With 19 Emmy nominations under its belt for its first season, Betty Gilpin sees Widow’s Bay as a beacon of wholly original television.
The 4x Emmy nominee, whose latest Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy series nod is for her performance as Sarah Warren in the Apple TV series, praised the show for figuring out “what people fucking want” amid the ongoing IP-driven malaise in Hollywood.
“I feel like because I’m not an actual part of the real show, I can brag about it and it’s not bragging about myself,” she told IndieWire. “I’m so glad that the exhausted people that I worked with who were like, ‘I hope we made something good. I don’t know. I’m so tired,’ they made the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen.”
Gilpin continued, “The show as a whole feels like the ultimate fuck you to safe, algorithm-friendly, ChatGPT, copy/paste television. And yet, it’s found such mainstream success, and that’s what people fucking want. It’s just so satisfying.”
In Widow’s Bay, a New England mayor (Matthew Rhys) tries to boost tourism to his tiny island as strange events unfold, unleashing a centuries-old curse.
Creator Katie Dippold inked an overall deal with Apple TV as the streamer renewed Widow’s Bay for Season 2, ahead of the Season 1 finale, which is now available to stream.
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