Whenever your profession is showcased in a movie or on a TV show, it’s impossible not to notice what is accurate and what would NEVER happen. Whether you’re a cop or a construction worker, a lawyer or a pharmacist, a farmer or a chemist—doesn’t matter. You’ll be watching this movie or that show, and you’ll nod in recognition at the moments of accuracy, and howl in derision when they fly off the rails in the name of poetic license.
In the elegantly constructed, hauntingly memorable and beautifully filmed new Apple TV+ series “Shining Girls,” series executive producer, sometimes director and star Elisabeth Moss plays one Kirby Mazrachi, an archivist at the Chicago Sun-Times in the early 1990s—and as someone who was working as a reporter and columnist at the Sun-Times at that time, I was left mesmerized at how the production team expertly, dare I say perfectly, captured the very essence of the paper in that era.
