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Shining Girls
Season 1 Premiere: Apr 29, 2022
65
6.9
All Seasons
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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69% Positive
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19% Mixed
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12% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
65
69% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
19% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
12% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
The payoffs in “Shining Girls” are well worth the time investment. ... The acting is sublime. The writing is outstanding.
Even as the female victim count adds up, Shining Girls keeps its integrity and never backs away from this underlying truth.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 34 User Ratings
6.9
62% Positive
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
24% Mixed
8 Ratings
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15% Negative
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5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 34 User Ratings
6.9
62% Positive
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
24% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
15% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
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“Shining Girls” is undeniably kooky, but the characters, situations and the city itself are so vividly brought to life that you’ll be dying to figure out what happens next. Just watch it with the lights on.
Because of how convincingly Moss plays Kirby’s dilemma, it’s completely possible to pretend that the trippier genre elements either aren’t there at all or don’t matter. ... Even once you know generally what’s happening, the hows and whys never really materialize, which is something more likely to bother viewers approaching Shining Girls as a thriller than as a character study. It doesn’t help that none of the supporting players around Moss have much to play.
As a critic, I get paid to watch TV shows, which is a lucky thing for Apple TV's new series Shining Girls, because for its first two and a half hours, it's nearly unwatchable, even though it starts with a reasonably enticing premise: a couple of reporters trying to track down a serial killer. Slooooow, confusing and riddled with what-the-hell moments, it moves at the pace of a snail on Quaaludes. And then, the snail gets a shot of crystal meth. Shining Girls is an immensely entertaining show, if you have the time and patience to wait it out.
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.
It’s an endless, uninflected mood piece, with a mystery that is so long in unraveling that by the time it’s over, no one cares.
Production Company:
- Appian Way
- Factory Underground
- Love & Squalor Pictures
- Media Rights Capital (MRC)
Initial Release Date: Apr 29, 2022
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
ReFrame
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Pena de Prata
• 1 Nomination
Australian Directors Guild Awards
• 1 Nomination
