Turns out Leslie Knope was one creative pivot away from battling a centuries-old curse. Widow's Bay creator Katie Dippold revealed that her hit Apple TV+ horror-comedy originally started as a Parks & Recreation spec script. Still, the Pawnee version was so joke-heavy that she isn't even sure she would've tuned in herself.
Widow’s Bay is basically Pawnee if the town’s biggest headache wasn’t Lil’ Sebastian’s memorial service, but an island crawling with supernatural horrors.
And instead of Knope’s relentless civic sunshine, you’ve got Matthew Rhys’ mayor as her dark alternate timeline—like Knope if her color-coded binders of optimism slowly got replaced by a centuries-old curse and the creeping realization that no amount of public service can save the town. Add in a deeply drawn ensemble of misfit locals, and the series lands somewhere between the earnest heart of Parks and Recreation and a full-throated, creeping horror story with teeth.
“I wrote it as a spec script for Parks & Recreation, but that version was much jokier,” she recently told Deadline. “It was more comedic, and I think it gave a good idea of my sense of humor. But I don’t know that I would have watched that show, because I think it could have felt more like a spoof, and as a horror fan, I just wanna be immersed into the island.”
In the quirkiest, most Knope-iest way, Dippold explained how she wanted to actually feel the isolation of being on a New England island that she wanted to "feel like I could go explore this island and find all the little nooks and crannies and terrifying little spots. That’s my dream, but I’m strange. So, that’s sort of how it started.”
She continued: “I would say the initial spark is a feeling I’ve been trying to capture ever since childhood—I always talk about going to this boardwalk in New Jersey in Long Branch. Once a summer, I would go with my family, and when I say I was way too young for it, I mean I was like 6, and this place was lawless and terrifying. But I loved it. I was just so giddy, the anticipation of going in, and I would scream and I would laugh."
Dippold added, “And then once we left, I’d run out screaming, but then I would immediately want to go back in again. It was almost kind of a dangerous excitement. I used to get into all sorts of antics when I was young, me and my friends going to check out the abandoned house and then running off, and I just love that feeling because you’re so scared, but you’re laughing so hard, and I just wanted to get that feeling on television. So, that’s sort of where it started."
The Widow's Bay Season 1 finale is available to stream on Wednesday, June 17, on Apple TV+.
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