Shining Vale (2022)

Watchseries; After watching the first two episodes I am ready for more. It's not fantastic but definitely watchable.

Honestly, I think it is Courteney Cox's best work. I was never a Friends fan and everything after that, other than maybe Scream, was worse.

The writing is witty, dry and funny. Pretty much what you would expect from Sharon Horgan. I can't say that it is spooky but I don't get the sense it is meant to be. It is more of a quirky, silly and suspenseful story about a midlife crisis.

After watching the first two episodes I am ready for more. It's not fantastic but definitely watchable.

Honestly, I think it is Courteney Cox's best work. I was never a Friends fan and everything after that, other than maybe Scream, was worse.

The writing is witty, dry and funny. Pretty much what you would expect from Sharon Horgan. I can't say that it is spooky but I don't get the sense it is meant to be. It is more of a quirky, silly and suspenseful story about a midlife crisis.

Shining Vale watchseries. Don't really understand the low rating this show gets. It's got a snappy script, well executed by the cast. It is a very classic sorry but embraced in it's fullness. It's a bit silly and a bit serious, but anyone watching it should never forget that this is intended to be silly. I like it and plan to finish the season as it unveils. I don't expect amazing twists and turns, just an enjoyable ride.

The set-up is very standard - and has been since the 1980's: Yuppie parents want to get away from it all and reconnect as a family so they bring their disaffected city kids to a spooky old house in the country. The problem is Mom is hallucinating... or is she?

Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear are both fast approaching 60 - Cox's face shows every day of it - and way too old to be playing the parents of high school kids. And after two episodes, we don't know any more about who these people are and why we should care about them than we learned from the trailer.

Frankly, I am mystified - the show is not funny, it's not scary, the characters are caricatures, and if they all get killed and eaten by the ghosts, so much the better. I walked away from the first two episodes thinking, "Well, there's two hours of my life I'll never get back again."

I rated this a 3 out of 10 because I don't want to completely torpedo it too soon. Maybe it just got off to a bad start. But I'm really not holding out much hope for this one.

I was very much looking forward to this new series, especially after seeing some of my favorite actors from the past in this cast. I simply couldn't waste my time after about 20 minutes of the first episode. The characters aren't likable, the potty mouth dialogue is juvenile, and the characterization of depression in general is over-the-top. I'm really sad to say that this is a no go for me :(

I'm really enjoying the lightness & comedy of this series. I'm having a lot of laugh out loud moments!! 😊. Loving the characters, especially the teenage daughter, but really, all of them. Well done!!

Take a whiskey shot whenever Courtney Cox unnecessarily and inappropriately uses the f-word. Then check yourself into the nearest emergency room for alcohol poisoning

The same goes for the kids too. It's as if nobody has a filter on what they are saying, regardless of the situation.

To the writers: This is lazy and distracting. If you were going for edgy, you failed.