Hello, welcome back to the Prestige TV podcast, me and I'm Jordan Robinson. I'm Rob Mahoney. And we're here not to cover the top secret episode of The Bear that just dropped mere, I don't know, moments ago on Hulu. Why didn't anyone tell us? That's what our secrets are for. I guess. We're here to cover Widows Bay, episodes one through three. We asked, y'all answered, you wanted us to cover Widows Bay.

We were, of course, covering Euphoria all month. We were like, what else should we be watching?

And Widows Bay is just a fun show, a comedy horror show, if you haven't seen it on good old Apple.

And we're going to be checking in sporadically, I will say. That's what I want to

commit to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, can I tell you and our listeners a secret, Joe?

Please. Even if they hadn't emailed us in spades and they did, I think I would have demanded

that we cover the show in some form. After watching a couple of that, you preempted my demand with your demand. Yes. So we like to give people the illusion of power, right? Like, this is a democracy, but let's be real about it. We want to go to Widows Bay. Rob, I'm so excited that when I, like, texted you last week, you're like, but what if we record, like, tomorrow? I was like, let's come down. I'm proposing frankly irresponsible recording schedules, but the show has been very jazzed.

I'm really loving it so far.

When did you?

So, spoilers, I guess, up through episode three.

If you guys haven't watched up through episode three, that's what we're going to be talking

about.

We're kind of, you know, it's a 30 minute plus comedy horror show.

It's not necessarily our usual Prestige TV fair, so there isn't, I don't know, as much thematic density or something like that as some of the other shows we've covered.

So we're going to do some of our, what we do sometimes on these little like binge-drop check-ins is we're going to have some categories that we're going to go through towards the end. But we did want to have a general discussion. PrestiHGV at Spotify.com is how you can email us for this show. We're not creating a special email for the show yet. Those are the rules. But press tchTV at Spotify.com, if you have suggestions for categories, we should do. I would love to hear those. I feel like our listeners are really, really good at those. So if you guys have categories that we should check in on the future check-ins for Widows Bay, let us know. When did you, Rob Mahoney, other than me texting you, being like, I regret to inform you, Widows Bay Slaps, when did you know you were in on Widows Bay? I mean, the opening of episode one is like appropriately spooky. And frankly, like doing horror on TV is such a tough enterprise. And it's so difficult, I think, just to get people in their living rooms to feel it, to feel the tension. And so I was on board with that. But I think it's when Tom gets to City Hall for the first time. And we start seeing the cast of characters who are working there. It's like, oh, this is like on, like, the patter is like on a rhythm that I'm like really resonating with. And so even if the show turns out not to be spooky and scary in the ways I might like or that it's trying to be, it's at least going to be really funny. I do want to give our producer Kai Grady some credit because he's been on The Widows Baby, like, hey, did you guys see this trailer? Hey, what do you guys think of this show? So shout out Kai. I will say, I feel like starring Matthew Reese is where they really got me. That's where they really got me. Co-starring Stephen Root. Yeah. Oh my gosh. But this is from Kitty DiPold, who worked on Parks and Recreation. You can really tell. And that's a compliment inside of this show, as you said. The people who work at City Hall are just like extremely fun characters. And like to, I don't know what your experience was, freeze frame Mahoney, but like all of the chalkboards in the background just sort of like zooming in on what is on there.

I didn't see anything unusual.

It's all straight business.

It was like, repair the curb and like paint this and move the tree.

Wi-Fi was one of the agenda items.

Actually, this is one of the strengths of the show, though.

It's like they play everything so straight for the

most part. And I think it walks this really delicate balance between there's people at City Hall,

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