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We have just hit June, but it seems that we\u2019ve already found one of the best new shows of 2026. That would be Widow\u2019s Bay<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> on, surprise, surprise, Apple TV, which has the highest batting average of good-to-great shows of any streaming service out there.<\/p>\n With a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score<\/a>, Widow\u2019s Bay<\/em> 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, <\/em>Netflix\u2019s biggest new show of the year. Widow\u2019s Bay<\/em> is also #1 on Apple\u2019s top 10 list, currently.<\/p>\n Rhys plays Tom Loftis, the mayor of a small island community that\u2019s 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\u2019Flynn\u2019s Patricia a huge standout, taking point in two of those aforementioned episodes, one of which doesn\u2019t feature Rhys at all.<\/p>\n Critics and audiences aren\u2019t the only ones who are loving Widow\u2019s Bay<\/em>. The show has just gotten an endorsement from horror director legend Guillermo del Toro, most recently of Frankenstein<\/em>. Here\u2019s what he tweeted<\/a>:<\/p>\n “If I may – in my estimation \u2013 Widows Bay may very well be the best streaming series in a long time\u2026 and hands down one of the most mesmerizing acts of narrative prestidigitation in Horror.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n While I had to look up what prestidigitation means (\u201cthe art of performing magic tricks or illusions using nimble hands and quick fingers\u201d), he\u2019s certainly right. While there are more and more horror series hitting streaming over time, including many all-time greats like Mike Flanagan\u2019s Netflix Hill House\/Bly Manor\/Midnight Mass <\/em>trio, Widow\u2019s Bay<\/em> is near the top of the pile. (Hilariously, Widow\u2019s Bay <\/em>cast Midnight Mass\u2019s<\/em> Hamish Linklater to be the cultish leader of its remote island community, the exact type of role he had in the Netflix show). <\/p>\n Widow\u2019s Bay<\/em> is not based on a book, and was created by Katie Dippold. She previously wrote on Parks and Recreation,<\/em> and wrote 2013\u2019s The Hea<\/em>t with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. She\u2019s also famous for one of the best tweets of all time:<\/p>\n While I may not be Guillermo del Toro, I cannot recommend the hilarious, often reasonably scary Widow\u2019s Bay <\/em>enough. Del Toro is right to classify it as one of the best shows of 2026, and looking at the grand scope of horror TV, he might be right about that larger pool as well. There are two episodes left, but you can catch up with the first eight on Apple TV right now. <\/p>\n Follow me <\/strong><\/em>on Twitter<\/u><\/strong><\/em><\/a>, <\/strong><\/em>YouTube<\/u><\/strong><\/em><\/a>,<\/u><\/strong><\/em><\/a> and <\/strong><\/em>Instagram<\/u><\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Pick up my sci-fi novels the <\/strong><\/em>Herokiller series<\/u><\/strong><\/em><\/a> and <\/strong><\/em>The Earthborn Trilogy<\/u><\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n