{"id":569146,"date":"2026-08-14T20:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/569146\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T20:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:32:08","slug":"the-widows-bay-cast-is-just-as-excited-for-season-2-as-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/569146\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Widow’s Bay’ Cast Is Just as Excited for Season 2 as You"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most delightful surprises of 2026 pop culture has got to be Widow\u2019s Bay<\/a>. Apple TV\u2019s horror comedy<\/a> about a cursed island and the quirky people who live there went crazy viral and racked up 19 Emmy nominations<\/a>. The streamer wisely renewed<\/a> the show for a season two, and Katie Dippold and her writing team are currently working on the story. We had some suggestions<\/a>, mostly related to the cliffhangers and lingering questions raised by season one, and unsurprisingly, the Widow\u2019s Bay cast has also been pondering what lies ahead for their characters.<\/p>\n

In a new Deadline<\/a> feature that\u2019s mostly focused on looking back at the show\u2019s stellar debut season, Matthew Rhys, who plays Mayor Tom Loftis, and others spoke about what they\u2019d like to see.<\/p>\n

Season one, Rhys said, ended in a way that\u2019s perfectly poised to keep moving the story forward. \u201cIt\u2019s the ultimate setup, I think, for a season two,\u201d he told Deadline. \u201cMassive cliffhanger. I\u2019m just talking personally now. A father who now knows the folklore is true. Therefore, if he suddenly leaves the island, his son will die. He realizes he has the Scooby-Doo mission. It\u2019s like, OK, how do we figure this out? What breaks the curse?\u201d<\/p>\n

Dale Dickey, who plays Rosemary, had a maybe not-so-serious idea for a scene with Rosemary and Dale, played by Jeff Hiller\u2014a duo that Dippold herself knows fans want to see more of<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was talking to Jeff Hiller,\u201d Dickey told Deadline. \u201cI would love to do a boat scene where Rosemary and Dale are out searching for the sea hag to get some answers. I thought that would be fun. And then we tip over and there\u2019s only one life jacket. Who\u2019s going to live?\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephen Root, who plays Wyck, is hoping for more journeys into the past. \u201cI hope we get more backstory from everybody, whether it\u2019s romance when I was younger or more about Dale Dickey\u2019s character or anybody. And I\u2019m hoping that, whether Katie does that in the flashback or in exposition, I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m really hoping that you get more backstory. Because the more backstory you get, the more you\u2019re engulfed in being interested in these characters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kate O\u2019Flynn, a breakout as Patricia, is also looking to the past\u2014but, like, in a historical sense. \u201cI would love to play a British ancestor of Patricia or something\u2026 I like the idea of wigging up and doing a bit of period drama. Why not?\u201d<\/p>\n

We co-sign on all of these ideas. What are your hopes (beyond the obvious, \u201ceight more must be sacrificed\u201d type of stuff) for Widow\u2019s Bay season two?<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most delightful surprises of 2026 pop culture has got to be Widow\u2019s Bay. Apple TV\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7074,156,111,139,69,437,213438],"class_list":["post-569146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-apple-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv","tag-widows-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}