The best new show of 2026 is Widow’s Bay. That should not be in dispute. It’s new, inventive, and twisty, and it combines horror with a very specific brand of small-town comedy in a way that’s never really been done on television. Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed is also very good. It is not, as Stephen King recently suggested, better than Widow’s Bay. That’s particularly high praise coming from King, given his own fingerprints on Widow’s Bay.