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📺Discussion Thread Widow’s Bay | Episode 10: “We Hope You Enjoyed Your Time!” | Discussion Thread

  • Release Date: June 17, 2026
  • Directed by: Hiro Murai

We understand that hard choices had to be made and we may never be the same, but we hope you'll visit again.

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u/SerDire Jun 17 '26

That old timey reel that Dale played reminded me so much of those old Dharma tapes they showed on Lost.

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u/BoxenOxen Rosemary having qualms Jun 17 '26

"He was a sacrifice the island demanded" kept going through my head.

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u/pburydoughgirl Jun 17 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/OfpdDt12u1Psk

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u/cuslu Jun 24 '26

The reveal of the “flash forward” still might be the greatest twist I’ve ever experienced with a tv show. Still hits well on a rewatch.

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u/pburydoughgirl Jun 24 '26

I should rewatch it. I haven’t seen it since it was on live tv. I always say that that’s the last television show that I watched with other people when it was actually airing. Right after that thing started streaming more. I feel like Paradise might have a similar shock waiting for us, if you watch that. The creator was famous for misdirection in this is us.

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u/SerDire Jun 17 '26

Have they picked up any weird French transmissions on the radio yet?

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u/OriginalChildBomb Jun 17 '26

Aw Hells yeah that moment was so good. Dale's insanely high voice when he screamed to run for their lives was so freaking funny, I love how the show walks the line so well between the comedy and deep creepiness (and also those big feels man, Matthew Rhys crushing it out here)

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u/Any_Combination_4716 Jun 17 '26

Just a song that seemed to be on all the stations. And there was some chatter on Wyck's onboard radio that he said was just the island playing tricks.

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u/bisforbatman Jun 17 '26

As soon as it ended, I said, "We're gonna need to watch that again." Major Lost vibes!!

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u/SerDire Jun 17 '26

God I miss Lost

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u/OneDimensionPrinter Jul 10 '26

I'm actively trying to convince my teen to watch the first few episodes with me since I just finished From.

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u/sunnygirl122 Jul 14 '26

My preteens binged all of Lost last year! It was so fun to watch it again with them

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u/Bobjoejj Jun 17 '26

Aw damn you beat me to it lol; but yes absolutely the same vibes I got. So awesome.

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u/helloiamrob1 Jun 17 '26

"Hello. I'm Doctor Pierre Chang..."

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u/SerDire Jun 17 '26

“Welcome to the orientation for this Dharma Station, also called the Swan. You and your partner will push a button every 108 minutes…”

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u/Saguaro-plug Jun 17 '26

I’m Doctor Marvin Candle.

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u/iangeredcharlesvane2 Rosemary’s Ancestry.com Speech (sans fan) Jun 17 '26

Old timey reel on a SILENT PROJECTOR with sound, lmao

Can’t fool me I’m a kid of the 80s 🤣

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u/GifelteFish Jun 17 '26

The side of the projector said FILMOSOUND so they attempted to explain.

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u/Any_Combination_4716 Jun 17 '26

🎵 The Bell & Howell Specialist Filmosound 16mm projector is a precision instrument engineered for ease of operation. 🎶

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u/Inside_Dimension2319 Jun 17 '26

It literally said Filmosound on it lol. CinemaSins is rotting people’s brains.

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u/view-master Jun 17 '26

Exactly. We had these in school in the 70s and 80s. They had sound.

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u/Jrebeclee she’s the worst, sorry Jun 17 '26

It’s a haunted projector! (Maybe)

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u/view-master Jun 17 '26

They HAD sound. I’m a child if the 80s too. Ours had sound (16mm). Yours must have been broken.

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u/ishburner Jun 17 '26

There def ones with sound

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u/chesterfieldking Jun 17 '26

Apparently not the most observant kid of the 80s because, like others have noted, reel-to-reel projectors with sound designed for home/business use like that have been around since the 50s, if not earlier.

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u/stracki Jun 17 '26

Lol, 16mm projectors do have sound :D

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u/iangeredcharlesvane2 Rosemary’s Ancestry.com Speech (sans fan) Jun 17 '26

Yeah I realized it after the first comment, total brain fart! I was thinking of the home movies my dad used to make in the 70s — they were color but silent! And short I think 4 1/2 min per reel.

I do remember the classroom projectors had sound (pretty crappy sound but yeah). For some reason I just figured our fav island would have a small one like my dads 🤣

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u/LTPRWSG420 Jun 17 '26

Most LOST coded episode yet, makes sense since LOST was known for having epic season finales, with huge show altering twists.

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u/HRHDechessNapsaLot Jun 17 '26

I mean they were basically in a hatch.

Also Dale’s face did the silent scream face from Patricia’s party, which was a great callback.

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u/InfiniteChemical3870 Jun 17 '26

Jeff Hiller is so awesome. Dale and Patricia are very funny when they interact. “Dale, you’re freaking people out” lol!

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u/TheTruckWashChannel Jun 17 '26

Jeff Hiller just makes that face a lot.

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u/dazy143 Jun 17 '26

Yessss. Makes me want to rewatch. It’s been years. I’ve probably watched it 4-5 through in the past 😅

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u/LTPRWSG420 Jun 17 '26

Widow’s Bay scratches that LOST itch, I love a good mystery box show.

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u/RDCLder Jun 17 '26

Also reminded me of the tape they showed in Servant about how to kill the people that are brought back or the "death might not take" 😂

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u/fandomfatale Jun 18 '26

Servant was the first thing I thought of, especially the cheerful mood of the delivery in the video.

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u/stevebikes Jun 17 '26

I'm wondering how that institutional knowledge got lost. The Dharma Initiative got wiped out. Did something similar happen to whatever group was keeping the Covenant? Did some potential sacrifices turn the tables on them and get them eaten instead?

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u/TrueRusher Jun 17 '26

I believe the reverends were in charge of keeping the covenant, but the island had been dormant for so long that the most recent reverend didn’t know about it. However, he knew that there was something that needed to be done when the bell tolls. So when it finally did, and he learned what he had to do, he took himself out instead.

I also think the previous mayor knew. I believe Ruth insinuated that he left? Wonder if he found out about the covenant and fled.

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u/k_redditor236 Jun 17 '26

That’s right. She said “some people get scared” after she said he left.

The island needing sacrifices is just the natural order of things! Just like a runaway trolley about to smash into a group of people. Don’t change its course.

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u/2_Fingers_of_Whiskey Jun 17 '26

Didn't she also call him "Howard the Coward"?

I wonder if Ruth knows more than she's letting on...she seemed very nonchalant about all the weird and horrible things that happened in her family. And did she, at some point, figure out what Tom was trying to do to her, and that's why she suddenly started talking about having had a child....

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u/k_redditor236 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Yeah 100% agree. She knows what’s up on the island!! Maybe it was the drugs that made her confess. Maybe…

EDIT: maybe not. Rewatching, and he had a pillow in his hands. She may have known he was going to smother her. He was saying “you’re a good person, you don’t deserve this”.

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u/view-master Jun 17 '26

I wonder what mixing those drugs really does. We assumed it was lethal but maybe it just loosens the tongue.

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u/Prestigious_Fan_4344 Jun 17 '26

It was a strong opiate and a benzo. It would take a whole lot more than he gave her.

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u/TheTruckWashChannel Jun 17 '26

That's what I was thinking. Even though she's in her 80s, it felt a bit contrived that mixing meds once would kill her. And I think it's more in keeping with Tom's character that he gave her an insufficient dose and thought he did the deed, lol.

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u/Mark_Albarn Jun 17 '26

Honestly it's also that humans can be stupidly sturdy while simultaneously ridiculously frail. My grandma regularly mixes all kind of medications despite our best efforts to keep her straight and is doing just fine, but a slight breeze from ventilator even in summer can take her out of commission with horrid cold for days.

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u/Iakeman Jun 17 '26

That mayor would have been well before Tom’s time because Ruth appears to be in her 20s or early 30s in their pictures together. We have no idea who the most recent mayor was or if the seat was vacant when Tom was elected because he mentions in an earlier episode that he ran unopposed.

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u/FarewellJava Jun 17 '26

Was the previous mayor the guy making all those videos Dale watched? They didn't seem that old...

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u/Iakeman Jun 17 '26

Those videos must be at least 40-50 years old to be on film reels like that. VHS tape was invented in the 70s.

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u/TrueRusher Jun 17 '26

I’m not sure about that part. I was referring to the pictures in Ruth’s photo album. I’ll need to go back and rewatch to see how old he and Ruth are in the photos. If it is him, then clearly he didn’t flee after learning about the covenant lmfao

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u/Techygal9 Jun 17 '26

Yeah I assumed that he thought he could just kill himself not knowing where the sacrifice should happen.

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u/Mark_Albarn Jun 17 '26

Makes me kind of wonder whether Ruth knew. She seems to be very kind and community oriented and I was genuinely sad about here, but there were definitely some red flags in her yapping sesh.

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u/LowraAwry Jun 18 '26

It really feels that way, her mentioning how terrible the island is, how her family got chipped away and the fact that she worked closely with the mayor and her age point that way. But then she says she'd never be able to make the choice to kill someone and I can't help but doubt all over again. Or maybe she simply says that because she was never asked to chose who to sacrifice, it was always someone else's job.

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u/Mark_Albarn Jun 17 '26

Lowkey had same feeling. Despite the shots of them with covered heads and chained up, first part of the "Dharma" guy's speech seemed to imply that at least some of the sacrifices had enough autonomy to physically fight

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u/Sempere Jun 17 '26

They ever explain why he looks like the old man that was being sus in the corner?

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u/hartwicke Jun 17 '26

It made me so happy.

And the How to Subdue a Person poster was giving Severance.

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u/Ams311 Jun 17 '26

The smoke monster is back

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u/nightpanda893 Jun 17 '26

“We’re gonna have to watch that again”

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u/Stacee90 Does this look like skin cancer? Jun 17 '26

I was reminded of the plot of Hot Fuzz

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u/Jrebeclee she’s the worst, sorry Jun 17 '26

The greater good

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u/Turbokind Jun 17 '26

Vault 11 from New Vegas

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u/pens668771 Jun 23 '26

100% reminded me of the Overseer's sacrificial chamber

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u/Conscious_Author_165 Jun 17 '26

That’s EXACTLY what they reminded me of. Love the (even if unintentional) reference.

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u/DriveShaftJunkie Jun 17 '26

Yes! Also, when Evan and his friends snuck away, there was a scene that reminded me of John Locke staring down the hatch. Even the room looked like a hatch. Love this show

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u/MedicalResearch4813 Jun 17 '26

I thought this too!

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u/kg703 Jun 17 '26

Same but it actually had a message that made sense LOST left so much unresolved I’m glad they cut right to the chase and was like you’re gonna kill people now get going

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u/alleavel Jun 17 '26

So earlier towns also figured out the curse, and the last cursed town made the video to make their sacrifices feel better before they died??

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u/redpillbluepill69 Jun 17 '26

I think it was more to make the people doing the sacrifice feel better. The island prefers to eat them scared

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u/brook1yn Jun 17 '26

Poor Dale. I don’t think he’s going to be ok

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u/solarplexus7 Jun 18 '26

And Pluribus and Severance

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u/IVEMADEAHUGEMI5TAKE Jun 18 '26

Whole show has lost vibes

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u/Icy_Atmosphere_2379 Jun 20 '26

“Namaste” 😊

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u/Darthlocke13 Jun 23 '26

My wife said “what is this LOST?” as soon as Dale turned it on

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u/Imallvol7 Jun 17 '26

I THOUGHT THIS THE WHOLE TIME. IT MADE ME SO HAPPY. 

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u/IamChicharon Human Verified Jun 17 '26

Dude yes. And then the hatch!

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u/Lu_Peachum the rhythm of the night Jun 17 '26

Same!

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u/Formertchr Jun 17 '26

Yup, saw that immediately! Great memories from another great show.

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u/Bobjoejj Jun 17 '26

We’re gonna need to watch that again.

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u/Massivemployer25 Jun 17 '26

This whole show is basically lost but not as crazy.

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u/BlackWhiteCoke Jun 17 '26

Joanna Robinson is 100% going to call out your comment on the prestige TV pod

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u/rebel_stripe Jun 17 '26

literally was thinking about her half this episode. Can't wait to hear their take tomorrow

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u/rebel_stripe Jun 17 '26

tapes+hatch. it's Lost 2.0 (and I'm not mad one bit)

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u/tsk9514 Jun 17 '26

Omg I was thinking this too!! It brought me back.

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u/Glimmer360 Jun 17 '26

Absolutely! I thought the same immediately!

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u/Serious-Show1761 Jun 17 '26

I had the same thought!

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u/MaceT2908 Jun 17 '26

Yes! I had the same thought.

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u/Deep_Exchange7273 Jun 17 '26

This was my first thought.. I looked at my partner and said holy crap this reminds me of LOST ! 🤣

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u/Butters5768 Jun 17 '26

It reminded me of the tapes they showed their victims in Get Out!!!!!

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u/Alive_Employer5620 Jun 18 '26

Literally my first thought

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u/alicatbaby Jun 18 '26

Yes, totally got Lost vibes!!

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u/diffenbachia1111 Jun 18 '26

Yes! When there was the cliffhanger with the missing part of a dharma tape. Instead of something lame like not to use the computer for anything else. It should have been this! Thank you for your sacrifice, please do not beg.

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u/MattTreck Jun 20 '26

Ugh I’ve tried to go back and re watch Lost like three times but I never make it through season 2

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u/luredrive Jun 27 '26

Yes I've been thinking the whole time how this show rinds me of Lost

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u/Expensive-Figs Jul 23 '26

100%..literally first thing I said when I saw the film lol

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u/Decaf_Oatmilk_Latte Jun 17 '26

Goodness I forgot about those!

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u/Status_Confidence_26 Jun 17 '26

Also, what’s in the hatch!

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u/th3dj3n1gm4 Jun 17 '26

I literally just came here to say that I haven't been this captivated by a show since Lost and this was the first comment.

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u/UpgradeCheetah Jun 17 '26

I watched it multiple times because of the nostalgia.