Wilson Chapman editor“Shining Vale” takes its time before it properly introduces the audience to Mira Sorvino’s Rosemary. The Starz horror comedy focuses on Pat (Courteney Cox) and Terry (Greg Kinnear) Phelps, a couple in a strained marriage, as they move from New York City to the titular Connecticut suburb in an effort to find stability.
Their quest, however, is doomed to fail — because they’ve moved into a house haunted by Rosemary (Mira Sorvino), the spirit of a ’50s housewife who schemes to use Pat to live the uninhibited life she never could.In classic horror fashion, though, the show very slowly teases out its villain.
In the first episode, Sorvino has only a single line. It takes a full three episodes before she has a proper, full-length scene with Cox, and even then, her presence in the show is deployed sparingly, rarely appearing for extended periods of time.
It may seem like a thankless role for the Oscar-winner, beloved for her turn in the cult-classic “Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion,” and well-known in recent years as a significant figure in the #MeToo movement.
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