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- 2022
- TV-MA
- Starz
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Starz
Summary Pat and Terry Phelps (Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear) move from a small Brooklyn apartment into a Victorian mansion with a terrible history in Shining Vale, Connecticut in this horror comedy series created by Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan.
Created By: Jeff Astrof, Sharon Horgan
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Starz
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Starz
Shining Vale
Season 1 Premiere: Mar 6, 2022
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5.7
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Summary Pat and Terry Phelps (Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear) move from a small Brooklyn apartment into a Victorian mansion with a terrible history in Shining Vale, Connecticut in this horror comedy series created by Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan.
Created By: Jeff Astrof, Sharon Horgan
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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58% Positive
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26% Mixed
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5 Reviews
16% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
61
58% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
26% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
16% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
The finale’s payoff also cleverly drives home the message that those genre-spurred frustrations are pointedly there so we didn’t forget that this is a story about a woman who is ignored. It also comes with some brilliant one-liners (“You can’t ever get rid of mental illness. That shit is like glitter,” Joan says in the premiere episode) and comes with a stacked cast of character actresses.
“Shining Vale” has a honed sense of humor, usually (and especially) when it’s least expected. ... What’s more surprising about “Shining Vale” is how it ably counterbalances the writing’s comedic throughline with genuinely creepy touches of horror that might feel familiar to fans of the earlier, most effective seasons of “American Horror Story.”
User Score
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Based on 10 User Ratings
5.7
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 User Ratings
5.7
60% Positive
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20% Mixed
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Pat’s psychiatric facility, with its generically inky green light, screaming patients strapped to gurneys, and generally depressing air is pretty over the top, and a house creaking in its joints and beckoning people through suddenly open doors doesn’t really grab us. It’s almost like Shining Vale needs to go for the horror jugular first, before it integrates its solid jokes and noteworthy themes.
Ultimately, Shining Vale wants to be a horror-comedy, but doesn’t go hard enough into either genre. ... Luckily, the characterizations by a talented cast are enough to draw you in and keep you entertained, even if Shining Vale's genre trappings leave a lot more to be desired.
Rosemary, Joan, Pat and Gaynor represent unhappy women from four generations facing different kinds of societal pressures, internalizing dissatisfaction in similar ways. That element of the show is thoughtful and maybe even provocative, and in 28-minute episodic doses — critics have been sent seven of eight episodes — the intellectual points land often. The genre points, less frequently.
While the story whips up some acute psychological comedy about women in different generations experiencing and wrestling with the same mental illness, its supernatural attempts are junky. ... “Shining Vale” is the kind of series that just does not warrant its length, especially as its frugal supernatural points just barely nudge Pat to its larger scheme.
All snark and no wit makes this miserable misfire of a horror comedy a chore to even describe. [14 - 27 Mar 2022, p.7]
Production Company:
- Kapital Entertainment
- Lionsgate Television
- Merman
- Other Shoe Productions
- Warner Bros. Television
Initial Release Date: Mar 6, 2022
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Women's Image Network Awards
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
