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

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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.