This fascinating thriller with a serial killer who travels through time is addictive and only has 8 episodes

The first television credit of Elisabeth Moss was in 1990, when she was only eight years old, and since then she hasn't stopped. After her roles in Girl, Interrupted or as President Bartlet's daughter in The West Wing, recognition came with Mad Men and consolidation with The Handmaid's Tale.

In the series that adapts Margaret Atwood's novel, Moss expanded her professional horizon as a producer and director, paths she has successfully continued to explore in other series like this one, The Shining Girls that we recommend today.

Her career already adds up to 14 Emmy nominations, two statuettes, and a remarkable collection of memorable and iconic roles like Robin Griffin in Top of The Lake or Cecilia in The Invisible Man. Women like Peggy Olson and June Osborne who are complex, contradictory, nonconformist, and willing to confront the system or situation that oppresses them.

Elisabeth Moss stars in the series 'Shining Girls'.

Set in the 90s

This is Kirby, the character she plays in this series on Apple TV+, an archivist for the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper. Kirby survived a violent attack six years earlier, but the police couldn't gather any information about her attacker because she didn't see his face and only remembers his voice. That's why she feels he could be anyone and be everywhere.

The trauma has left her with psychological sequelae that distort her reality because she lives in fear of crossing paths with her aggressor again unknowingly. Since then, she can no longer trust her mind and keeps a diary where she records basic data of her daily life to anchor herself, because her perception of reality is ever-changing.

One day, she discovers that a recent murder may be connected to the attack she suffered and decides to collaborate on the case with Dan (Wagner Moura), one of the newspaper's investigative reporters, which will lead her to confront her past to understand her present.

In front and behind the cameras

Moss is joined in the cast by Wagner Moura (Narcos), Phillipa Soo (Hamilton), Chris Chalk (Perry Mason), Amy Brenneman (The Leftovers), Jamie Bell (Strangers), Madeleine Brewer (The Handmaid's Tale).

The series is based on the homonymous novel by Lauren Beukes, adapted for the screen by Silka Luisa and directed by the Emmy winners for Breaking Bad and The Handmaid's Tale, Michelle MacLaren and Daina Reid, respectively, alongside Moss, who directs an episode behind the cameras.

Why you should watch it

It's a fascinating thriller for its terrifying premise, in which a serial killer has the ability to travel through time. A psychological drama with multiple timelines and multiple reality shifts, told from the perspective of its protagonist, played by a spectacular Elisabeth Moss, to the surprise of no one.

Although the ending leaves open the possibility of a continuation, the main storyline is closed, and the novel it's based on has been fully adapted.

*This article has been automatically translated using artificial intelligence