'Widow's Bay' Is the Coolest Show on TV

I want to scream from mountaintops how great this Matthew Rhys-led Apple TV show is.

Matthew Rhys and Stephen Root/Apple TV

There’s an experience that happens rarely when watching television. It takes a singular kind of show to elicit it. You watch it and sporadically let out a “ha!” or a “tee-hee-hee” outburst. You’re not cackling or giggling through, as you would to a laugh-out-loud comedy, and you’re not gasping repeatedly, the way a truly creepy horror series might have you doing. You’re just kind of generally tickled by the show.

I am tickled by Widow’s Bay.

The Apple TV series is what I am deeming the coolest show on TV. There is no scientific evidence or metrics for that. It’s just based on what a few people who I think are cool have said, and then, of course, my own personal feelings.

It stars Matthew Rhys—the coolest actor on TV—as Tom, the mayor of a New England island town who is desperate to turn it into a tourist destination, but keeps getting thwarted by the pesky little fact that it is probably (most definitely) haunted and cursed.