Widow’s Bay crept its way into quickly fueling obsessive fandom discourse, converting viewers with its genre-bending, darkly comedic first season. With a finale that both satisfied its captive audience and rewarded them with a calculatedly chilling turn of events for Mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) and his cabinet of close compatriots, there are now more questions than answers left to unearth beneath the ground of the cursed island shores.
Considering that the island is hungry for more tourism than Loftis could have imagined, the season ends with a bell tolling and eight lives left to feed the entity that requires human sacrifices. So with that, here are eight intriguing mysteries that are still unsolved that we hope to see play out in the future. Thankfully, Widow’s Bay scored a season two renewal, so there’s a chance. (And we want more sunset cocktails with Patricia!)
1. Which Deaths Count to Satisfy the Island on Widow’s Bay?
At the start of the season, the death knell of the bell tolls nine times. But even after the events in the episodes that followed, we don’t get a hint of what counts until the season finale. The storm and island threat were assuaged only after Evan and his friends left Kenny to be fed to the entity. Which means that as the sacrifice protocol reveals itself to Dale, the island’s hunger requires that its human meals be in a pure state of fear and in its proximity to pounce on them.
Despite sailor Shep’s deadly outburst, the priest’s suicide, and the drug dealer getting sucked into the island’s supernatural tornado, those deaths did not count. Tom and Evan hear the bell sound eight times in the finale, meaning that the island is a little less mad. Now, the mayor must face the reality that it might fall on him to keep the island satiated in future seasons.
2. Was the Boogeyman Collecting Teen Souls for the Island?
Widow’s Bay does a great job at hinting to the audience that the mayor is supposed to be the one inclined to search for sacrifices. Loftis’ strange obsession with getting more tourists on the island could speak to that being an instinct that the environment he’s in encourages. But what happens if the mayor refuses? Mayor Howard the Coward is referenced in the season around the time that punk PJ traps Kevin in the room with the chair. If Loftis refuses, could PJ continue in this tradition?
Take the Boogeyman, whose sudden teen killing spree might have been compelled by the island. He could not be stopped and made sure his victims were in a deep state of fear. If he were somehow a possessed conduit of the island’s evil, that fed it until he was locked away before claiming Patricia. That connection likely made the killer indestructible, like Warren in the coffin for all those years before he was freed by someone. Thankfully, Patricia, in all her glory, made sure the Boogeyman was ashes that could not regenerate, giving her the best final girl ascension.
3. Is Loftis Hiding More About What Really Happened to Evan’s Mom?
It’s strange for a man who weaponizes his incompetence beneath a guise of bumbling nincompoopery to have a chest of secrets and more beneath the house. Thanks to Tom, Evan thought his mom died in childbirth, but she lived as a shell of a person in a hospital. Loftis knew that trying to get her off the island almost killed her, and he clearly is doing everything he can to stop that fate from befalling his son. It all makes Loftis’ identity as well-meaning hit some snags, even if he’s operating to make the island a better cage to keep his son safe and alive in.
But where is she? Once we find out she lived and was committed to an asylum, that leaves room for the possibility that it’s connected to the mystery of the hospital that no one is supposed to stop at. We’re tired of dead moms, so we hope Lauren gets some sort of unexpected role in the show’s future.
Take the Boogeyman, whose sudden teen killing spree might have been compelled by the island. Think about it. He could not be stopped and made sure his victims were in a deep state of fear, and if he were somehow a possessed conduit of the island’s evil, it made it easy to keep it fed until he was locked away before claiming Patricia. That connection likely gave the killer extra lives that could not be extinguished for those years in between before he was freed by someone on the island. Thankfully Patricia in all her glory made sure the Boogeyman was ashes that could not regenerate in the best final girl scene committed to television in a long time.
4. Does Widow’s Bay Have Cryptids Like Werewolves? (The answer better be yes.)
When Ruth regales Loftis with her pull on the island, starting off with her first love, she begins dropping her deepest of lore. “He got bit by an animal and became that animal” became an instantly iconic line delivery from actress K. Callan.
Earlier in the season, Loftis flips through a calendar that’s just wolves, so we sure as hell hope this means werewolves will show up on Widow’s Bay. Really, any other cryptids, for that matter, like the sea hag that tried to eat Tom before Wyck saved him. It’d also be really cool to see Wyck get a round two with his sea beast, but if he’s inspired by Quint from Jaws, we fear for his fate.
5. Are Warren’s Descendants Purposefully Alluring to Keep the Bloodline Going?
In the flashback episode, we’re introduced to the origins of the suspicions about Richard Warren (Hamish Linklater) making a deal with the devil of sorts when his second wife, Sarah (Betty Gilpin), sees him more interested in getting rid of bodies the island is presumably being fed instead of lying in bed with her. Then, of course, thinking that burying him alive would mean the horrors would end, but alas, not since his youngest daughter made it back ashore. This daughter will be wed off to her very much older savior as soon as she is of age.
The curse clearly wants to keep the Warren bloodline going. Ruth’s long list of people who made a pass at her, hilarious as it was, resulted in her giving in to a married man and getting pregnant with Lauren.
The pull-out method, not working, as a joke set up by Tom, is echoed by Ruth, which makes his concern for Evan valid. It does make us wonder, however, what would happen if Evan got his tourist fling pregnant? Tom’s mom got pregnant by a Widow’s Bay local, but he was born on the mainland. Yet he was made to visit his dad every summer, which led to his meeting Lauren and having Evan. Would the Boston girl be seduced back onto the island somehow?
6. Did Bechir and His Wife Make It Off the Island?
It is never revealed if Bechir’s wife went into labor after all. Once the storm cleared up and it was safe to get out of there, we can imagine that the chief could have just been done and gotten himself and his wife off the island. Tom could have encouraged him to just leave him to worry about the last Warren, eliminating and pushing out an imminent threat to his son’s life.
7. Did Ruth Survive the Gunshot?
From the looks of the moment, she could have gotten her ear grazed. So if she’s alive and holds this secret too, it would make Bechir’s departure more pressing. Evan needs to connect with her as his grandmother since his mom wrote to him about her secret second mother. In retrospect, that letter now seems less like the ravings of a madwoman and makes sense. Also, we want to see Ruth reunite with her were-animal beau.
8. Was Warren’s Deal Actually Good for Widow’s Bay?
It would not be surprising if, as long as a Warren lived on the island, Richard’s deal, which he vehemently defended even after being buried alive, still stood. That only a certain number of sacrifices, enough to sustain the evil, would be required to allow the people of Widow’s Bay to live out their lives on the island. No one let Warren discuss the alternative, which could very well be that if not for the pact he made in desperation to allow his colony to thrive, it might actually be for the greater good. All things considered, the deal with the island is the trolley problem that every mayor has had to face.
And when they don’t, it appears someone gets compelled to be the shepherd leading the lambs to slaughter, whether it’s their leader or a boogeyman. Sure, Evans’ death would break the pact allowing people to leave, but would that really be a good thing? With that occurring, would the curse the show hinges on be revealed as a blessing in disguise that they turn on and, in return, allow the evil to consume Widows Bay unchecked? Evan’s life just might be the only thing standing between Widow’s Bay and a far worse fate if the evil is allowed to go unchecked.
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