{"id":2465111,"date":"2026-06-18T09:37:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2465111"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:37:47","slug":"stephen-king-shares-his-thoughts-on-widows-bay-and-maximum-pleasure-guaranteed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stephen-king-shares-his-thoughts-on-widows-bay-and-maximum-pleasure-guaranteed\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King shares his thoughts on &#8216;Widow&#8217;s Bay&#8217; and &#8216;Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article\">\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/stephen-king\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">Stephen King<\/a> has been on a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/stephen-king-horror-movie-recommendations-2025\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">TV and movie recommendation spree<\/a> over the past couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday the horror master <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/stephen-king-obsession-review\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">shared his thoughts on <em>Obsession<\/em><\/a>, and on Wednesday he turned his attention to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/widows-bay-review\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\"><em>Widow&#8217;s Bay<\/em><\/a>. The popular Apple TV horror show about a creepy New England island has just streamed its <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/widows-bay-finale-bells-explainer\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">finale<\/a>, and \u2014 given that the show had been <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/widows-bay-review-best-tv-shows-2026-1235553261\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">described<\/a> as a &#8220;Stephen King mixtape&#8221; \u2014 it&#8217;s no big surprise that the author himself tuned in and posted a review on X.<\/p>\n<p>As for King&#8217;s thoughts?<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex mx-auto mt-8 w-full max-w-3xl font-sans text-lg leading-normal md:text-xl md:leading-7\">\n        <span class=\"font-bold text-primary-400\">SEE ALSO:<\/span><br \/>\n        <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/widows-bay-review\" class=\"flex items-center text-secondary-300\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"ml-1\">&#8216;Widow&#8217;s Bay&#8217; review: Your new favorite TV town awaits in this tremendous horror comedy<\/span><br \/>\n            <svg class=\"ml-1 w-4 h-4 font-normal fill-current\"><use href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/images\/icons\/spritemap.svg#sprite-arrow-right-thin\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<p>Overall it sounds like he enjoyed it, although he did take the opportunity to shout out <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/maximum-pleasure-guaranteed-review-apple-tv\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">another show<\/a> he&#8217;s enjoying even more.<\/p>\n<section x-data=\"window.newsletter({ isDeal: false })\" x-init=\"init()\" aria-label=\"Newsletter Sign-Up\" class=\"relative invisible my-12 mx-auto w-full max-w-3xl md:my-16 ziff-component accent-cut-for-gradient-bg accent-cut-border-for-gradient-bg bg-gradient-fuchsia-secondary p-[2px]\">\n<p>\n            <span class=\"text-gradient-fuchsia-secondary\">Mashable Top Stories<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&#8220;WIDOW&#8217;S BAY is good,&#8221; King wrote on X. &#8220;MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED is even better. It&#8217;s like Hitchcock came back to do it one more time. And Tatiana Maslany is so good. The play of emotions on her face is pretty incredible. She goes from comic to terror in an instant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitterEmbed twitter-tweet\"><p>\n    <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-gray-600\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/2067386304661246152\" title=\"(Opens in a new tab) (opens in a new window)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n        This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.<br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/maximum-pleasure-guaranteed-review-apple-tv\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\"><em>Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed<\/em><\/a> is a dark comedy\/crime thriller that follows Paula (Tatiana Maslany), a divorced fact-checker who witnesses an apparent kidnapping while on a call with a cam boy (Brandon Flynn).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maslany and series creator David J. Rosen have crafted a compelling trainwreck of a character, one whom you&#8217;ll want to follow to the ends of the earth,&#8221; wrote Mashable&#8217;s Belen Edwards in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/maximum-pleasure-guaranteed-review-apple-tv\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">her review<\/a>. &#8220;Or at the very least, the end of 10 pulse-pounding episodes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/zdcs.link\/z7RqeL?pageview_type=Standard&amp;template=article&amp;module=content_body&amp;element=offer&amp;item=text-link&amp;element_label=Maximum%20Pleasure%20Guaranteed%20is%20now%20streaming%20on%20Apple%20TV&amp;object_type=article&amp;object_uuid=05wnElySAE7njQBROLyb8BG&amp;short_url=z7RqeL&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle-route-prefix%2Fentertainment%2Fstephen-king-widows-bay-maximum-pleasure-guaranteed&amp;session_uuid=c9f3f82d-3bde-472c-ba12-e0be280bd28f&amp;view_instance_uuid=cd260d48-ee6f-482e-ae1c-1feffb85412b\" rel=\"sponsored\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\"><em>Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed<\/em> is now streaming on Apple TV<\/a>, as is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/zdcs.link\/9YRgW4?pageview_type=Standard&amp;template=article&amp;module=content_body&amp;element=offer&amp;item=text-link&amp;element_label=Widow%27s%20Bay&amp;object_type=article&amp;object_uuid=05wnElySAE7njQBROLyb8BG&amp;short_url=9YRgW4&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle-route-prefix%2Fentertainment%2Fstephen-king-widows-bay-maximum-pleasure-guaranteed&amp;session_uuid=903ef983-e130-4f3b-baf8-c0245b0ad44e&amp;view_instance_uuid=700bc85d-cf04-4c1f-afbd-fc90dedb7000\" rel=\"sponsored\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\"><em>Widow&#8217;s Bay<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"mx-auto max-w-7xl\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-wrap mt-8 w-full font-sans subtitle-2 editor-content\">\n<p>\n        <span class=\"mr-1.5 font-sans font-bold\">Topics<\/span><br \/>\n                    <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"underline-link hover:no-underline text-secondary-300 mr-1.5\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/stephen-king\" aria-label=\"Navigate to the Stephen King tag\" data-ga-click=\"\" data-ga-label=\"$text\">Stephen King<\/a><br \/>\n                    <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"underline-link hover:no-underline text-secondary-300 \" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/apple-tv\" aria-label=\"Navigate to the Apple TV tag\" data-ga-click=\"\" data-ga-label=\"$text\">Apple TV<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source mashable.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen King has been on a TV and movie recommendation spree over the past couple of days. On Tuesday the horror master shared his thoughts on Obsession, and on Wednesday he turned his attention to Widow&#8217;s Bay. The popular Apple TV horror show about a creepy New England island has just streamed its finale, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2465112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2465111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Stephen-King-shares-his-thoughts-on-Widows-Bay-and-Maximum.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465113,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465111\/revisions\/2465113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2465112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}