Widow's Bay

Widow's Bay is a New England island town living under a curse that has been going for centuries and shows no sign of easing up. It keeps producing fresh supernatural evils for the people who call the place home, which says a lot about how thoroughly it has settled in.

It sits as comedy and horror side by side, so the uncanny stuff shares space with something lighter rather than standing alone. That makes it a gentler kind of unsettled than a straight horror, the sort where the island's troubles are as much a running joke as a threat.

Katie Dippold created it, with Matthew Rhys among the cast trying to get on with life somewhere that keeps finding new ways to make that difficult.

Ten episodes, one island, one curse that clearly has no intention of lifting. Good for an evening when you want odd and cosy rather than genuinely rattled, ideally with a large mug of something warm.