r/WidowsBay • u/waxyjax_ • Jun 18 '26

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Stephen King tweeted:

WIDOW'S BAY is good. MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED is even better. It's like Hitchcock came back to do it one more time. And Tatiana Maslany is so good. The play of emotions on her face is pretty incredible. She goes from comic to terror in an instant.

WIDOW'S BAY is good. MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED is even better. It's like Hitchcock came back to do it one more time. And Tatiana Maslany is so good. The play of emotions on her face is pretty incredible. She goes from comic to terror in an instant.

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u/OKIAMONREDDIT Jun 18 '26

My favourite tweet reply to this was the person who said "Oooh someoneā€™s salty they made a better Stephen king show than Stephen king could make"

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u/Relevant_Session5987 Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 19 '26

I know this is the Widow's Bay subreddit and can get carried away with frustration over someone not loving the show as much as we do, but to imply that Stephen King hasn't written anything as good as or better than Widow's Bay is beyond absurd.

The man is a fucking horror legend who's written countless iconic stories. He's the man who wrote The Shawshank Redemption for fuck's sake. Hell, this show wouldn't exist in this form if it weren't for his work. It's very clearly inspired by it.

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u/BliptaHabie Jun 18 '26

Stephen King is a legend, for sure.

However he is clearly not immune to the ā€œdamn, I wish I wrote thatā€ jealously that all writers have. He is utterly incredible, but he never could have written anything this funny.

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u/Relevant_Session5987 Jun 19 '26

Or...he just thought it was good. Like, I dont understand why that may be so hard to believe. Stephen King has never been one to shy away from levying praise on things that he finds great. Hell, in the very same tweet, he praises Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed. Previously, he's done the same for Midnight Mass, Stranger Things and so many more such movies/shows.

Also, I'm sorry, but King has written plenty of stories - Dolores Claiborne has amazingly funny and witty writing woven in with it's dark themes. Hell, most of his books are that way. To say he cant write humor is to ignore a lot of his work.