Widow’s Bay, created by Katie Dippold and starring Matthew Rhys, has entranced audiences since premiering at the end of April with a perfect blend of horror and comedy. The Apple TV series takes place on a cursed fictional island called Widow’s Bay, filled with unforgettable characters and a legacy of unfortunate events.
In the penultimate episode, Tom discovers that centuries ago, the town’s founder, Richard Warren (Hamish Linklater) made a pact with a demonic entity to protect Widow’s Bay and the only way to destroy the pact is to wipe out his bloodline. After a long-winded and hilarious genealogy lesson from Rosemary (Dale Dickey), Mayor Tom, Tom’s assistant Patricia (Kate O’Flynn) and their ally Wyck (Stephen Root) discover that the last remaining part of Warren’s bloodline is none other than their 84-year-old colleague Ruth (K Callan).
While at Ruth’s house, a major twist is finally revealed. Ruth, perhaps due to a new cocktail of meds (Tom mixes her meds after seeing in her medical notes advice from a doctor to not mix her medication in an effort to peacefully kill her), shares a secret she’s been harboring for years. It’s widely believed that Ruth never had a child, but she tells Tom that she had an affair with a married man, and she got pregnant. She hid the pregnancy and ultimately gave the child to the married man, so he and his wife would raise the child as their own.
Tom is beyond horrified at the discovery, but Ruth, who has no idea about her cursed lineage, is positively overjoyed to get it off her chest: “It feels so good to finally say all this out loud. To unburden myself for all these years,” she says with glee. It’s one of many brilliant contrasts between horror and hilarity that has Widow’s Bay so adored.
As the two argue, the storm suddenly breaks. It was believed that only the killing of Warren’s bloodline could stop the incoming disaster, but Ruth is still breathing.
What lies beneath Widow's Bay?
There’s been a great deal of speculation about what’s in Tom’s basement since Episode 8, where Tom came home and panicked when he thought Evan went through the basement. Viewers have considered a multitude of possibilities about the basement. Could it contain evidence that Tom isn’t Evan’s father? Does his apparently dead wife still live in the basement? And perhaps above all, has Evan never been in his own basement? That’s weird! But perhaps it’s not that Evan’s never been down to the basement, but rather that if he searched hard enough, he’d find something he can’t unsee. An eagle-eyed Redditor even observed that the board game Tom plays in Episode 2 has a warning on it, reading “No! Basement is bad. You lose.” Another theory in the same thread suggests that the sacred geometry hand drawing from an earlier episode is actually a map of underground tunnels that leads to the door under the Salty Whale, where the electric chair is.
A townsperson finds them and orders them to come back to the shelter. But Evan’s friend closes the door on the way out, locking the man inside. Evan’s friends run away, but Evan stays behind, trying to open the door. Before he can open it, he hears a scream. Evan pries the door open, but the man is no longer inside. He notices that the previously sealed doors on the ground have been opened, and he leaves to go back to the shelter.
Whatever happens to the man in the basement leads to the immediate end of the brutal storm. And what did happen? Well, the finale appears to have answered that, too.
In the wake of the storm, Tom is seen throwing Ruth’s pendant, the one that confirms her lineage to Warren, into the sea. He heads back to his car where Evan waits for him, and hears the bell toll eight times, signaling that the beast requires eight human sacrifices. He and Evan drive back home, and the episode, and season, ends.
Those are all answers that we can only hope to get in Season 2. But if there’s anything Widow’s Bay has prepared us for, it’s that there’s probably an awful lot to come that we’ve not even considered. And I can’t wait to find out what that is.
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