As famend for her morose nature as she is for her horror fiction, writer Shirley Jackson (Elizabeth Moss) is crafting but another masterpiece when the appearance of newlyweds Fred and Rose disrupt her creative method and marriage to literary critic - and philandering professor - Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg). As Stanley spars to preserve educational dominance over his would-be protégé Fred, Rose attempts to hose down her own aims and modify to married lifestyles whilst residing beneath the roof in their fiery intellectual hosts with quicksilver loyalties and myriad neuroses. When the motives of Shirley's literary muse show elusive, Rose's interest and trusting nature make her soft prey for a extremely good author whose simplest allegiance is to her work.
Shirley (2020) Trailer