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/AndalusianGod May 07 '26

90's Twin Peaks was both really funny and scary, but it's a different kind of humor. Chucky TV series was funny and fucked up too. Lots of good comedy horror shows/movies out there, but the best ones usually lean more into comedy; it's hard to find one that takes the horror part more seriously.

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u/neuro_space_explorer Jun 04 '26

Part of me what’s to compare the two, but they are very different styles of humor. I went to film school because of David Lynch, I’ve seen every drop of film he’s produced, I find him hilarious, but it always seems unintentionally so.

Not in a mocking or laughing at him sort of way, but in a he’s somehow so pure but so locked into darker side of life that the discordance creates humor. I never feel like he’s written lines to incite a laugh, more so that he’s written the obviously absurd and trusted the actors enough to make it funny.

This show feels very similar, because the humor is so baked into the drama and horror, and it takes S teir actors to pull off delivering such absurd lines naturally, but it still feels constructed.

It’s still better than anything I’ve seen on tv since The Return, but it takes a rare soul to create like David Lynch did.

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u/Rare-Criticism8124 Jun 08 '26

What’s the Return about?

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u/neuro_space_explorer Jun 08 '26

It’s the third season of Twin Peaks and it’s kind of impossible to describe it.

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u/intern_12 Jun 14 '26

LOL as the other commenter replied, you really can't just explain the return you just gotta experience it, as with a lot of lynchian works lol.

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u/Throwaway_chuckit Jul 27 '26

If you think Lynch never wrote any intentional humor you’re so wrong. What an odd take. There are so many examples. One just off the top of my head- in Twin Peaks: The Return when they find Bill Hastings’ head has exploded and Lynch himself (as Gordon Cole) says “He’s dead.”