“Shining Vale” Cinematographer Nicole Hirsch Whitaker Blends Creepy With Comedy

Courteney Cox is seeing spirits in the new Starz series Shining Vale. Her success in both the top-rated sitcom Friends and blockbuster horror series Scream meet at a sublime suburban crossroads. The pilot’s cinematographer, Nicole Hirsch Whitaker, laughingly admits that the show wasn’t such an obvious fit for her at first. 

“I don’t get asked to shoot comedy,” Whitaker said. “I am the antithesis of someone who gets asked to shoot comedy because my work is a little bit dark.”

‘A little bit dark’ is just what Shining Vale calls for in both atmosphere and humor.