Elisabeth Moss Is a Reality-Challenged Journalist in ‘Shining Girls’: Everything to Know

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A crime drama with a twist. Elisabeth Moss has added another prestige TV show to her resume with the new Apple TV+ series Shining Girls.The Mad Men alum plays Kirby Mazrachi, a research assistant at the Chicago Sun-Times who suffered a violent attack six years earlier.

The perpetrator was never caught, so Kirby decides to investigate with help from a reporter named Dan (Wagner Moura).Along the way, however, she starts to experience strange occurrences: people in her apartment who weren’t there before, for example, or slight changes in her hair.

As she searches for the man she believes is a serial killer (Jamie Bell), she also begins to question reality.In addition to playing the show’s lead character, Moss also served as an executive producer and directed two episodes of Shining Girls. “The directing has made the acting part more exciting than it’s ever been,” the Handmaid’s Tale star told Newsweek ahead of the show’s April 29 premiere. “It’s just a way of keeping exploring the project in an even deeper and more complex way.”The Emmy winner has starred in her fair share of dark productions over the years, and Shining Girls is no exception.

Despite the series’ harrowing subject matter, however, Moss is proud of how the show tackles the reality of surviving any sort of life-altering event.“I felt like the analogy of trauma was honest,” the Shirley actress said during a Television Critics Association panel discussion in February. “Kirby has never been able to move on from these experiences, which is the analogy of the show.