re: Widow’s Bay (AppleTV) Discussion *Renewed for S2*

Copied/pasted from my mistake of posting this in the FROM thread ( ):

Double-episode drop. I'm not often a fan of a historical episode, but it really did a good job of answering some questions (we learn where the chair/door is and the relevance of the well the preacher was listening to. My guess is that's where the demon "lives".

We also learned that Richard Warren's "leadership" which led the founding colonists through a tough beginning was mainly his making a deal with a demon (or Satan, or whatever). We also learned that the deal kept him alive as long as he didn't leave the island's boundaries.

When Richard was making comments about being the last of his blood, I realized the point the writers made of focusing on the portrait of the kids drowning at sea and the one who was "lost". My guess is that she not only survived but that her lineage still exists, probably through the mayor's dead wife and into his son.

Giving Wyck the life preserver then letting him go was a top-notch move.

Which brings up a question: what really happened to his wife??? We now know she didn't die in childbirth (maybe he just states it that way because she somehow changed after going blind).

Another question: how will the demon/devil/island/entity react to Richard's death? Also, what exactly was written on the spooge-scroll?

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Wyck. Especially after he told the story about the other boys in the boat going down by a kraken (the island) but he gets away.

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I think that's more to explain why he never pursued things Gerrie as well as reinforce why his character is an eccentric and/or drunkard. If so, then he's spent his life obsessing over his cowardice and it's driven him to a dark place.

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2. Patricia. Why was she the only one the Boogeyman didn’t kill as a teenager?

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A distinct possibility. Another is that the island seems to like to play on peoples' weaknesses when it's "waking up" and what would be more cruel that the island treating an insecure try-hard as if they matter so little that even a serial killer doesn't want to bother with them? If that's the case, it would mean the entity thinks long-term by setting her up to feel worthless only to use that against her to create the ritual/bonfire/sacrifice.

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3. The Mayor’s kid: We know he’s been born within the parameters of the island. Nothing bad has happened to him yet. We know his Mom was born on the island. Just seems like a possibility.

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That's where I'm at, and I think it may also have something to do with his mother having actually lived for a while after he was born. Perhaps that was why she was "only" struck blind when she left the island instead of being killed? She was pregnant so the island didn't want to risk killing both remaining bloods of Richard Warren?