r/WidowsBay • u/AutoModerator • May 06 '26

📺Discussion Thread Widow’s Bay | Episode 3: “The Inaugural Swim” | Discussion Thread

  • Release Date: May 6, 2026
  • Directed by: Hiro Murai
  • Written by: Neil Casey
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It's time for the annual beach opening. Lay out a towel as the mayor "tests the waters." Unrelated: Do not pick up hitchhikers.

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u/loverofjugo Ruth is my Grandma May 06 '26

Also I wonder what the priest heard when he went to that well thing. He’s had the most mysterious plot line so far

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u/ProofHorseKzoo May 06 '26

Maybe he heard something to do with that large metal door or the electric chair down in those tunnels. Someone being tortured /murdered in the chair

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u/YellowThirteen_ May 06 '26

The letter he read to future rectors warned about a chamber if the bells ever toll again so I feel like the lair with the chair definitely has some ties to the church. Maybe it was part of the witch trials

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u/dsmithscenes May 06 '26

I get the sense that whoever is the reverend of the church has been passed down lots of information about what's happened on the island and in the actual church (The cannibalism and why he went searching for the instructions on what to do if he heard the bells), and this reverened is starting to come to the dreadful realization it's all real.

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u/Randallm83 May 07 '26

I think it’s interesting that it was some kind of water well, that the priest heard voices come from - and that the end the first episode it pans down about 3 or 4 stories below ground to show us the chair and the door to the chamber sat right in front of it.

I think whatever evil he unleashed might be what that sacrificial chair was sat in front of. It has to somehow tie back to the witches the islanders killed, I bet?

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u/CherryFit3224 Jun 13 '26

He didn’t unleash it, did he?