Shining Vale
msn.comShining Vale, Starz’ new horror comedy co-created by Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe) and Jeff Astrof (Trial & Error), that’s the point.
Leaning into clichés in order to answer the question “What if The Shining was a sitcom starring Courteney Cox?”, this eight-part series (served in bingeable, thirty-minute morsels) juggles jump scares and jokes at a rate of knots, whilst trying to dissect the ways in which women’s trauma is so often either demonised or dismissed out of hand.
It’s not as funny as BBC’s Ghosts, as scary as Netflix’s Haunting duology, or as clever as either, but it has got some spirit.
Flexing her formidable comedic chops while keying into a wounded vulnerability we’ve not really seen from her before, Cox stars — and shines — as Patricia Phelps, an erotic fiction author who’s been struggling with writer’s block and depression since going teetotal after her smash debut novel’s release 17 years ago.
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