A haunted house is the least of one family's problems in Shining Vale, a horror comedy that treats a failing marriage and a stalled career as just as dangerous as anything lurking in the walls.
What is Shining Vale about?
Courteney Cox stars as a novelist who relocates her family from the city to a rambling old house in a small town, hoping the change of scenery will fix a marriage running on fumes and a writing career that has gone quiet. The house comes with a past, and soon strange presences start blurring the line between her haunted home and her own state of mind. Greg Kinnear plays her patient but frustrated husband, while Gus Birney and Dylan Gage round out the household as teenage kids who have their own theories about what is wrong with their mother. Mira Sorvino appears as a figure from the house's history who may or may not be entirely a hallucination, with Merrin Dungey and Judith Light filling out a supporting cast that keeps the tone tilting between genuine unease and dark, domestic comedy.
About the cast
Courteney Cox anchors the series with a performance that leans into comic exasperation as easily as dread, and Greg Kinnear gives the husband role real texture rather than playing a simple foil. Mira Sorvino's presence threads through the show as one of its stranger, more memorable elements, and the younger cast members hold their own against the more seasoned leads.
Context & significance
Shining Vale sits in the small but durable tradition of horror stories that use a haunted house as a stand-in for a haunted marriage, pairing genuine scares with a sharp eye for the absurdity of suburban dysfunction. The British-American production, directed by Dearbhla Walsh, blends the two genres without letting either one soften the other.
Watching Shining Vale on Ktime
Shining Vale streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking audiences can follow every domestic squabble and every unsettling turn in the house's history. Watching requires only a free K-Time account login, and the full series is available through the platform's Farsi-language interface built for Persian-speaking viewers.