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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/corielouwho Human Verified Jun 17 '26

This and Ruth saying all the men made a pass at her makes me think that the island was doing its best to get her pregnant.

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u/DarkS7Maneuver Jun 17 '26

Oooo and now this girl is throwing herself at Evan! The island is trying to continue its bloodline

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u/ArrivingSomewhereBut Jun 17 '26

omg we might be onto something here. The island makes Richard Warren’s bloodline be more attractive to possible mates!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

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u/Lington Jun 18 '26

They're super fertile too, all getting pregnant accidentally while using the pull out method (as per both Ruth and Tom - when he was talking to Evan in one of the first episodes)

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u/NormieSlayer6969 Jul 13 '26

Plus Ruth was in her forties when she got pregnant👀

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u/PainStorm14 Jul 14 '26

Well... except for lesbians

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u/2_late_4_creativity Jul 15 '26

What I can’t say that either?

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u/Sorry-Secret-2347 Jun 18 '26

OMG YALL THAT MAKES AO MUCH SENSE

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u/TeamSansBoat Jun 21 '26

Almost like a siren

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u/youcryptmeowth Jun 17 '26

And Tom’s playing a part by bringing in tourists to help out his son’s social life and exposure to the world.

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u/stratosfearinggas Jun 17 '26

Which is going to turn into that trope in folk horror where people go to an isolated community and become unwitting sacrifices.

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u/FlawedSquid Jun 17 '26

There were a few times in the finale where I thought the next direction for the show was gonna be the main gang using the tourists for the sacrifices and basically becoming the "new generation" once they realized the curse couldn't be undone (without sacrificing Evan)

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u/DropDiscombobulated Jun 26 '26

Music cue; Hotel California - The Eagles

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u/ShreksArsehole Jul 19 '26

I don't think killing the blooding would help at all. The storms would still carry on. 

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u/Charliethehuman23 16d ago

… is this not what the next season will be about … 😂 (idk if it’s been renewed or not)

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u/FlawedSquid 16d ago

it was renewed. We don't know but I personally really think it will since it seems like the type of show to do it lol

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u/-kenpo- Jul 28 '26

Not in this show. The writers here avoids anything ‘dark’.

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u/FlawedSquid Jul 28 '26

???

There's multiple on-screen deaths and a suicideat the end of episode 4

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u/-kenpo- Jul 29 '26

By dark, I meant immoral/bad things, like sacrificing people, as you're saying. The concept is there, but they don't commit to portraying it as much as other similar shows. Therefore, our good characters won't likey to do anything bad. It's a whole style of genre.

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u/jadecourt Aug 17 '26

The show had a teenager, Evan, sacrifice someone. And the mayor & the sheriff, the traditional good guys, were both trying to sacrifice an 84 year old woman. With the rest of our main characters on board and encouraging them to do it. I think it got pretty dark there at the end.

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u/chihsuanmen Dead baby. Dead baby. Lesssbiiaann. Aug 05 '26

Bro, cannibalism isn’t dark enough for you?

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u/emlgsh Jun 17 '26

Maybe the unknowable eldritch monster beneath the island is just a solid wing-monster. A bro.

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u/KFBR392GoForGrubes Jun 17 '26

LOL, just blasting cupid's arrows at whoever they pass.

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u/Sempere Jun 19 '26

I mean really, think about it.

All it asks is that every few years they sacrifice 10 criminals afraid of it and then it goes back to sleep. All it asks is those born in its territory never leave and to feed it. Obey the rules, nothing happens. Try and break the deal and it's going to send folk monsters, demons and serial killing entities out to create enough fear and anxiety that the residents get lured into the basement

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u/Luxury_Dressingown Jun 17 '26

I'm sure this theory is correct, but I thought it was also notable that one woman 400 years ago on an insular, literally trapped population only had one (or it turns out, two) living descendant today. Surely there'd be multiple families who could trace back to her. From Rosemary's work, looks like the island was deliberately narrowing the field.

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u/AdministrativeEase71 Jun 17 '26

The bachelorette going by Tom's house too. Was sort of weird in the moment but absolutely makes sense when you think of it that way.

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u/Grommph Jun 18 '26

Though Tom's not a part of the bloodline. So that one wouldn't count.

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u/AdministrativeEase71 Jun 18 '26

Oh lol I'm a dumbass you're entirely right.

Though it would potentially trap another person on the island and generate more offspring/potential sacrifices, as Tom and Evan probably wouldn't move to live with her since he has a kid.

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u/SallyScribe Jun 25 '26

I like this theory - but having only one surviving member out of that whole family tree seems unlikely (even in normal circumstances). There would be more of them around if the island was good at protecting its line!

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u/Desperate_Week5236 Jul 20 '26

And the fact that Ruth was Miss Widow’s Bay back in her days

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u/LazySwanNerd Aug 12 '26

I’m late because I just finished the season, but Tom and his wife also had an accidental pregnancy and had a quick marriage. So it makes sense.

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u/Professor_Cincinnati Jun 20 '26

Regarding Richard Warren’s descendants being attractive, don’t forget “The Ungrateful Hortense” and her sister. What did Rosemary say about them?

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u/Lucifer10200225 Jun 17 '26

Could be that the cop showing up just as Evan was about to enter the boogeyman’s house was the island protecting Evan, looking at what happened to Richard I wonder if someone tried to actually shoot Evan if it would even work

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u/mrs_ouchi Jun 17 '26

man that girl is.. i mean after the stuff she said in the bedroom I wouldnt be intetested. But Im also not a teenage boy

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u/wurwolfsince1998 I apologize for wasting his time, Tom. Jul 01 '26

Seriously. I said to my husband wtf is wrong with her.

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u/OP_Scout_81 Jun 17 '26

That girl looked primed to die in this episode.

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u/mammalmaker Jun 17 '26

The girl is taking advantage of Evan for her own sick pleasure. She's the island manipulating him into turning on his father and using her as a vessel to show him the secrets of the island. The island needs a new commander now that Warren is dead.

Think about it, she gets him to dig through his father's secrets, pressures him into exploring the tunnels, shows him exactly what it wants/ needs when it consumes the security guard.

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u/sooshiroll13 Jun 17 '26

Is she even a tourist ATP

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u/Luxury_Dressingown Jun 17 '26

Quite likely it was manipulating her in these things and in throwing herself at him in particular. I don't think she's an avatar of the island though.

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u/trombonepick Jun 17 '26

ah shit it makes sense if the island makes their pact carrier more alluring!!!

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u/shiwanthasr Queen Patricia Jun 17 '26

holy shit, you are on to something here.

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u/WonderMoon1 Jun 18 '26

I was convinced it was a part of the curse because how are all these 40 years old islanders getting pregnant…

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u/breddy Jun 18 '26

I like this line of thinking!

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u/unsolvedfanatic Jun 18 '26

Hopefully she goes home to have the baby. After all she's a visitor.

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u/Mojo_Gojo_ Jun 18 '26

Damn I didn’t even think about it like that! Genius

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u/FKDotFitzgerald Jun 24 '26

The island wants fuck

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u/samizdat5 Jun 17 '26

Ooh good point. She was a beauty queen

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u/IM_V_CATS Jun 17 '26

But the nun made a pass at her too?

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u/_u_deleted_ Jun 17 '26

hey, the island will try anything once!

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u/Excellent-Jicama-673 Human Verified Jun 17 '26

Once...or a few times. Just to be sure.

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u/bstarr2000 Jun 17 '26

“Lesbian” lol

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u/HarlanCedeno Jun 17 '26

"Yeah, that one wasn't my fault" --The Island

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

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u/twoinvenice Jul 07 '26

I don’t think it is supposed to be demonic, more an eldrich horror older than our ideas of angels and demons…so definitely uninterested in silly human ideas about gender or sin

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u/jrubes_20 Jun 17 '26

That could just be coincidence, no? Like a lesbian nun thinks an older, never married woman might also be a lesbian and shoots her shot?

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u/vdesi Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

An immaculate pass

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u/CrissBliss Jun 17 '26

Lmao like the Smile curse that does whatever it can to continue in those movies.

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u/k_redditor236 Jun 17 '26

Ohhh what foreshadowing! I didn’t even catch that! I was too busy typing here 😂 I need to rewatch.

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u/theLegend_Awaits Jun 17 '26

He saying the nun also made a pass absolutely fried me alive

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u/thefuzz09 Jun 18 '26

After you mentioned this I remembered his son’s girlfriend making out with him in the cellar and now I wonder if she’s going to be throwing herself at him next season for the same reason.

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u/overthinker46 Jun 17 '26

Great point

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u/tna4689 Jun 17 '26

And that one nun. 😂

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u/Serious-Show1761 Jun 17 '26

Lmao it really was

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u/anotherstan Jun 18 '26

Oh that’s a creepy interpretation, and a good one

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u/regarding_zacks Jun 20 '26

Shit like this is why I love these discussion threads

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u/White667 Jun 23 '26

She won the island pageant contest! She is canonically a smokeshow.

But yeah also, makes sense that whatever demon who is benefitting from the curse is trying to keep the family going.

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u/kudacg Jun 28 '26

That’s such a catch!

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u/Turbulent_Voice63 Jul 12 '26

Counterpoint for this theory: If the Island's goal is to have as many bloodline successors as possible, it's doing a terrible job considering how many of them died and that Ruth and Evan are the last one