There are very few things more exciting to me than finding a new TV obsession – and in Apple TV's Widow's Bay, I've discovered just that. The new horror-comedy is set in the titular New England town, an island-based community that is struggling due to a distinct lack of tourists – oh, and a curse that has left it prone to all manner of terrifying supernatural phenomena.
The Americans' Matthew Rhys stars as Tom Loftis, the ambitious, slightly venal, mostly likable local mayor. He's heard all the rumours and legends and folktales, and he doesn't believe any of them. When he learns that a writer from the New York Times is due to visit, he spies a chance to put Widow's Bay back on the map. But doing so risks reigniting the evil that has long haunted the town.
