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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23148910\/shining-girls-review-apple-tv-plus<\/a> Over the past couple of months, Shining Girls<\/em><\/a> has shown us, in rude and anxiety-ridden detail, exactly how life hasn\u2019t been kind to newspaper archivist Kirby Mazrachi (Elisabeth Moss). When we first meet her in 1992 Chicago, she says she chose her new name because it \u201csounded fun.\u201d But I convince myself it\u2019s because Kirby\u2019s Dream Land<\/em> came out that very same year. This is probably the last glib, carefree thought I have about Kirby for the rest of the series.<\/p>\n Apple\u2019s adaptation of Lauren Beukes\u2019 genre-bending crime thriller, for the most part, elevates the novel with some welcome changes. There are no titular \u201cshining girls\u201d \u2014 at least not in the way the book danced around rather iffy views about the precocious specialness <\/em>of the very normal everyday women who are murdered. This all comes from the unhinged male antagonist but still feels like an awkward precursor to gender essentialist ideas where these women are inherently \u201cbrimming with potential,\u201d where their worth is anchored to men (or, in this case, one man). Beukes is a gifted and accomplished writer, but at times her treatment of gender \u2014 particularly the transphobic ideas<\/a> in her novel Afterland<\/em> \u2014 comes off as naive. (And, in the case of Afterland<\/em>, painfully shortsighted and deeply harmful to already vulnerable trans women; Beukes has since posted a Twitter apology<\/a>.)<\/p>\n In the novel, time-traveling serial killer Harper Curtis is fixated on \u201cshining girls\u201d: ordinary women with bright futures who need to die so he can keep using his powers. The powers come from a mysterious old house that lets him pop in and out of time between the 1920s and the 1990s; through the house, Harper chooses talismanic objects that are connected to the women and stalks them across time like a sociopathic deadbeat magician. Originally a Depression-era nobody, he settles easily into this surreal limbo as a time-traveling, woman-murdering nobody until one of his victims, Kirby, survives. The world literally changes around her \u2014 not just the details of her job or her personal life \u2014 but banal minutiae from her favorite sandwich down to the objects on her desk. It\u2019s a heavy-handed but largely well-crafted (occasionally confusing) exploration of trauma that extends to the characters and their interpersonal relationships \u2014 sort of like a deeply unchill strand game<\/a> that nobody asked for. <\/p>\n
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