Matthew Rhys – a 51-year-old bloke from Cardiff – has made Emmys history. Never before has an actor won in two different categories, but Rhys took home awards for lead actor in a comedy series (Widow’s Bay) and lead actor in a limited or anthology series or movie (The Beast in Me), thanking the “small but mighty nation” of Wales in his speeches. The statues going home with Rhys will join his other Emmy, lead actor in a drama series, for his performance as a Russian spy in The Americans. The guy’s got range.
The Beast in Me is standard Emmys fare. Rhys plays a charismatic estate agent who has a dodgy past – specifically, he has been accused of murdering his wife. As Nile, he’s enigmatic, slippery, charming, and gives a layered performance that not only keeps his neighbour (played by the equally electric Claire Danes, who was also nominated for the show) guessing his intentions, but also us at home.
However brilliant, The Beast in Me isn’t the Emmy-winning comedy horror you should press play on first. That honour falls to the much stranger, more left-field, and frankly much better, Widow’s Bay.
Rhys plays Tom Loftis, mayor of a cursed town who is desperate to turn its fortunes around (Photo: Apple TV)While it’s been a huge hit in the States, this excellent comedy-horror has received little attention here. Perhaps because it’s on Apple TV, which – despite being the one of the best streamers given its quality over quantity ethos – most casual TV viewers don’t subscribe to. Maybe it’s because the phrase “comedy horror” reminds us of the outdated world of Scary Movie or runs the risk of straying too far into one genre. And yet it somehow manages to be both genuinely scary and utterly side-splitting.
Rhys plays Tom Loftis, mayor of an ailing seaside town on an island in picturesque New England – Widow’s Bay – that could do with a tourism boost. Just one problem: the island is cursed. Ghosts, murderers, and killer clowns have all been spotted, and anyone who was born there dies almost immediately if they leave its foggy waters. But Loftis, ever the optimist, is determined to get people from the mainland to visit – even if it means breaking the curse himself.
If it sounds a bit silly, that’s because it’s supposed to be. Because with every jump-scare and walk down a dark, spooky corridor comes a joke – and they run the gamut from sarcastic under-the-breath comments to full on physical slapstick. Tonally, Widow’s Bay should be all over the place, but somehow it works. There’s no telling where the show will go next – and that’s where the magic lies.
Kate O’Flynn also won an Emmy for her role as Loftis’s oddball assistant Patricia (Photo: Apple TV)Most of that is down to Rhys. Loftis, like the viewer, starts out as a sceptic, only to discover the curse is real. You know how it is, one minute you’re trying to convince a New York Times reporter your town is “the next Martha’s Vineyard and definitely not cursed”, the next you’re chucking a reanimated, potty-mouthed, exhumed corpse off a fisherman’s boat in the middle of the night. Rhys approaches it all with a sincerity that only adds to the off-kilter tenor of the entire thing – the scene in which he launches the “Sea Hag” across the room via a La-Z-Boy armchair is alone worthy of the Emmy.
That’s to say nothing of his incredible co-stars, particularly Kate O’Flynn, who – like Rhys – happens to be from the UK (Bury, to be precise) and won an Emmy for her performance as Loftis’s oddball assistant Patricia. Ostensibly she’s there to bring a little levity to the story, leaning into the “comedy” rather than the “horror”. Still, she ends up hosting a cocktail party that turns into a cultish suicide pact, and being chased around town by a serial killer known as the Boogeyman. And yet the worst thing she has to face are her childhood bullies.
Widow’s Bay is that rare show that deserves the hype. It’s inventive, bold, original, refreshing – it’s not a police procedural or a true crime or a dystopian workplace drama or a teen romance; there’s simply nothing else like it. If you only watch one new show this year, make it this one.
‘Widow’s Bay‘ is on Apple TV
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