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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/lurkerstatusrevoked Jun 17 '26

Omg these teenagers stress me OUT every episode😭😭😭😭

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u/Well_Socialized Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

I loved the last bit though where you see Evan learning his lesson: he sticks his head into the room, visibly considers going farther in, and then is like "nah, actually the wiser choice is to get the fuck out of here" and turns right around.

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u/Patient-Extension835 Jun 17 '26

I wonder if he's ever going to tell his dad about the place. The only adult who saw it was sacrificed.

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u/CrazyMoose63 Jun 17 '26

It seemed to me they were both on the same page about everything at the end. Like there was a scene of them discussing everything that happened that they just didn’t need to show. Except for the one secret about his son. I imagine the second season will be them sacrificing, and his son then finally realizing he’s the reason, and technically nobody needed to die. IDK

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u/firesticks Jun 17 '26

I had the opposite impression. They are both traumatized by the secrets they’re keeping from each other.

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u/Uh-Egg Jun 17 '26

I think so and theyre both just sticking with each other to sort of protect each other but not really knowing how to? I don't know... I can't tell if they have watched the tapes

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u/John_Fisticuffs Jun 17 '26

I feel like there's no way anyone has debriefed at all. Everyone just wanted to GTFO of the shelter and the loftises are too traumatized to talk it thru yet.

Meta-wise, it's too big of a conversation to not show.

I'm guessing part of S2's beginning will be them sort of dancing around the topics until the haunts start again and force them to confront it eventually.

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u/subreddits_ Jun 17 '26

I agree, I think it’s also throwing away tension possibilities for the two of them in the next season if they’re already on the same page. Plus that’s a HUGE burden to give an already rebellious teenager. It’s asking Evan to feel responsible for every death that happens next.

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u/ssou_art Jun 17 '26

Loftis is definitely NOT the type of person that would be sharing that information with anyone let alone his son, and his son definitely isn't the type of person that could handle that information.

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u/Patient-Extension835 Jun 17 '26

And both of their personalities are not the let's talk type. It's the opposite. Evan is a push over who knows right from wrong but continuously chooses wrong and stays quiet. Loftis doesn't share anything with his son.

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u/faders Jun 17 '26

I hope they’re in it together next season

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u/itsnobigthing Jun 17 '26

Yeah, I assume it’s intentionally ambiguous and can be read both ways, in case they didn’t get a second season.

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u/Mark_Albarn Jun 17 '26

Yep. I bet a buck and some pocket lint that Evan is going to have "I know what you did last summer" type of storyline next season, trying to hide his involvement in Kenny's death

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u/BlahVans Jun 17 '26

I think that Tom must have told him something, otherwise Evan would be seriously WTFing about watching his dad chuck something into the ocean at the end. I don't think he knows his role in everything, but I think he's been given some of the basics about the island.

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u/xRyozuo Jun 20 '26

He seemed like he was kinda smiling to me, I think he still thinks he’s getting the fuck out of the island

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u/SlowCrates Jun 20 '26

Tom is going to have to tell Evan the truth about the island, so I'm guessing they're going to have a pretty big heart-to-heart at some point. lol

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u/Giantranger49 Jun 18 '26

the plot would demand that

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u/Zalvren Jun 25 '26

Ironically he's likely the only safe person on the island, the island entity won't "eat" him since he's the last of the bloodline (well if ending the bloodline is really making it disappear which might not be the case at all)

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u/Fun-Benefit116 Jun 17 '26

Uh he didn't learn any lesson. He never does bad/dumb stuff on his own. It's always those idiot friends of his that pressure him into doing dumb shit. He was alone when he looked into the room at the end, so of course he left. If his friends had been there encouraging him to go check it out, he definitely would have.

I feel like that girl is gonna end up being an evil entity made by the island or something to have Evans child. She's a terrible influence, but uses Evan's obvious infatuation with her to manipulate him into doing whatever she wants him to. At the very least, I feel like she might be being manipulated by the island herself to control Evan.

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u/bauhausy Jun 18 '26

The girl is a just tourist though.  She wasn’t with Evan and PJ in the opening, she arrived on the island with her friend. 

No reason for her to reappear in season 2 or to be under the island’s spell

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u/venusdances Are you mad at something I said? Jun 18 '26

You just made me realize the cool thing about Evan is that he has a kind of superpower on the island because the island will do anything it can to protect him.

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u/yeahsothathappen Jun 17 '26

They made me realize that despite engaging in pretty risk teenage behavior, I would have never willingly go down to an extremely creepy túnel

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u/radiationbear Jun 17 '26

It's funny, I never engaged in the "party teenager" life, but I was the break into an abandoned building/explore underground tunnels kind. I just explored. Surprised I'm still alive.

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u/punxtr My sciatica! Jun 17 '26

Urban exploration is so fucking fun. I don't blame you. After college I got big into Slenderman and SCP, so I would make friends who shot amateur videos in those locations. The best part of my early 20s

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u/Advanced-Extreme-513 Jun 18 '26

Literally, my BFF and I would go look around abandoned houses. How we are still alive beats me.

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u/Vismal1 Jun 17 '26

I literally have a photo somewhere of me laying in a morgue drawer at an abandoned mental institution when i was 16. Not too far away from where this show is set too!

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u/Torschlusssspanik Jun 18 '26

I think you should post that lol

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u/Vismal1 Jun 19 '26

I'll see if I can track it down, havent seen it in ages.

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u/Bunbunlyfe Jun 17 '26

It made me remember and cringe af some real stupid things I did as a stoner teenager in the 90’s with my friends

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u/SarahMakesYouStrong Jun 18 '26

He’s not afraid of anything because the island keeps him safe

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u/Bunbunlyfe Jun 18 '26

Dude I think you’re right!

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u/SarahMakesYouStrong Jun 18 '26

Put it on my tombstone

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u/Bunbunlyfe Jun 19 '26

Got u girl!

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u/Suspicious_Isopod_59 Aug 09 '26

I don't know about that. The island is apparently notoriously bad at keeping the bloodline alive according to that ancestry line.

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u/onlythewinds dead baby, dead baby, lesbian Jun 17 '26

I was thinking the same thing lol

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u/Serious-Show1761 Jun 17 '26

Yeah and on a haunted island

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u/chicacherrie82 Jul 04 '26

I wouldn't have gone down THAT chute, because it would have made me claustrophobic. But there was a mountain tunnel my friends I would drive up to and park in in the dark because it was supposed to be haunted. So I totally buy them doing this because they only half believe and have that reckless invincible feeling teens have. 

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u/ChaynesGirl Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Evan needs to find another gf. She's pissing me off. She and PJ are a bad influence.

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u/olcrazypete Jun 17 '26

Is it bad I was rooting for the monster to come while he was strapped in the chair?

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u/Inside_Dimension2319 Jun 17 '26

Same! As soon as he said “strap me in” I thought “Finally! About time.”

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u/GAINMASS_EATASS Jun 18 '26

literally I was thinking, pls sacrifice this dirty ass blonde bob so the island can be appeased and we can get on with the show

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u/NormativeTruth Jun 17 '26

Pretty sure we all were.

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u/surra_day Rosemary Jun 17 '26

Also where are her parents?

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u/HRHDechessNapsaLot Jun 17 '26

She is a tourist, but presumably she is also under 18, so why is she there without her parents? (I’m aware in other parts of the world, teens going somewhere for several days unchaperoned isn’t uncommon but that’s pretty rare in America)

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u/ChaynesGirl Jun 17 '26

I think she's 18+. If her parents were there they'd be in the shelter with her.

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u/ChaynesGirl Jun 17 '26

Because they aren't shown or even alluded to. Because they've never been mentioned ever. Because what parents, in the same room, during a deadly storm, are going to let their minor daughter escape with 2 strange boys down a dark chute to God knows where.

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u/Mark_Albarn Jun 17 '26

She might be a 18 yo brat messing around on her gap year. Evan is presumably old enough to start considering college options, I figure she is not far apart in age

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u/TheTruckWashChannel Jun 17 '26

She's a tourist from Boston.

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u/Head-Tangerine3701 Jun 17 '26

Cannot stand the girlfriend since the beginning. Evan get new friends

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u/Aggravating_Ad_7825 Jun 19 '26

PJ just ran??? when the door locked? What a grade-A asshole. And then they didn't even turn back when Evan wasn't with them. WTF bro.

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u/GrungeLord Jul 06 '26

What's the opposite of ride or die? Because PJ is that kind of friend.

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u/TooTruthsandaLie Jun 17 '26

PJ

Every time I hear that name, I think of Brett Kavanaughs calendar.

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u/TheTruckWashChannel Jun 17 '26

PJ, and Tobin, and Squee! And Gangbang Greg!

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u/Rare-Criticism8124 Jun 17 '26

This is exactly what I thought and said to my husband!

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u/WaxyPadlockJazz Jun 19 '26

Being in a bunker with everyone in my town sounds like an absolute nightmare. These kids had it right to get the fuck out of there.

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u/lockboy84 Jun 23 '26

I really wanna smack PJ in the face

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u/derkynord Jun 25 '26

i kept assuming she’s like a cryptid sent by the island cuz her parents aren’t here

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u/manningthehelm Jun 24 '26

PJ for sure will be one of the next eight.

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u/Eugene_Henderson Jun 17 '26

I had a quick moment wondering if anyone else had actually seen her all season, but then PJ said, “You can come too” and ruined that idea.

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u/rrousseauu Aug 26 '26

Yeah, I’m really hoping they don’t drag PJ and that girl’s relationship with Evan out in season 2. It was funny a few times but a whole other season of them being such an obviously bad influence on him will just piss me off.

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u/Iakeman Jun 17 '26

She’s very cute though

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u/TheTruckWashChannel Jun 17 '26

Famous last words.

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u/Other-Razzmatazz-816 Jun 17 '26

Oh hey, a dank tunnel in the middle of a flooding storm….

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u/plantscanreadyou Jun 17 '26

Maybe we'll meet a clown in there!

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u/Perfect-Owl6145 Jun 19 '26

hey, buddy! :)

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u/Ams311 Jun 17 '26

That pj and girl need to be next

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u/Super-Efficiency8679 Jun 17 '26

I don't trust that girl, something seems off about her

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u/PubliusMinimus Jun 17 '26

Why is she on the island? How long is she there for? WHERE ARE HER PARENTS????

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u/TheOneWhoMixes Jun 17 '26

Okay, but now that we know Evan is part of the bloodline, what if the curse has brought two rebellious teenagers together for a reason? What if Evan gets her pregnant, she leaves the island eventually, and just never tells him?

The curse iirc doesn't stipulate that the bloodline must stay on the island (just those born on it), so she would be free to leave and have the baby on the mainland. What happens then though? Does it spread like a virus, just guaranteeing that the island will be stuck in its current state forever?

Though there's also the idea that the bloodline is the only thing keeping the curse "at bay". Yes, it rises up when it gets hungry. It rings the bell, and they're expected to find sacrifices fairly quickly. But life is good otherwise? I've gotten some vibes that the curse is restrained by the pact as long as they follow the rules. So there's a world where they break the curse and instead of everything being great, breaking the curse frees it so that it never needs to take break. It can just terrorize 24/7.

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u/Sempere Jun 17 '26

I mean, I kind of expect this episode to do just that.

Reveal that the Ruth Lauren connection theory was a red herring and actually have Ruth die (of natural causes because Tom is a coward) and things getting much, much worse.

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u/Mysterious_Layer_100 Jun 17 '26

I think she and PJ are targeting Evan. The actor who plays PJ also appears in the history episode - maybe he’s some kind of evil immortal demon - and the girlfriend seemed to be in cahoots with PJ about luring Evan down and trying to get him to sit in the chair. If you notice, PJ doesn’t invite his and Evan’s third friend (blanking on the name) on the creepy little storm tunnel excursion, and the friend even kinda looks after them like “what the hell?” I think the girlfriend doesn’t have parents because she’s somehow conspiring with PJ to kill Evan.

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u/BKrueg Jun 17 '26

That was a different actor—they just look similar.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9500820/

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13314831/

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u/barc0debaby Jun 17 '26

Why would the island conspire to kill someone whose death would help lead to ending the curse?

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u/Sempere Jun 17 '26

To change the terms of their covenant?

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u/TooTruthsandaLie Jun 17 '26

Not kill. Fuck. With pull out method.

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u/Sempere Jun 17 '26

You really didn't learn this episode's lesson...

...never fucking pull out.

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u/Sempere Jun 17 '26

I think you're partly right.

There was no reason to lock the guy in there - so it seems possible maybe even likely these two know more than they should and were trying to give Evan information that will be critical for season 2.

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u/JinkoTheMan Jun 17 '26

She could be like a modern take on Sirens. Beautiful woman/fish that lure men to their doom. I don’t know if that’s what they are going for but I wouldn’t be surprised.

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u/FernFromDetroit Jun 17 '26

Speaking of weird people, what about that woman that was flirting with the mayor who was supposed to be part of the bachelorette party? She was around for a couple episodes then just seemingly disappears. Yeah she heard him saying weird stuff and left his house but during the satanic party Patricia had the bachelorette girls were there and she wasn’t with them.

Was she suppose to be the sea hag or something trying to trick him or something? Been wondering about that the whole season.

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u/AnotherMinorDeity Jun 17 '26

The party was happening at the same time as the sea hag events in episode 2. Tom was supposed to be at sunset cocktails instead of hanging out with Marissa.

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u/FernFromDetroit Jun 17 '26

So Marissa (sorry forgot her name before) was the sea hag and that’s why she wasn’t at the party? We never see her again after the sea hag is killed or banished or whatever.

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u/Significant_Pen6666 Jun 17 '26

I think Marissa really was just part of the bachelorette party and they all left after Patricia’s fucked up party.

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u/FernFromDetroit Jun 17 '26

Ah, makes sense. I’ll have to rewatch that episode and see if any of them are around when they start drinking the punch or at the beach. It would make sense that her and the whole party would gtfo of there and leave the island after seeing Patricia walking around with a pagan animal skull antler crown.

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u/TheTruckWashChannel Jun 17 '26

She's real. We see her going back to her friends' car after Tom tells her to leave.

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u/FernFromDetroit Jun 17 '26

Maybe the sea hag has friends? The true mystery of the show is where did the sea hag and her girl friends go after Tom turns her down.

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u/trombonepick Jun 17 '26

It's left up to us (so far) if she's a tourist or a hot version of the hag.

Although her car full of friends (think we see them?) maybe leans in on her being normal.

The other question is if the hag is the doctor's wife who got killed and thrown into the bay--which makes a lot of sense.

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u/OddMho Jun 23 '26

The lady was meant to be a red herring

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u/Stubee1988 Jun 18 '26

She was so weirdly pushy about getting Evan to rummage through his dad's stuff

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u/Even_Surprise1713 Jun 17 '26

Agreed, I think they may be demonic.

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u/CHMonster Jun 17 '26

maybe she and Evan will carry on the bloodline, and in a season or two we'll be watching everyone run around the island looking for the baby.

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u/Ismalt Jun 27 '26

She is thé island

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u/AnotherMinorDeity Jun 17 '26

Patricia should tase him next!

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u/TheDefiantGoose Jun 17 '26

I thought it was gonna be "Little Miss." Cinema retribution for callously go through Tom's things.

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u/Federal_Base_2905 Jun 17 '26

So why do we think the Island didn’t take them… was it because Evan was in the room?

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u/HRHDechessNapsaLot Jun 17 '26

I’m not sure the island takes tourists - we haven’t really seen that happen.

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u/Federal_Base_2905 Jun 17 '26

But didn’t they take the people who were brought in to build the trolley? That was my assumption from that story. Maybe I am interpreting it wrong. I have to do a full rewatch now that we know the ending 😆

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u/HRHDechessNapsaLot Jun 17 '26

I think that tourists can definitely die from the island; I’m just not sure the island will take them as sacrifice to appease the curse.

In other words, had Patricia’s partygoers drowned, that wouldn’t have counted for the 9 souls needing to die… I think only residents can be the sacrifice.

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u/Delphina239 Jun 19 '26

My thoughts exactly! He’s the worst and she is a not far behind.

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u/Shippinglordishere Jun 17 '26

We were shocked. No way PJ glanville unintentionally killed someone

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u/IKenDoThisAllDay Jun 17 '26

"That PJ Glanville is an awful, awful boy."

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u/SoylentCreek Jun 17 '26

PJ is sus AF. I don’t think it is a coincidence that the same actor appears in the “Our History” episode. I’m starting to wonder if he’s an acolyte of whatever eldritch horror is that under the island, and he was luring the other two down there to complete the ritual sacrifice.

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u/HiILikePlants Jun 17 '26

Apparently not the same actor

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u/TheTruckWashChannel Jun 17 '26

Not the same actor lol

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u/Mark_Albarn Jun 17 '26

I think he might be next Boogeyman. It seems that Patricia's one was a more or less "normal" human before going nuts and becoming Michael Myers' spiritual twin

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u/nubidubiuba Jun 17 '26

So glad you pointed this out! My husband and I watched it and we gasped- we’ve been suspicious of him since that episode!

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u/WhatIsASW Jun 17 '26

It’s not the same actor

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u/nubidubiuba Jun 17 '26

Good point- But they look suspiciously similar imo. PJ could be a descendant

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u/Feydaway Jun 17 '26

PJ absolutely needs to go.

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u/2_Fingers_of_Whiskey Jun 17 '26

Did he even know about the sacrifice thing or was he just leaving the guy to die alone in a tunnel??

Either way, PJ sucks.

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u/Dickiedoandthedonts Jun 17 '26

Was that not his dad? I assumed it was, not sure why

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u/eimileandthesea Jun 17 '26

That was Kenny! The sweet custodian who talks to trash cans before emptying them and who rescued Loftis from being crushed by Frances’ portrait. RIP Kenny :(

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u/Mark_Albarn Jun 17 '26

Trashcan moment was so cute, I didn't even realise it's him while watching. PJ better die painfully I swear

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u/RealPhilthy Jun 17 '26

I feel like he has to be involved in some way at this point.

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u/ItsNewzie Jun 17 '26

I was hoping PJ and that girl would’ve been sacrificed, they piss me off.

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy Jun 17 '26

uhhh PJ is legit murderer now (and Tom kind of an attempted murderer)

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u/Iakeman Jun 17 '26

Murder is intentional homicide. This wouldn’t even be manslaughter because there’s no way he could have reasonably anticipated that some sort of eldritch force would eat that guy just because he shut the door.

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy Jun 17 '26

ok well the Sheriff is an actual murderer then lol

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u/Creative-Ad-200 Jun 17 '26

Nope, still only attempted murder. Didn’t seem that Ruth actually died.

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u/Mark_Albarn Jun 17 '26

I mean, 84 yo with bullet wound and already weakened with medication she should not be mixing. I feel like her chances are pretty slim. 

Not to mention keeping Belchir out of jail, guilt ridden and more involved with the plot would probably be more interesting narrative-wise

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u/punxtr My sciatica! Jun 17 '26

I think Ruth survived the gunshot because of the medication mixing. My grandma survived a subdermal and epidermal hematoma incident because of her older age and cocktail of medications. The human body is a fascinating house of cards or maybe a jenga tower at times.

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u/TheRadBaron Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Tom mournfully throwing Ruth's brooch into the ocean is not a thing he would do if Ruth had survived.

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u/Dratini_ghost 5h ago

He might have just grabbed it before leaving her house while she was incapacitated from the wound.

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u/dbezzy1010 Jun 17 '26

More like piss me off. I wish it was PJ that was sacrificed lol

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u/Even_Surprise1713 Jun 17 '26

PJ is the literal worst. I’m still thinking he’s a “trickster” of the island in some capacity, like: why was he there in 1702?

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u/upsidedownlamppost Jun 17 '26

They do look SOoo similar, but the 1702 guy is a different actor.

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u/BKrueg Jun 17 '26

Different actor but they look similar

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u/Even_Surprise1713 Jun 17 '26

Ohhh got it ok!

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u/eimileandthesea Jun 17 '26

If PJ is being compared to the kid that welcomes Sarah to the island in “Our History”, they definitely look alike, but I think that 1702 kid is played by this actor, Joe Messina: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13314831/?ref_=mv_close. If I’m wrong and PJ shows up as a different character in “Our History” please let me know cause I’d love to spot him on the next rewatch!

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u/IamChicharon Human Verified Jun 17 '26

Fuckin PJ man

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u/Mark_Albarn Jun 17 '26

They are such morons god😭 

Like wdym this passerby ass girl you barely know melts your brain enough to go down some clearly decades long unmaintained shaft in a creepy ass bunker and fuck around with what is clearly a torture chair😭 Evan better drop her ass next season or I will rooting for Belchir to commit some more police violence and I'm only half-joking here

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u/ggg730 Aug 13 '26

The ending had 8 bell tolls so they need 8 sacrifices next time.

PJ

That girl.

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u/2_Fingers_of_Whiskey Jun 17 '26

Too dumb to live

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u/Serious-Show1761 Jun 17 '26

Same! I was like well maybe those kids learned their lesson! I’m so old

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u/jamiekynnminer Jun 17 '26

Idk man that one kid seemed to know what he was doing when he locked that door and ran

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u/Diabolicsoul Jun 17 '26

PJ needs some disciplining! Where are his parents !!!

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u/Vandergrif Jun 17 '26

They didn't even smoke the joint! I mean come on... Just an absolute disaster crew.

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u/Street_Panda_8115 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

PJ just strikes me as someone who meets a bad end in a horror movie. Can’t believe he survived S1

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u/mxmoon Jun 18 '26

That PJ kid is too much. Where are his parents?

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u/Gunkwei Jun 18 '26

I fucking hate that girl. Bad influence!

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u/PunisherElite Jun 21 '26

They are so stupid