Guillermo del Toro Says Apple TV's 'Widow's Bay' Is the Real Deal

Guillermo del Toro Says Apple TV's 'Widow's Bay' Is the Real Deal

Guillermo del Toro has thrown his weight behind Widow's Bay, the Apple TV horror-comedy that premiered in April and has already become one of the streamer's most talked-about shows. Created by Katie Dippold, the series follows a cursed New England town — each episode peeling back another layer of the curse — with Matthew Rhys playing mayor Tom Loftis, a man desperately trying to turn the island into a tourist destination before the curse makes him its next project. On May 30, del Toro posted that the show "may very well be the best streaming series in a long time" and called it "one of the most mesmerizing acts of narrative prestidigitation in Horror."

Gobble's Take: When the king of horror personally moves something to the front of the queue, you move it to the front of the queue. Source: Collider

Robert Pattinson Has Receipts for the Batman Body Critics

Robert Pattinson has a message for everyone who said he didn't work out for The Batman: he did. In a GQ interview, the actor pushed back on the backlash, saying he "worked out every fucking day" during filming for the 2022 movie — sometimes twice a day, at three in the morning. He chalked up the criticism partly to his own big mouth, admitting his past comments made exercise sound uncool. Meanwhile, he's since installed a home gym in his Beverly Hills house to prepare for The Batman: Part II, though he confessed he still hadn't received an actual filming schedule.

Gobble's Take: Trained twice a day at 3 a.m. and still had to defend himself. The court of public opinion is truly undefeated. Source: Hollywood Reporter

'The Boys' Went Out the Only Way It Knew How

Collider is making the case that The Boys stuck the landing — describing a finale that "went out the way that it lived: loud, bloody, and utterly uncompromising." The Prime Video show's ending is framed as pretty much perfect: a dead Homelander, a broken and dead Butcher, and a team scattered to the wind — with zero apologies for any of it. In a TV landscape full of finales that limp across the finish line, this one apparently sprinted through a wall.

Gobble's Take: Some shows fade to black. This one apparently kicked the door off the hinges on the way out. Source: Collider

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