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Series Details & Credits
| Starz | Release Date: March 6, 2022 |
Summary:
Pat and Terry Phelps (Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear) move from a small Brooklyn apartment into a Victorian mansion with a terrible history in Shining Vale, Connecticut in this horror comedy series created by Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan.
Genre(s):
Comedy, Drama, Horror
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Positive:
11
Mixed:
5
Negative:
3
Oct 2, 2023
Season 2 Review:
The finale’s payoff also cleverly drives home the message that those genre-spurred frustrations are pointedly there so we didn’t forget that this is a story about a woman who is ignored. It also comes with some brilliant one-liners (“You can’t ever get rid of mental illness. That shit is like glitter,” Joan says in the premiere episode) and comes with a stacked cast of character actresses.
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Oct 10, 2023
Mar 3, 2022
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Mar 4, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Ultimately, Shining Vale wants to be a horror-comedy, but doesn’t go hard enough into either genre. ... Luckily, the characterizations by a talented cast are enough to draw you in and keep you entertained, even if Shining Vale's genre trappings leave a lot more to be desired.
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The Telegraph
Mar 7, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Shining Vale – which Horgan has co-written with Jeff Astrof – is billed as a comedy-horror but it hovers around in the space between the two because it’s neither screamingly funny nor remotely frightening. ... At least Shining Vale is attempting to tackle it in a light-hearted style, rather than bleak drama.
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Mar 4, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Rosemary, Joan, Pat and Gaynor represent unhappy women from four generations facing different kinds of societal pressures, internalizing dissatisfaction in similar ways. That element of the show is thoughtful and maybe even provocative, and in 28-minute episodic doses — critics have been sent seven of eight episodes — the intellectual points land often. The genre points, less frequently.
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May 14, 2022
This was fairly decent. The season had a Good start... weak middle... and strong ending. It's entertaining, camp, fun. Courtney is good and Mira is great. W
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Mar 13, 2022
The writing is reeeeeeally sloppy and inconsistent, making a show with someone from Friends and making it spooky means that audiences will watch it regardless. they shouldn't, really. Greg Kinnear is great, though. Overall, missed opportunity to talk about sex addiction and mental health.
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Jan 16, 2023
Shining Vale is neither funny or horror inspiring. Ms Cox delivers a lifeless and sub par performance, the writing is uninteresting, and the story while potentially interesting is ruined by the post modern cynical content that composes the only connective tissue of the show.
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