IN SEASON ONE OF SHINING VALE, series creators Sharon Horgan (Bad Sisters) and Jeff Astrof (Friends) expertly connected the swirling chaos of female ageing and mental illness to that of a horror show. Mediocre writer, mother and wife Pat Phelps (Courteney Cox) is their deeply flawed “heroine”’, who attempts to salvage her messed-up family with a reboot in the suburbs.
There, she hoped to tackle menopause, writer’s block, her broken marriage bad moment with an axe.
