prosaic concerns than whatever’s eating Kirby.
Though it was filmed here, nothing about “Shining Girls” feels particularly specific to Chicago. It’s notable that in real life, it is Black women in the city, rather than the Kirby’s of the world, who haveover the last two decades by a yet unidentified serial killer — crimes often treated with apathy by police and local media.
In the book, the killer is compelled by the forces of a supernatural house to snuff out young women who shine too bright, hence the title. It’s a boringly reductive premise — that some kind of external force has determined that women must die in order for this man to live — but his motive in the screen adaptation remains murky. Is that better or worse? I can’t decide. Either way, too many threads are left dangling or unexplained.
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