Director Hiro Murai Re-Ups FX First-Look Deal as His New Apple Horror-Comedy ‘Widow’s Bay’ Debuts: ‘It Felt Nostalgic, But Without Getting Mushy’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Apr 29, 2026 12:31pm PT Director Hiro Murai Re-Ups FX First-Look Deal as His New Apple Horror-Comedy ‘Widow’s Bay’ Debuts: ‘It Felt Nostalgic, But Without Getting Mushy’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Prolific TV director and producer Hiro Murai found himself in the eye of a storm, literally, while making Apple TV’s new horror-comedy series “Widow’s Bay.”

“Without spoilers, there’s a lot of storm work coming up in the season that, on paper, was always really intimidating to me, just because those things are really hard to simulate and do practically,” Murai told Variety in an interview ahead of the show’s three-episode premiere Wednesday. “But we built it in a way that I was very happy with the results. It was a pain, but it was a really fun thing to try to nail. It was such a large-scale production tasked to set an entire episode inside of a storm.”

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