“Kirby Mazrachi is a young woman who narrowly survived a brutal attack years before Shining Girls gets underway, and all she wants to do is go about her life with some degree of normalcy.
“But the Apple TV+ thriller based on Lauren Beukes’ novel quickly establishes that a normal life will prove elusive: Adding insult to literal injury, the years since Kirby’s assault have brought on shifts in her reality.
“This manifests in Kirby’s never being certain if the apartment she leaves in the morning will still be her home when she comes home at night, whether a pet cat or dog will greet her at the door, whether she’s single or married… you get the horrifying gist.”
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