Widow’s Bay

“Widow’s Bay is billed as a comedy-horror, but is it even scary or funny? When you witness a ghoulish figure climbing onto Loftis in his reclining chair, then getting catapulted over to the far wall, it’s both. I particularly enjoyed the “clown killer” episode, but overall this is nothing like the slapstick of Shaun of the Dead; it’s more creepy than comical. In fact I don’t think comedy is a helpful word in setting expectations. Rather it’s a bit of an oddity as over (an overlong) ten episodes the plot takes detours.”
James Jackson, The Times

“The local eccentrics and the useless employees are not there for colour: they are full-blooded characters and they are the community. They have their troubles and their joys as well as their oddities and idiosyncrasies. Patricia is a study in awkwardness and loneliness, both of which are made worse by her ostracism over the years by the girls – now women – she went to high school with. They think she lied for attention about being approached by the man who killed several of their friends. There are many ways, Widow’s Bay suggests, to be haunted – and many ways for evil to creep through a community. Like the best horror, it suggests that the supernatural may be the least of it. In short, Widow’s Bay is rich and wonderful. Grownup, funny, scary, true – Mare of Easttown meets Schitt’s Creek, but with something else that makes it singular. Come on in. The water’s infested with sea hags, but lovely.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian