A 12 months after Shining Vale was canceled by Starz and faraway from the streamer’s library, the present two seasons of the sequence, starring Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear, can be found for streaming once more, this time on Max.
The Warner Bros. Discovery streamer picked up the 2 seasons of horror comedy, produced by sibling Warner Bros. Tv which on the time of the December 2023 cancellation tried to discover a new dwelling for it.
Season 1 of Shining Vale, from creators Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan, adopted Pat (Cox) and Terry Phelps (Kinnear), a married couple who money of their life financial savings and transfer from a cramped Brooklyn condo to an previous Victorian mansion in Connecticut, as a last-ditch effort to avoid wasting their marriage. Doorways slam, the piano performs by itself and when an old-fashioned-looking lady seems to hover outdoors the household window, Pat believes that she goes loopy — or worse. Each household has its demons, however for the Phelps, theirs could also be actual.
Season 2 picked up after the chaotic Season 1 finale when Pat lands herself in a psychiatric hospital for attempting to homicide her household with an ax. Whereas there, she went by means of in depth electroshock remedy, and when she returns dwelling, she meets a mysterious lady who introduces her to a number of historic cures used to “treatment” girls of despair, together with the apocryphal Smile Masks. In the meantime, the Phelpses continued to be haunted by ghosts whereas Pat struggled to stay with psychological sickness in a damaged household, battling demons each internally and externally.
The sequence additionally stars Mira Sorvino, Gus Birney, Merrin Dungey and Dylan Gage, with options Judith Gentle, Allison Tolman and Sherilyn Fenn.
Shining Vale was govt produced by Astrof from Different Shoe Productions, Horgan and Clelia Mountford from Merman and Aaron Kaplan and Melanie Frankel from Kapital Leisure. Cox additionally served as a producer. Warner Bros. Tv co-produced with Lionsgate Tv in affiliation with Different Shoe Productions, Merman and Kapital Leisure.
