Widow’s Bay (2026)
Just finished Apple’s Widow’s Bay and liked it a lot.
Matthew Rhys is excellent in it (I was already a fan from The Americans) and, with Stephen Root and Kate O’Flynn, he makes a highly effective trio with lots of chemistry on show.
There have been plenty of little-town america horror-mistery stories and series, it is a proven formula and in this case, although farcical at times, it works.
It’s more mistery than horror, the jumpscares are few and far apart, the misteries instead just keep getting deeper.
It has elements of Lost in it (the island, the hatch…) I hope it will be different this time.
Episode 4, Beach Reads, is what sold me on it and probably the high of the season, it works so well as a self contained story.