‘Shining Girls’ team needed Chicago’s look and ‘amazing’ talent to tell the story

As the lead and executive producer of the Apple TV+ series “Shining Girls,” Elisabeth Moss found herself in the driver’s seat. Literally.

“This was the first time that I got to know Chicago, purely in a personal way, not in a work-related way,” says the “Mad Men” and “Handmaid’s Tale” star. “I was there driving myself around as opposed to [riding] in my uncle’s car.”