Fresh off her triumphant encore as Gale Weathers in“Scream,” Courteney Cox returns to the horror/comedy genre in the Starz limited series “Shining Vale,” and she delivers a knockout performance as The Woman in the Attic Who Takes Too Many Pills and Is Haunted by a Horny Ghost.
In fact, Cox’s work turns out to be the best thing in this uneven and tonally inconsistent series, as the intriguing premise doesn’t totally pan out. “Shining Vale” never fully commits to being a full-out parody a la the recent Kristen Bell-starring Netflix series “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window,” but is just too ridiculous to create any true dramatic tension beyond the usual horror movie jump-scare moments. (Somehow, amidst all the wildly over-the-top hijinks in “The Woman …” we actually found ourselves invested in seeing the mystery solved.)
