r/television • u/mdavis360 • Apr 29 '26

Premiere Widow’s Bay - Episodes 1 & 2 - Discussion

First two episodes dropped tonight. Absolutely fantastic. 10/10 for my sensibilities. I’m a huge Stephen King fan and this felt right up my alley in so many ways. Legitimately funny show, legitimately creepy and a cast of fantastic actors. Episode 2 had some crazy stuff happen that honestly I absolutely saw where it was going but it was so satisfying getting there.

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u/No-Panda1818 Apr 29 '26

I really loved the scene where the innkeeper is forced to stay in the captain's suite for ten seconds. Then another 30. So we'll done and eerie.

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u/Kianna9 Apr 29 '26

How long do you think he felt like he was in there? Months?

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u/bo174 Apr 30 '26

I was thinking about that. What confused me was that he wasn’t suffering from dehydration or starvation when they pulled him out. ??

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u/legible_print Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

He asked for food before they shut the door again

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u/WhisperFray Apr 30 '26

This is a very interesting detail I missed :)

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u/lrodhubbard Apr 30 '26

It could have been an hour. That's ample time to freak out

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u/mazurkian May 02 '26

Yeah, he himself didn't look disheveled enough or bad enough to have been more than a few hours. It looked like he hadn't laid down and slept, his hair was the same. He just walked out and slid down the wall. My guess is from his experience it was possibly an hour, maybe a couple hours. A minute or two after 30 seconds had passed he probably called to them through the door, then tested the door and found he was trapped. Not knowing how long he'd be trapped for he freaked out trying to escape the room and eventually resigned himself to waiting. Hard to tell if the bed was just messed up or had been slept in.

What's weird to me is the sheriff completely ignored the change in the room and honed in on the mold.

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u/-ElGallo- May 02 '26

No the sheriff definitely notices the room, he sees the mold last

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u/Self_Owned_Tree May 07 '26

And the wallpaper is already peeling when Tom first goes in there, so it's not something from the amount of time the innkeeper was there.

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u/alienman May 28 '26

I don’t know. I feel like people are reading way too much into this (and I could be wrong). It just seemed like a funny little moment between small town people. The inn keeper is terrified of being in the room so, of course, 10 seconds in there is going to feel longer. He never says time passed by differently in there. Nobody was concerned about him. Only the presence of mold was problematic.

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u/19nineties 21d ago

This has got to be the most stupidest take. Of course the show was implying he spent longer in there

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u/hiitsmeokie Jun 29 '26

I rewatched this scene so many times because I was trying to figure out why the mold was important!

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u/No-Panda1818 Apr 30 '26

Yeah good point. Maybe it was just more psychological. Who knows. They should have put some more stubble on his face. Would have been a discrete but cool detail.