You can’t rely on Kirby Mazrachi’s world: in the morning Grendel was still her cat, when she comes home from work in the evening she has a dog named Grendel. Sometimes she lives in apartment 2B, sometimes in 3B, sometimes with her mother, sometimes with her boyfriend. And the doctor who just examined the huge scar that daily reminds Kirby that she almost fell victim to a serial killer is suddenly a man. Only the music offers solace: Kirby constantly flees from reality under her headphones to find a safe haven in the 80s post-punk of obscure bands like Pylon or Kleenex.
But Kirby’s fragmented, ever-reforming world isn’t the only strange thing in the disturbing thriller The Shining Girls, a series based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling book of the same name. Because the serial killer, whom Kirby finally begins to look for together with the reporter Dan in Chicago in 1992, lives in different realities. (AppleTV+)
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