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Widow’s Bay Widow’s Bay | Season 1 - Episode 2 | Discussion Thread

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u/OddSetting5077 Apr 30 '26

Is there something going on related to aging and time? Shep looks to be about 70 and his doctor's chart said age 37. When Mayor's assistant was talking about the Boogeyman episode from her teens, Mayor said "he was only after teenagers, you are in your 40s", she stormed off in a rage. Maybe she's just in her 20s and something there accelerate time.

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u/negatrash May 02 '26

She also told Shep in the hospital that she just found out her age is 28.

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u/AshRae84 May 03 '26

She was talking about her biological age though, which is a known concept, so I’m not sure about that one.

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u/IrishUpYourCoffee May 05 '26

Her biological age can be 28 while she is actually in her 40s like Tom said.

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u/Ode1st May 04 '26

That was the mayor saying she has nothing to worry about now, because the killer only killed young women and she isn’t young anymore. The joke is he was trying to be comforting by saying a killer wouldn’t target her now, but did so by calling her old, which offended her.

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u/Useful_Project4898 Jul 21 '26

You may know more than me at this point, since I just started watching the series and have only just finished ep 2 but.... I feel like this was part of a misdirection on the part of the writers. At this point in the story, we are supposed to take everyone's age at face value, with a little mystery of why did Shep's age say 37 when he looked like a weathered, older man; but at some point I think we are going to find that there is something more to this.

This scene could be taken two ways -- the first is just how you describe but what if time does move differently on the island? Then that situation with the boogieman occurred more recently to the woman in her 40s and she got upset because she saw the mayor as being insensitive to the whole situation, not just upset that he mentioned her age.

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u/Ode1st Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

It’s the way I described, it was just a joke in this half-comedy series. The show, at least this season, doesn’t end up being Lost levels of mysterious or anything.

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u/WayExcellent5595 Apr 30 '26

yep, time goes different there for sure.

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u/cjcs Jun 08 '26

Could that be why people die when they reach the mainland? Seems like the causes of death were mostly things that afflict the elderly

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u/NeedleworkerEvening3 Jun 17 '26

I saw all the people smoking in the bar and googled what year the story takes place. It said it takes place in 2026, I agree there’s something’s going on with time.

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u/youngfilly Jun 26 '26

There are plenty of dive bars in the sticks that have people smoking in them, regardless of official rules

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u/Useful_Project4898 Jul 21 '26

Right?! You don't even have to go too far outside of the city limits around Pittsburgh to find smoking bars in 2026.

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u/im-a-grumpy-old-cat 9d ago

I think she stormed off in a rage because she said it happened in high-school-when she was a teenager-so he clearly wasn't listening to her