‘Shining Vale’ Creator Breaks Down That Season 2 Twist — and Courteney Cox’s ‘Holy S—!’ Reaction to It
variety.comHunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Smile,” the fourth episode of Season 2 of “Shining Vale,” now streaming on the Starz app.
With each passing episode on the set of Starz’s horror comedy “Shining Vale,” Greg Kinnear made a habit of asking co-creator Jeff Astrof how he planned to get the characters out of the spooky corners he backed them into. “And every time I told him, ‘Just trust me, we’re gonna get out of it,’” Astrof tells Variety.
But even he admits the latest twist required some extra explaining. In the final moments of Episode 4, mere minutes after Pat (Courteney Cox) and Terry (Kinnear) tell their children Gaynor (Gus Birney) and Jake (Dylan Gage) they are getting a divorce, Pat learns she is pregnant.
The baby could be amnesiac Terry’s, with whom Pat had reconnected before he learned about his wife’s affair –– again. But given the nature of the haunted house series, it is far more likely the baby was conceived during the demonic dream orgy Pat found herself at the center of during last week’s episode.
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