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- Starz
- Mar 6, 2022
- Starz
- Mar 6, 2022
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
- Starz
- Mar 6, 2022
- Starz
- Mar 6, 2022
Shining Vale
Season 1
Season Premiere: Mar 6, 2022
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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
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Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
61
50% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
31% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
19% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
The best scary stories find their frights in real-life fears, and the genre is rich with ones that explore the feminine grotesque—Black Swan and Rosemary’s Baby come to mind. Shining Vale brings humor to that equation, both laughing at and dramatizing the scary aspects of gender norms. The result is a show that’s smart enough to keep viewers guessing as it pokes fun at modern society, its characters, and even its audience.
Even when the laughs don't land in Shining Vale, it's a pleasure to watch Cox as this fierce, funny embodiment of misunderstood and maligned female "hysteria."
Creators Jeff Astrof (Trial & Error) and Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe) front-load Shining Vale‘s least original elements, at the expense of the witty raunch that is Horgan’s trademark. ... Suffice to say that if you can hang on until episode 3, you’ll find a stranger, more amusing haunted-house story lurking behind all the peeling wallpaper.
Shining Vale – which Horgan has co-written with Jeff Astrof – is billed as a comedy-horror but it hovers around in the space between the two because it’s neither screamingly funny nor remotely frightening. ... At least Shining Vale is attempting to tackle it in a light-hearted style, rather than bleak drama.
Bolstered by a star turn from Cox and some fun throwbacks pitched alongside new takes on horrors past, this messy but fun genre mash-up makes for entertaining viewing.
“Shining Vale” is a murder mystery without much mystery, a family comedy with barely either, and a horror story only so far as it cribs from genre classics with a few extra hyperactive cuts.
All snark and no wit makes this miserable misfire of a horror comedy a chore to even describe. [14 - 27 Mar 2022, p.7]
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