And I just - as a genre lover, I hadn't ever seen that before. You know, it was, like, serial killer plus mystery plus journalism plus sci-fi. She'd also created this really elegant blend of genres. What Lauren had done so beautifully was she had really given voice to the victims and to this one survivor in particular, as opposed to just the serial killer. And, you know, the show is based on this book called 'The Shining Girls.' The title refers to really bright, talented young women that the killer targets.

One is, what's happening to me and why does my world keep changing? And also, how am I linked to these other women? And so she's really solving two mysteries. There's a recent murder that she thinks is connected to what happened to her six years ago, and she begins to start investigating that murder. So it can be small things - it can be, you know, her desk moves across the room - and then, you know, big, fundamental things. And ever since then, her world has been changing. LUISA: The show starts six years after she was attacked. Tell us about Kirby's journey and what's unusual about it. But I wonder if you could pick up the story where our introduction left off.

RASCOE: We don't want to spoil too much because this - it's some twists and turns in this show. SILKA LUISA: Thank you so much for having me. RASCOE: Silka Luisa is the showrunner and screenwriter of 'Shining Girls' and joins us now to talk about it. Everything is like always, and then it's not. And though it may seem at first like a conventional crime drama, pretty soon things start to get weird.ĮLISABETH MOSS: (As Kirby) Things aren't how they should be.ĪMY BRENNEMAN: (As Rachel) You're just still working through it. That's how the drama gets going in the new Apple TV+ show 'Shining Girls,' adapted from the novel by Lauren Beukes. It's the 1990s in Chicago, and a woman named Kirby Mazrachi is trying to solve a woman's murder that bears an uncanny resemblance to an attack she survived years earlier.

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