- Network: Apple TV+
- Series Premiere Date: Apr 29, 2022
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Whether or not the convoluted plot will hold together across the whole series is up for debate, but as a portrait of trauma, it is devastatingly effective.
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Non-linear storytelling has always been more easily accomplished in novels than in films or series, and Shining Girls unfortunately struggles to get it right. It does mostly stick the landing, but it's a bumpy, occasionally frustrating road before this series is truly able to shine.
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Alongside Moss, Moura as the journalist aiding her, and Jamie Bell as the personification of human venality pursuing her, do fine work. But there’s simply not enough story here to make for a credible eight-episode series, which means that things lumber when they should soar, and every story point is overexamined.
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The villain is both vaguely written and bizarrely benign. It’s not just him, either; the circuitous, tiresomely-stretched-out series fails to establish any real characters beyond its protagonist.
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Moss is obviously a draw, but even she can only do so much with thin and confusing material.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 17
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Mixed: 4 out of 17
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Negative: 3 out of 17
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May 1, 2022