Get ready for a mind-bending twist on the classic serial killer story.
When it comes to playing dark and distressed characters, no one does it quite like Elisabeth Moss.
From The Handmaid’s Tale to The Invisible Man, she’s given us some iconic protagonists and has become a standout name in the world of psychological horror.
In the upcoming “metaphysical thriller” Shining Girls, Moss is back doing what she does best in her role as a Chicago-based newspaper archivist who finds herself on the hunt for a serial killer.
Based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling novel of the same name, the plot sees Kirby (Moss) put her dreams of becoming a journalist on hold after enduring a traumatic assault.
When she learns a string of recent murders eerily mirror what happened to her, she partners up with crime reporter Dan Velazquez (Wagner Moura) to uncover the killer’s identity.
Then things start to get weird, like really weird.
Kirby starts to notice little things in her life keep changing since her attack. For example, she could’ve sworn she always had a pet cat, but now she has a pet dog.
She suddenly begins to feel like she’s known her attacker her whole life and even remembers speaking to him as a child.
Soon, she finds out that these murders haven’t just been happening recently, they’ve been happening over decades. How is this possible?
“He’s everybody, he’s nobody, he’s all the time,” we hear her say about the killer in the trailer.
Does who she’s looking for actually have the ability to jump through time? Only one way to find out. Kirby must embark on a reality-warping journey to stop the maniac before it’s too late.
The series stars Jamie Bell, who most of us will know from Billy Elliot, as the maybe killer, along with Dopesick star Phillipa Soo and Judging Amy’s Amy Brenneman.
The horror novel has been adapted for the screen by Strange Angel’s Silka Luisa, with Leonardo DiCaprio as producer.
Shining Girls arrives on Apple TV+ April 29.
