Linda Holmes

When you can take an episode and be like, this is part of a serialized narrative, but it has its own structure.

I think that works really well.

But again, you know, I think...

The cast packed with ringers is in a lot of ways the secret weapon.

You know, Stephen Root is doing everything here that you want to see Stephen Root do.

You know, it's kind of an average of everything Stephen Root has done in his life.

You get a little Jimmy James.

You get a little, you know, office space.

You get a little of this, little of that, little all over the place.

Definitely a little of the guy he recently played in the movie on Hulu, Mike and Nick and Nick and Nick.

Alice so all the MVPs Betty Gilpin keeps popping up in things you know she pops up in that JLo rom-com office romance that they have right now she's kind of the assistant she keeps popping up it's always welcome I love to see her she elevates everything she's in and she elevates this as well so to me it's a good show solid bones you know but then just studded with this like

Dale Dickey is really there to do a big scene late in the series, a big and important scene.

And she just gets every single drop out of that scene.

Yeah, well, we've got more to say about Widows Bay after this little break.

Welcome back.

Glenn, what are you thinking about?

I think I responded to both.

As I said, I don't think I responded to either half of it quite as much as some people have.

I know so many people who this is immediately their favorite show of the year.

To me, it is a show I really like.