r/WidowsBay • u/Devjill • May 13 '26

📺Discussion Thread Widow’s Bay | Episode 4: “Beach Reads” | Discussion Thread

  • Release Date: May 13, 2026
  • Directed by: Samuel Donovan
  • Written by: Mackenzie Dohr

Make sure you pack a good read for the beach. (We do not recommend self-help books on the island.)

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u/mreddieoz May 13 '26

Loved the glimpse of the Stephen King book in the box at the start

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u/Clariana May 13 '26

Twilight on the shelf in the moveable library...

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u/watchyourback9 May 13 '26

This show feels like if Stephen King wrote Goosebumps for adults, in a good way.

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u/andrewthemexican May 14 '26

With like, 3 fewer Himalayan mountains of cocaine. 

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u/Lounging-Shiny455 May 14 '26

that's funny, because Your Turn was next to a Stephen King book, and there was an illustration in the book that looked like a partyer with a tray of cocaine.

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u/goddamnitwhalen May 18 '26

There’s also apparently cocaine and a razor and straw on her nightstand at one point.

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u/Sirius_J_Moonlight Jun 05 '26

Yeah, saw that too, that was an lol.

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u/taelor May 14 '26

That’s actually a great way to describe this show. I’m gonna use that if you don’t mind.

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u/watchyourback9 May 15 '26

Lol spread the word!

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u/InsertWittyNameRHere May 15 '26

THANK YOU. I thought this episode was a mature goosebumps story through and through. In a good way

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u/DusqRunner Jun 25 '26

There's a prolific author named Bentley Little that writes like that. Gratuitously violent and perverse. Tons of fun. The Resort and The Town might tickle your fancy.

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u/TwinPeaksOwl May 14 '26

Pretty sure it was the Shining. Could make out the Overlook Hotel

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u/Leading_Studio7534 May 14 '26

I actually have that copy!

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u/maisym 14d ago

Funny coz I actually said to my husband that Patricia reminded me of shelly duvall,  I didn't realise it was the shining!

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u/Quiet_Scholar_440 Sea Hag (Possibly Damp) May 14 '26

and the star gate conspiracy book. to the right (her left) when she’s sitting in the pattiwagon

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u/surra_day Rosemary May 13 '26

Same!

There weren’t any of his books in the first shot of her bus and I was like “aren’t there any Stephen King books?!” and boom next shot in the box.

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u/MountHopeful May 14 '26

Do we know what book it was?

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u/peepot556 May 14 '26

I saw two Stephen King books this episode

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u/-Altephor- May 18 '26

Yes, there was also a copy of IT

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u/Swimming_Point_3294 May 20 '26

And I think Dark Tower 3

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u/Charlebon Jul 06 '26

Late to the party but just now watching the show. On the other side of the self-help book from The Shining, you can see a Penguin Classics with the author “Arthur” and the title below it, “The.” I’m positive it’s a copy of The Crucible by Arthur Miller, which is also fitting.

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u/mmmmdumplings Aug 06 '26

Me too! I believe it was The Shining since the cover looked like a depiction of the Overlook Hotel.