Like many nights over the last few months, I went to bed thinking about "Widow's Bay," the Apple TV series that is basically an homage to every great horror movie/story of the last 100 years. It's the kind of show, like "Lost" or "Severance," that isn't going to answer every single question it raises, but it's going to allow you as the viewer to not feel so short-changed and at the whims of deceiving writers. You go on a journey, the island is haunted, it reveals its desire as the season goes on, and the cliffhanger means there will be more death and mystery to uncover. Just don't eat the mushrooms, okay?
Last night, at about 12:30am, when I couldn't sleep and I was thinking about Wyck and Ruth, Tom and Patricia, and of course, Evan (poor, poor Evan, but that is not why I'm writing this, although I am very honored to have my own name on the lead of a major show like this, thank you Katie Dippold, and thank you Hiro Murai for being you), I wrote down this line on my phone: "We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love." This was a cross-stitched quote that Ruth reads to Tom as Tom ponders killing her to save the residents of the island from a curse. Ruth reminds Tom that life is always a burning building, we are always in a state of angst, fear, pain, grief, and that the cure is love. That quote comes from Tennessee Williams, and what was interesting in a show that quotes Jaws, Frankenstein, Halloween, The Exorcist, you name it, that Dippold went with the works of a Southern Gothic writer, a writer who at times could write about how there's always something decaying underneath the surface — whether that's a person, a family, or an entire way of life. I mean, this is "Widow's Bay."
Last night, at about 12:30am, when I couldn’t sleep and I was thinking about Wyck and Ruth, Tom and Patricia, and of course, Evan (poor, poor Evan, but that is not why I’m writing this, although I am very honored to have my own name on the lead of a major show like this, thank you Katie Dippold, and thank you Hiro Murai for being you), I wrote down this line on my phone: “We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.” This was a crocheted quote that Ruth reads to Tom as Tom ponders killing her to save the residents of the island from a curse. Ruth reminds Tom that life is always a burning building, we are always in a state of angst, fear, pain, grief, and that the cure is love. That quote comes from Tennessee Williams, and what was interesting in a show that quotes Jaws, Frankenstein, Halloween, The Exorcist, you name it, that Dippold went with the works of a Southern Gothic, a writer who at times could write about how there's always something decaying underneath the surface — whether that's a person, a family, or an entire way of life. I mean, this is “Widow’s Bay.”
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