“Shining Vale” is a horror comedy about a dysfunctional family that moves from the city to a small town into a house in which terrible atrocities have taken place. But no one seems to notice except for Pat, who’s convinced she’s either depressed or possessed – turns out, the symptoms are exactly the same. Patricia “Pat” Phelps (Courteney Cox) is a former “wild child” who rose to fame by writing a raunchy, drug-and-alcohol-soaked women’s empowerment novel (a.k.a. lady porn). Fast forward 17 years later, Pat is clean and sober but totally unfulfilled. She still hasn’t written her second novel, she can’t remember the last time she had sex with her husband (Greg Kinnear), and her teenage kids are at that stage where they want you dead. She was a faithful wife until her one slip-up: she had a torrid affair with the hot, young handyman who came over to fix the sink while Terry was at work. In a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, she and Terry cash in all their savings and move the family from the “crazy” of the city to a large, old house in the suburbs that has a storied past of its own. Everyone has their demons, but for Pat Phelps, they may be real.
Cox plays the lead role of Patricia “Pat” Phelps, with Kinnear playing her ever-optimistic husband, Terry Phelps, whose patience and self-control will be tested like never before. Mira Sorvino plays Rosemary, who is either Pat’s alter ego, a split personality, her id, her muse, or a demon trying to possess her. Dungey plays Kam, Pat’s oldest friend and book editor. Gus Birney and Dylan Gage also star as Pat and Terry’s teenage kids, Gaynor and Jake.
Co-Creators
Jeff Astroff and Sharon Horgan
Executive Producers
Jeff Astroff, Sharon Horgan, Clelia Mountford, Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor, Dearbhla Walsh with Jill Blotevogel as Co-Executive Producer
Writers
Jeff Astrof, Jill Blotevogel, Julieanne Smolinkski, Lindsay Golder
Directors
Dearbhla Walsh, Alethea Jones, Catriona McKenzie, Liz Friedlander
Starring
Courteney Cox, Greg Kinnear, Gus Birney, Dylan Gage, Mira Sorvino and Merrin Dungey
Awards Won
WIN awards for:
Actress in a Comedy Series for Courteney Cox
Comedy Series
Woman of the Year for Merrin Dungey
Saturn awards for Best Fantasy Television Series: Network / Cable
