previously told Gold Derby<\/a>, “We spent so much time in the writers’ room thinking about the history of this island. … In Widow’s Bay, there are some horrific events in the timeline that could be a throwaway joke, but that could come back to be its own terrifying episode.”<\/p>\nIn other words, there may have already been some hints about Season 2 peppered in throughout the first season. That means it’s time for a re-watch!<\/p>\n
UPDATE: JULY 25 AT 8:30 P.M. PT<\/p>\n
One day after Dippold announced the Season 2 scoop, most of the cast appeared at Comic-Con for a fun panel: Dale Dickey (Rosemary), Stephen Root (Wyck Crawford), Kevin Carroll (Bechir Clemmons), Kingston Rumi Southwick (Evan Loftis), Jeff Hiller (Dale), and K Callan (Ruth Livingston). Dippold and director-producer Hiro Murai also attended. Matthew Rhys (Mayor Tom Loftis) wasn’t able to appear in person, though he Zoomed in.<\/p>\n
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Dale Dickey and Jeff Hiller at 2026 Comic-Con<\/p>\n
Here are select quotes from the Widow’s Bay panel, which was moderated by Josh Horowitz and took place inside the enormous Hall H:<\/p>\n
Josh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0Your show \u2014 unbelievable! All those Emmy nominations. You can’t ever expect something like this. I\u00a0have to\u00a0ask\u00a0first of all, what was your reaction to that side of it? Literally 19 Emmy nominations. How did you react?<\/p>\nKatie Dippold<\/strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0I was\u00a0pretty floored. That was very exciting. Dale, I think you had the best reaction.<\/p>\nDale Dickey<\/strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0“Dear God in heaven, what the hell just happened?”<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0The best version of surprise, though, right? Did any of you have a moment where you realized, “Oh wow, this show has penetrated the zeitgeist. This is happening”? Any moments in the last few months?<\/p>\nKatie Dippold:<\/strong>\u00a0God, it’s just been wild. I don’t know \u2014 it’s just been crazy. I’m mumbling and rambling right now.<\/p>\nHiro Murai:<\/strong>\u00a0My\u00a0mom\u00a0in Japan, who’s never texted me about anything I’ve worked on, texted me how much she loved the show. Something is happening.<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0It’s amazing. I think it became a water-cooler show. Day by day, somebody would come up and talk about the show, and then it became this whole thing. You all probably felt great about what you did, but you never know, right? This is unusual \u2014 the tone you guys hit. It must be so satisfying that your weird, crazy blend of genres somehow just resonated with folks.<\/p>\nKatie Dippold<\/strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0It’s fun. I always predict \u2014 will this show get made? When we were taking it out, we didn’t know that anyone was going to buy it. But then we got this amazing group, and I would never have predicted that we’d be at Comic-Con.<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0Obviously, this was always meant to be. This show has been in your head for a long, long time. Talk to me a little about how it compares to your initial ideas \u2014 how it evolved all the way to this.<\/p>\nKatie Dippold:<\/strong>\u00a0The first version was a spec for\u00a0Parks and Recreation, but it was more \u2014 it started off that everyone knew it was a haunted town.\u00a0There was no Wyck in that version.<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0Big blasphemy. Really? Stephen’s angry, I can see.<\/p>\nKatie Dippold<\/strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0Burn every copy.<\/p>\nStephen Root:<\/strong>\u00a0I love you.\u00a0<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:\u00a0<\/strong>The show, as I alluded to, nails a very specific tone with its unique blend of comedy and horror, and yet it all feels normal and just works on screen. I’m curious \u2014 on set, how did it feel? Did you all feel like you were on the same page immediately with what you were making?<\/p>\nStephen Root:<\/strong>\u00a0I think that’s what Hiro did. He put us all on the same page, walking the line between comedy and horror and drama. The tone of the show is everything. And if you get the tone of the show, you’re going to get the show.<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0For the rest of you \u2014 Jeff, Kay, all of you \u2014 I’d love to hear what it felt like on set. Did it feel like, “Oh yeah, we’re now in this very unusual tone,” or were you surprised how it turned out?<\/p>\nK Callan:<\/strong>\u00a0First of all, I was never on set with anybody else except Matthew, so I just felt like this is\u00a0pretty cool. It felt kind of normal to me. I couldn’t\u00a0tell\u00a0about anybody else, and it all just seemed to me like we were regular people, weren’t we?<\/p>\nKevin Carroll:<\/strong>\u00a0One of the first conversations I had with Katie and Hiro, we discussed trying to figure out what the tone was of this thing we were trying to do. The further we got into the\u00a0process,\u00a0I figured out that\u00a0all of\u00a0the answers were in the connection with the cast. If you trust the connection, the tone will reveal itself. We started there and went forward.<\/p>\nKingston Rumi Southwick:<\/strong>\u00a0It’s\u00a0really interesting\u00a0because I don’t think any of us knew on set most of the time, but the collective knowledge that we’re going to do this and do it to the best of our abilities is just good for creating that sense. Getting here, living in that \u2014 thank you, guys. Look at what we did.<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0Look at where we are, right? Crazy. One of the things that really resonates with folks \u2014 and it’s resonated for me \u2014 is that it has such a lived-in quality. It feels like Widow’s Bay is a real, palpable location, despite it being, at times, heightened and fantastical. But it does feel like a place you could visit. Can you talk a little about creating that kind of grounded reality?<\/p>\nHiro Murai:<\/strong>\u00a0I just go back to our initial conversation whenever we were talking about world-building. Katie would always say, “I know this sounds psychotic, but I would stay in that haunted inn, and I would want to get a coffee at that diner.” So yes, the horror is there, and it should be sort of awkward to be there, but I think there’s an inherent coziness \u2014 and you love this place. I think that’s part of the DNA, and what makes the show so watchable.<\/p>\nKatie Dippold<\/strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0I would like to be killed there.<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0That’s why you did the show \u2014 to create a place where you can die. We’ve all seen the show, but let’s get a little reminder. You brought a clip today. What are we going to see?<\/p>\nKatie Dippold<\/strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0You’re going to see a clip from the end of episode 102, directed by Hiro Murai.<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0Heard of him? He’s pretty good. Let’s take a look.\u00a0Widow’s Bay, everybody.<\/p>\nClip of killer clown chasing Tom in the basement.<\/p>\n
Josh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0Here’s your nightmare fuel for the day, everybody. Any children scarred forever by this?\u00a0Well\u00a0done.<\/p>\nKatie Dippold<\/strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0Originally the corpse was there with just a different shirt, and Matthew was like, “Oh, he should be wearing a shirt like I’m wearing.” And wardrobe \u2014 Brandon \u2014 quickly got the double for his shirt and put it on him.<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0That was all Matthew. Love it. Instantly iconic. Well, don’t tell Matthew I said this, but Stephen \u2014 is Wyck the hero of the show? I feel like he kind of is. How did this character strike you on the page, and what did you want to bring to him?<\/p>\nStephen Root:<\/strong>\u00a0I’ve played a lot of heavies in my life, and what’s wonderful about this character is I can bring some humanity into him. That’s where we started. You’ve got to really care about this character; you\u00a0have to\u00a0see how tirelessly he’s trying to protect the people on the island. I love being a little more myself in this role than in a lot of others I’ve done.\u00a0So\u00a0I think it’s about kindness. It really is.<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0Jeff, let’s talk about Dale. He tried to be supportive of Tom and Patricia throughout the entire season, but at the end, he did lose it \u2014 it’s fair to say \u2014 in the shelter. What do you think caused it to crack in the end? And would you have cracked if you were there?<\/p>\nJeff Hiller:<\/strong>\u00a0To be fair, that was a pretty screwed-up movie he had to watch. I probably wouldn’t have been quite as dramatic, but I would have freaked out too \u2014 talking about eating people and stuff.<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0Kevin, I guess Bashir is maybe the most sensible character on the show, we could argue \u2014 and he does shoot a woman in the back, so we\u00a0have to\u00a0hold that against him, right? But do we think he’s still fit to be sheriff, given everything that’s happened?<\/p>\nKevin Carroll:<\/strong>\u00a0The question of being fit is not the real question. The question is, does he want to be sheriff of this island?<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0But I think so. And listen, he’s fighting for his child. What parent in here wouldn’t go to the nth degree for the sake of their children, right? OK. Speaking of being shot in the back \u2014 hi, Kay. Good to see you. Did you know from the beginning how integral the mystery of Ruth was going to be to this whole story?<\/p>\nK Callan:<\/strong>\u00a0I knew nothing. I got to read the pilot. That was it. The first day I shot the pilot; the second day I shot episode seven, having not read five or six. I had no idea what Ruth’s journey was going to be. I had just put my life in Katie and Hiro’s\u00a0hands, and\u00a0thank goodness.<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0Kingston. OK, spoiler alert: we’ve all seen\u00a0Widow’s Bay, right? Some major revelations \u2014 obviously, Ruth’s grandson, we’ve learned. Talk to me a little about the relationship between Kingston and dear old Dad. You sympathize with Adam’s frustrations, but he could have gone a little easier on poor Mayor Tom. What do you think?<\/p>\nKingston Rumi Southwick:<\/strong>\u00a0I think the relationship is a\u00a0really big\u00a0part of getting the story going. Watching it back, if you look at all the scenes of me and Tom, it’s shot differently than most of the show. It really tells a story of this kind of bringing Tom back to reality \u2014 instead of him being so focused on trying to make the whole island picture-perfect, trying to make it this next Martha’s Vineyard. The relationship is so great because we keep a lot of secrets from each other, and I think that’s what keeps us honest. Certain things that I can do, he can’t say I can’t do, because he’s doing things he shouldn’t be doing either.\u00a0So\u00a0it’s a\u00a0really fun\u00a0relationship. And not just with Evan and Tom, but with me and Maddie. He’s just \u2014 it’s annoying because he’s too funny, and he’s so nice, and he’s just everything you want him to be.\u00a0So\u00a0it was easy to have that relationship with him.<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0We haven’t talked to the great Dale Dickey. Rosemary \u2014 yes, give it up. Rosemary is supportive to a fault. She keeps her cool, even managing to turn a family-lineage lecture into arguably one of the most entertaining scenes of the show. How do you pull off a scene like that?<\/p>\nDale Dickey:<\/strong>\u00a0Well, Rosemary’s answer would be a carton of cigarettes and a bottle of Fireball. Dale’s answer would be channeling my seventh-grade English teacher, Mrs.\u00a0Hansae, at audio-visual time. The lights would go down, and I could go to sleep. And the amazing, unending, massive support from my cast members and crew \u2014 they were there with me, holding my hands and my lines with me. Thank you, Jesus.<\/p>\nMatthew Rhys joins via Zoom.<\/p>\n
Josh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0Welcome to Hall H, Matthew. Let’s talk about Mayor Tom. How effective is he as a leader, in your estimation?<\/p>\nMatthew Rhys:<\/strong>\u00a0His effectiveness certainly would be down to the island as to judge. But his enthusiasm is without question, without doubt. He is enthusiastic to the nth degree, and he wants the very best not only for the island but for those who live upon it.\u00a0So\u00a0I would choose, from the previous answers, “possibly effective.”<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0That’s fair. You balance the balancing act of the show \u2014 slapstick and sincerity \u2014 so damn well. Can you talk a little about how you found that balance for Mayor Tom?<\/p>\nMatthew Rhys:<\/strong>\u00a0I didn’t find anything, Josh. That’s how I live my life. My life is a balance of slapstick and sincerity, so it makes sense.<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0Let’s talk, most importantly, about your mushroom-trip episode. How was it? Go back there \u2014 what happened?<\/p>\nMatthew Rhys:<\/strong>\u00a0I don’t do things like that.\u00a0But needless to say, about\u00a0three or four bottles of good Chablis will get you to that place, which is to be encouraged at times. It was a lot of fun. YouTube is the great provider these years, and there’s a lot of footage I shamelessly copied verbatim of people enjoying themselves \u2014 and that, to me, was the mushroom.<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0Matthew, we appreciate you Zooming in from your undisclosed location. Give it up for Matthew Rhys, everybody. There were so many fun details sprinkled throughout the series, and the nature of this show is that everybody’s obsessing over all the details. Is there something you’ve been excited to see the fans discover and obsess over, Katie?<\/p>\nKatie Dippold<\/strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0I’m so happy that the genealogy scene seemed to land with people, because that was one of the hardest things. Dale Dickey here memorized that entire thing \u2014 and I remember it was on the projector screen, and it was upside down on the screen, so she couldn’t even really use it. She had to go by memory. And I remember Matthew pulled me aside on set and said, “Do you hate Dale Dickey?”\u00a0So\u00a0I’m\u00a0really glad\u00a0that came together, because my God, what she had to do.<\/p>\nJosh Horowitz:<\/strong>\u00a0Dale, you killed it. We appreciate what you all made. This was such a special show. We’re going to let you go so you can get back to work and deliver us Season 2 as quickly as possible. Give it up for this amazing cast!<\/p>\nJeff Hiller:<\/strong>\u00a0Thank you, guys.<\/p>\nThe first season of Widow’s Bay is available to stream on Apple TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORIGINAL ARTICLE: JULY 24 AT 5 P.M. PT Start booking your stay at the Breakwater Inn: the writers’…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":960097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[4964,15661,171,339716,85224,173,67,132,68,300536],"class_list":["post-960096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-apple-tv","tag-comic-con","tag-entertainment","tag-katie-dippold","tag-matthew-rhys","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-widows-bay"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116985551435221415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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