‘Widow’s Bay’ creator Katie Dippold

[caption id="attachment_161042" align="alignnone" width="359"] Photo: Daniel Speer - Maximum Fun 2026[/caption] Widow’s Bay is a new horror-comedy on Apple TV, named for the show’s setting: a small, picturesque island off the coast of New England. The tiny town on the island has it all: beautiful old buildings, charming seafood shacks, eccentric locals, and a dark, possibly supernatural past. The show uses plenty of humor, and it nods to the horror greats, but it is not a spoof. It’s earnestly scary! Katie Dippold created the show. She worked on Parks & Recreation, wrote the 2016 Ghostbusters revival, and wrote the 2013 action-comedy The Heat. Dippold joins Bullseye to talk about maintaining the delicate balance of horror and comedy on Widow’s Bay , writing movies that have been on the receiving-end of intense internet discourse, and being the person from twitter who dressed up like the babadook for a halloween party, and was the only one in costume.