‘Widow’s Bay’ Just Made Emmy History—and Horror Fans Should Be Celebrating

My favorite show of the year just cleaned up at the Emmys. And yes, it’s a horror show.

Widow’s Bay won 14 Emmy Awards, including six at last night’s ceremony and eight at the earlier Creative Arts Emmys. That breaks the single-season comedy record previously held by The Studio, which won 13 last year.

Even better, TheWrap identifies it as the first horror series to win Outstanding Comedy Series.

Horror is fucking king.

One of the biggest surprises of the year, Katie Dippold’s series feels like a season-long celebration of Stephen King, John Carpenter, and the filmmakers who understood that a familiar little town could hold an awful lot of darkness. There’s a sprawling mystery rooted in the island’s history, but the individual episodes keep finding different ways to scare the hell out of you.

Haunted hotels. Slashers. Folk horror. Something terrible hiding underneath everyday social awkwardness. To me, it’s got that Halloween and The Fog atmosphere, with a willingness to veer into something completely different from one episode to the next.