Apple’s ‘Widow’s Bay’ Lands An Endorsement From A Horror Legend

InnovationGamingApple’s ‘Widow’s Bay’ Lands An Endorsement From A Horror LegendByPaul Tassi,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet.Follow AuthorJun 04, 2026, 11:08am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.Widow's BayAppleWe have just hit June, but it seems that we’ve already found one of the best new shows of 2026. That would be Widow’s Bay, on, surprise, surprise, Apple TV, which has the highest batting average of good-to-great shows of any streaming service out there.With a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score, Widow’s Bay lets star Matthew Rhys be hilarious for once after his years-long spy turn in The Americans or his recent murderer role The Beast in Me, Netflix’s biggest new show of the year. Widow’s Bay is also #1 on Apple’s top 10 list, currently.Rhys plays Tom Loftis, the mayor of a small island community that’s trying to attract tourists. Unfortunately, the island is haunted and the week-to-week curse rolls out horror tropes from ghost hotels to cult sacrifices to most recently, slasher films. In addition to Rhys, the show has made Kate O’Flynn’s Patricia a huge standout, taking point in two of those aforementioned episodes, one of which doesn’t feature Rhys at all.Widow's BayApple TVCritics and audiences aren’t the only ones who are loving Widow’s Bay. The show has just gotten an endorsement from horror director legend Guillermo del Toro, most recently of Frankenstein. Here’s what he tweeted:MORE FOR YOU"If I may - in my estimation – Widows Bay may very well be the best streaming series in a long time… and hands down one of the most mesmerizing acts of narrative prestidigitation in Horror.”While I had to look up what prestidigitation means (“the art of performing magic tricks or illusions using nimble hands and quick fingers”), he’s certainly right....