Mare of Easttown meets Schitt\u2019s Creek in this rich, wonderful and laugh-out-loud series, in which a put-upon mayor tries to turn a cursed New England island into a tourist hotspot<\/p>\n
What do you do if you want your charming little island off the coast of New England to become the next Martha\u2019s Vineyard, but it\u2019s full of legends about local cannibalism, sea hags, clown killers, poison fog and boogeymen who slaughter teenage girls in their beds? And what if it is<\/em> full of sea hags, poisoned fog and clown killers, which doesn\u2019t bode well for the mythical status of the cannibalism and boogeyman tales?<\/p>\n Such is the dilemma posed by Widow\u2019s Bay for its mayor, Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys), in a 10-part series that in the very best way defies categorisation. Horror may be its most obvious element, but it is so much more than that. Still, for fans of that genre, the writer-creator Katie Dippold and Hiro Murai, the director of the first five episodes, which set the tone, deliver the goods, lovingly covering most of the tropes.<\/p>\n
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