“Widow’s Bay” is a quaint island town 40 miles off the coast of New England. But something lurks beneath the surface. Mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) is desperate to revive his struggling community. There’s no Wi-Fi, spotty cellular reception and he must contend with superstitious locals who believe their island is cursed. He wants these people to respect him. They don’t. They think he is soft and cowardly. And he is. But Loftis is determined to build a better future for his teenage son and turn the island into a tourist destination. Miraculously, he succeeds: tourists are finally coming. Unfortunately, the locals were right. After decades of calm, the old stories that seemed too ludicrous to be true, start happening again. “Widow’s Bay” blends genuine horror with character-driven comedy.
Rebecca Onion for Slate (beware spoilers in the full review, but not in this excerpt below):
If you’re not already watching Widow’s Bay, you really should be.
As its growing legions of fans know, this is a show that refuses to submit to the sameness that marks streaming TV, offering instead a distinctive point of view that’s so confident, it dominates your attention. You cannot second-screen with phone or laptop while watching Widow’s Bay. You’d miss slapstick set pieces, on-point cultural references that work without being annoying (harder than it sounds!), props that each nail a single perfect in-universe joke, and dialogue showcasing the cast’s excellent comic timing.
All of this fun stuff is highly necessary, because without it, you’d be scared out of your wits. Bad things are afoot in Widow’s Bay — at every turn, there’s a cabin with an “X.”
MacDailyNews Take: So far, so good is Apple TV’s Widow’s Bay.
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