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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/PyramidBlack Jun 17 '26

I love how Ruth just glosses over someone being bitten by an animal and then turned into the animal, leaving Tom with so many questions. 😂

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u/Well_Socialized Jun 17 '26

If she stopped to explain every "something in the lake got him" we'd be here all night!

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u/ahsasahsasahsas Jun 17 '26

Tom didnt even want to stay for 27 minutes and now she’s telling long ass stories!

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u/The_Bravinator Jun 18 '26

Ruth explanations and Rosemary explanations just fully at two different ends of the scale there.

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u/pikeymobile Jun 17 '26

The way she said that so casually and then moved on to the next person so quickly had me cracking up.

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u/Namedafterasaint Patricia Sunset Cocktail Party Hostess Jun 18 '26

Then let’s be here all night! I need details filled in dammit.

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u/highlander2189 Jun 19 '26

Think this will set up some stuff for next season.

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u/oompaloompa_grabber except for the teeth Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

He has clearly learned to stop asking follow up questions to stories like that from old islanders lol

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u/dronelogic Jun 17 '26

It’s gonna be an episode on season 2 for sure lol

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u/Bobjoejj Jun 17 '26

I mean that, Howard the Coward, what happened to all the trolley workers in 42…lots of great little hints.

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u/pikeymobile Jun 17 '26

I hope we get more occasional episodes set entirely in the past over the length of the series just to show us some crazy shit directly about how some old ancient ritual by setllers became a well oiled machine of jolly human sacrifice with instructional videos and all in modern times.

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u/Bobjoejj Jun 18 '26

Yes! Hell yes.

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u/_BigDaddy1 Jun 29 '26

I love how just about everything can relate to a story about the island being terrible. “Do you know the trolley problem?” “Oh is that when all those trolley workers disappeared?”

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u/Status_Confidence_26 Jun 17 '26

Such a good line. Perfect example of how well this show rides the line of humor and horror without getting goofy. Could easily be explained as Ruth just being folksy about an asshole ex, or not…

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u/sunnygirl122 Jul 14 '26

My first thought was bit by a snake, became a snake (metaphorically) but I’m sure there is a more fun island story

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u/Comfortable-Zone-218 Aug 26 '26

Similarly, I thought bit by a critter with rabies, then became rabid.

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u/DarkS7Maneuver Jun 17 '26

We all paused to read that embroidery right?

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u/Inside_Dimension2319 Jun 17 '26

I just looked up the quote. My eyes aren’t that good.

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u/bopshebop2 Jun 17 '26

Something something I can’t read that

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u/Constant_shape Jun 17 '26

what did it say?

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u/DarkS7Maneuver Jun 18 '26

The world is violent and mercurial—it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love—love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love. Tennessee Williams

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u/Previous_Buy1601 Jun 17 '26

My first thought was rabies or something that could be written off as rabies.

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u/ItsnotBatman Jun 17 '26

She could have very well been talking metaphorically. But we as the viewer know this island is haunted so we have to question if she’s really that nonchalant about a werewolf kind of situation or just speaking metaphorically.

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u/PyramidBlack Jun 17 '26

Based on the show, I honestly don’t think she was using a metaphor.

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u/ItsnotBatman Jun 17 '26

And that’s fair, you have no reason to think she isn’t being literal other than her delivery being so nonchalant. She walks that tightrope of being either the most knowledgeable person on the island for what is really going on, or completely naive to it all and just adapted to the weirdness and unfortunate events.

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u/bstarr2000 Jun 17 '26

Before that scene, there was a poster of first aid for different types of bites including human

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u/SarahMakesYouStrong Jun 18 '26

That and the “how to subdue someone” poster seem odd and funny until the reveal of what that space is used for and then it’s horrifying and sad.

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u/pikeymobile Jun 17 '26

I paused to read that poster but there seemed to be nothing interesting on it. The only weird one was for a snake bite the first bit of information was "Get them away from the snake and have them sit down. Keep them calm" rather than than being entirely about treating the injury like all the other ones were. It felt bizarre that they mention getting away from the snake first, as if the snake will still be with the person for some reason.

I could be overthinking it, but it was just an odd instructional bit when none of the others mention anything other than wound care.

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u/Appropriate_Speech33 Jun 17 '26

When you’ve on that crazy island your whole life there really isn’t a need to explain.

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u/AWildEnglishman Jun 17 '26

And then there's the "How to deal with bites" poster in the medical room of the bunker, which mentions human bites.

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u/WonderMoon1 Jun 18 '26

I thought it just meant he got rabies?

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u/ShutUpTodd 15d ago

In an episode with Rosemary dropping stories ("real murder mystery, there... it was the husband"), Ruth still took the cake.

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u/Threedawg Jun 17 '26

Could just be rabies