Widow's Bay

Widow’s Peak is rich and wonderful. Grownup, funny, scary, true – Mare of Easttown meets Schitt’s Creek, but with something else that makes it singular.

Widow’s Bay plays like a mixtape of the Master of the Macabre’s work, compiling stock horror archetypes and scenarios before running them through a mondo bizarro filter.

A charmingly ghoulish saga about a locale beset by the sins of the past. It’s also, to date, the best new show of the year.

This is a comedy that would sink or swim based on its lead performances. And it’s owing to Rhys that this ends up being such a buoyant show.

It doesn’t aim for the grandiose allegory or psychological character development that defines so much “elevated horror,” nor does it chasten its sense of humor to appeal to a wide-ranging audience. Instead, like any good vacation spot, it focuses on simply giving its guests a good time.

At first, you might not be so sure that you've chosen the right travel destination, but Widow's Bay becomes a haunting, deeply rewarding, and oddly charming series if you stick with it.

The failure to flesh out the population of Widow’s Bay beyond a handful of characters doesn’t just undermine its sense of place. It deprives the show of something every good horror story needs: victims. Although the season grows eerier as Tom discovers more of the island’s dreadful backstory, it’s rare that anything terrible happens to anyone we truly care about.

Best show I’ve seen all year. It’s a perfect blend of creepy and funny. The acting is perfect

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Has some fun and clever moments here and there, the actors and performances are fine, yet somehow, it never reaches out of its rather middling impression.

The writing is garbage. The characters are pure archetypes with no depth whatsoever: from the moment they first appear, you know who's going to do what. The result is zero suspense. Everything is mapped out in advance, it's easy to read between the lines, and you can guess every twist long before it **** acting, on the other hand, is very good: the cast delivers a great performance and almost manages to bring these flat characters to life. The one exception is the actor playing the sheriff, who is frankly **** I don't understand how this series managed to win 14 Emmys, including Best Comedy Series and Best Writing. It's as if the bar is so low that a mediocre show can sweep that many awards. Humanity is truly doomed.

Nice premise but it bored me. I tried really hard to like it but it just bored me. It’s a nonsense storyline. It can be scary in a few spots but it’s not funny. If a horror comedy struggles to be scary it’s not ever going to manage funny. It just made me cringe.