4 min read IF YOU WERE the mayor of a cute little island town in New England, and just wanted to make it both a nice place for residents to live and a great vacationing spot for everyone… that wouldn’t be such a bad life, right? Well, what if you had a peanut gallery of local characters who kept trying to get in your way and make life difficult? And what if some of those local characters started insisting that your cute little New England island town was actually haunted, run amok by ghouls, hags, creatures, and books of evil magic? And what if they turned out to be right ? That’s the basic premise of Apple TV’s Widow’s Bay, a show that brings the spooky New England horror aesthetic of Stephen King together with the “head in the sand” themes of Jaws and the kooky little town nature of Parks and Recreation. It’s the type of pure, seamless, genre mash-up we haven’t seen since Bill Hader’s masterful Barry —and it’s also the best show on TV right now.…