Apple TV dropped a teaser for Widow’s Bay earlier this month, and the horror series looked predictably scary with ominous music paired with chilling sequences in a New England island town. But there’s a moment at the end of the trailer that telegraphed that the series is not a typical jump scare show.
“I don’t understand,” says Matthew Rhys, playing the town’s mayor, Tom Loftis, who is perplexed by the tale of a killer sea hag. “How do you die?” Stephen Root’s character has a surprising answer: “She crawls into your bed and sits on your face.”
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The punchline is indicative of a level of comedy infused throughout in creator Katie Dippold’s Widow’s Bay. The series is set in, well, Widow’s Bay, which is 40-miles off the coast of New England. Mayor Tom Loftis (Rhys) is desperate to revive his struggling
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