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If history truly is a harsh judge, Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) has a much stronger chance of acquittal than most. As the mayor of Widow\u2019s Bay, Tom only wants his quaint New England island community to get a little more recognition and, with that, a healthy influx of tourism revenue.<\/p>

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He stands by that argument in the premiere of \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay,\u201d ignoring warnings from the town crank, Wyck Crawford (Stephen Root). Most of the locals stand in the old guy\u2019s corner, though. Wyck was born and raised there. Like everyone else, he knows all the local lore, including what would happen if the island were to wake up \u2013 or if any of its natural-born citizens try to escape it.<\/p>\n

Tom is a transplant who knows nothing. He rolls his eyes at the town\u2019s unquestioning belief in ghost stories and grimaces at all the visible evidence of how behind the times the town is. Widow\u2019s Bay is indeed a fusty place where everyone drives old cars, uses ancient computers and communicates on walkies and landlines since neither cell phones nor Wi-Fi connectivity works.<\/p>\n

But by the time the season finale rolls around, Tom believes every old wives\u2019 tale. He\u2019s even survived a few of them, including a murderous clown ghost and a sea hag who does in her victims by sitting on their faces. As a once-in-a-century storm rips the place apart, Tom\u2019s conversion may have arrived too late for the town, its visitors and his family. Finally understanding what they\u2019re up against still doesn\u2019t give him any answers about what made this place so damn haunted.<\/p>\n

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Some traditions are just traditions because of\u00a0 . . . tradition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cWidow\u2019s Bay\u201d is this season\u2019s sleeper hit because the show is a horror trope clearinghouse. The audience\u2019s understanding of fright story rules and stock characters seasons the show\u2019s sinister comedy, as it also draws on the audience\u2019s familiarity with places like its titular town, whether by reputation or experience. And we definitely recognize the genre archetypes stacked around Tom, including Patricia Moyer (Kate O\u2019Flynn), the socially awkward reject with Final Girl energy; Rosemary (Dale Dickey), the Cassandra-esque cynic everyone ignores to their detriment; and Ruth (K Callan), the forgetful elderly secretary who may be much more than she appears to be.<\/p>\n

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(Apple TV)<\/span> Matthew Rhys on \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Rhys\u2019 Tom, meanwhile, is a blend of a skeptic and a profiteering opportunist: He persuades a New York Times columnist (Bashir Salahuddin) who visits to brand the place as the new Martha\u2019s Vineyard. Not Nantucket or Cape Cod, but the summertime refuge for Manhattan\u2019s wealthy. Tom knows how to play to a crowd eager to savor little-known pleasures, which makes his salt-of-the-earth constituents frown despite his insistence that he only wants to enrich the community by drawing more visitors from the mainland.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not strictly true. Tom\u2019s also doing it for his own glory, to legitimize his suitability for the job to which he was elected because he ran unopposed, and to do better by his terminally bored and rebellious son Evan (Kingston Rumi Southwick) than his inadequate father did with him. Hmm, an arrogant politician with crippling daddy issues . . .\u00a0 where have we seen that before?<\/p>\n

In any case, the island is on board with Tom\u2019s extractive commerce push, indicated in the season\u2019s ominous ending. More visitors mean more money for the humans and more souls for the demonic presence trapping everyone in place, ensuring they can never get away. From what, they can\u2019t say.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy is this happening?\u201d Tom asks Wyck, moments after he survives one of several ghoulish assaults.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Wyck resignedly says. \u201cYou just survive it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ask around, and it seems that everybody is either watching \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay\u201d right now or plans to watch it sometime soon, if only to get in on the conversation about it.<\/p>\n

At a time when unifying entertainment is an increasingly rare find, this show feeds that hunger by being an easy watch. \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay\u201d has its share of jump scares, but for the most part, its frights are bearable and its symbols are heavier on text as opposed to subtext. That starts with the title font\u2019s most intentional resemblance to classic Stephen King paperback cover typography. Thus, for much of the season, Widow\u2019s Bay reads as a non-Derry substitute for all the author\u2019s Maine-area haunts.<\/p>\n

But the finale evokes a much older American horror story: \u201cThe Lottery,\u201d by Shirley Jackson, and its concise appraisal of ritualized cruelty enacted per tradition, although nobody remembers the reason the ritual began or why it persists.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always<\/em> been a lottery,\u201d insists one of Jackson\u2019s oldest villagers when someone mentions that a neighboring village is thinking of giving it up. He says this after observing, \u201cUsed to be a saying about \u2018Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.\u2019\u201d But sayings don\u2019t prove correlation. Sometimes people simply need an excuse to bleed their neighbors.<\/p>\n

The corruption cursing Widow\u2019s Bay slumbers for an unspecified time until it wakes up hungry for human lives, placing its order by tolling the church bell, with the number of chimes corresponding to the number of sacrifices. In the second episode, it rings nine times. Nobody knows how, since the bell\u2019s been chained up for such a long time that the metal links have rusted. And if they don\u2019t know how that happens, why bother investigating the reason? Some traditions are just traditions because of\u00a0 . . . tradition.<\/p>

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(Apple TV)<\/span> Stephen Root and Kate O\u2019Flynn in \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Jackson\u2019s lottery stoning takes place on a sunny June day, in contrast to the apocalyptic storm\u2019s nighttime arrival on \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay,\u201d forcing everyone into an underground shelter. In there, one of Tom\u2019s employees, Dale (Jeff Hiller), discovers a long-forgotten instructional reel featuring a man who cheerily tells the condemned to accept their fate and take pride in knowing their death will save countless lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve been carefully selected by a committee of your peers in a very fair, very rigorous selection process,\u201d the man says. \u201cMaybe you\u2019ve committed a crime or owe a debt to society, or have been found wanting in some way. Although you\u2019ll never know, take comfort in the fact that there is an absolutely unassailable reason you\u2019re here.\u201d<\/p>\n

No one clued in Dale about this, or anybody else, for that matter. But the townsfolk are fresh out of ideas of how to stop the disaster pressing down on them, save for one that Tom and Wyck, now allies against this unseen wickedness, plot together. And it\u2019s a terrible solution that might break the curse or leave them with blood on their hands, all for reasons nobody remembers.<\/p>\n

As horror metaphors go, this malediction is one we know all too well. Tom\u2019s problems on \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay\u201d are a heightened version of America\u2019s, brought about and exacerbated by a refusal to grapple with the hard, difficult truths about our history for the sake of improving the present and our future. Much of America can\u2019t even be honest about our recent past.<\/p>\n

During JD Vance\u2019s recent appearance on \u201cThe View,\u201d co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked him to explain the White House\u2019s ongoing attacks on anyone who isn\u2019t white.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat did Black people do to this administration that has allowed it to really stigmatize folks of color? And you know how hard it is. You have folks of color in your family. So when you see . . . them doing all kinds of removal of information of Black heroes, how does that sit with you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, what exactly are you talking about, Whoopi?\u201d he answered, generating groans from the studio\u2019s audience.<\/p>\n

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(Apple TV)<\/span> Stephen Root in \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Widow\u2019s Bay\u2019s founders damned themselves and all their descendants by burying their iniquity instead of living with it long enough to dispel it and learn from that mistake. That description is not figurative. The sixth episode\u2019s narrative rewinds to 1702, when the community\u2019s founder, Richard Warren (Hamish Linklater), takes a new wife, Sarah Westcott (Betty Gilpin). She soon discovers he is cruel, possibly homicidal, and can\u2019t be killed by natural means. So the townsfolk bury him. Hundreds of years later, when Wyck and Patricia dig up his coffin, they find him inside, very much alive but lacking sufficient answers. All Richard can guess is that if they take him beyond the mystical boundary cutting off the born residents of Widow\u2019s Bay from the rest of the world, the curse might end.<\/p>\n

But it doesn\u2019t, so the only solution Tom and Wyck land on is to murder the woman they conclude is Richard\u2019s sole remaining heir: Ruth, who has no family and, to their knowledge, never had children. They tell themselves Ruth has lived long enough and resign themselves to committing a horrendous crime against one of their own. But when Tom fights his way through the storm to Ruth\u2019s house, where she\u2019s sheltering in place, he discovers a woman who quietly holds the community together and whose death would leave many people much worse off.<\/p>\n

A defining moment in their meeting is when Ruth reads part of a Tennessee Williams quote rendered in cross-stitch. \u201c\u2019The world is violent and mercurial \u2014 it will have its way with you,\u2019\u201d she reads, before skipping over the middle part to get to the moral: \u201c\u2019We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCome on, Ruth,\u201d Tom scoffs. \u201cThis place is a house of horrors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLife is a house of horrors!\u201d she responds. \u201cYou should know that better than anyone, Tom.\u201d Then she calls out his main crime: He avoids the truth, she says. He knows Widow\u2019s Bay is never going to be Martha\u2019s Vineyard. \u201cThere\u2019s no bliss waiting at the finish line, and even if there was, it would just be taken away from you. Because that\u2019s just life, in all its ugly, beautiful, terrible glory. You just have to accept it.\u201d<\/p>\n

With this intimate, painful epiphany, the show\u2019s larger parable about obligingly submitting to ahistorical ignorance is blunted with a spiritually benevolent ideal. As long as the majority stays comfortable with the suffering of the many, our shared curse will remain unbroken. It\u2019s only people like Ruth, who thanklessly work to allay that suffering even in the smallest ways, that keep the darkness from devouring us whole.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the monstrous land demands its payment. Once it takes a sacrifice, the storm calms and the shelter empties. Tom and Evan greet a new day by looking out at the bay, and the mayor tosses that telltale brooch into the water. Then they hear the bell toll eight more times. Vacation spot or not, evil never takes a holiday.<\/p>

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All episodes of \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay\u201d are streaming on Apple TV.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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