One of the most delightful surprises of 2026 pop culture has got to be Widow’s Bay. Apple TV’s horror comedy about a cursed island and the quirky people who live there went crazy viral and racked up 19 Emmy nominations. The streamer wisely renewed the show for a season two, and Katie Dippold and her writing team are currently working on the story. We had some suggestions, mostly related to the cliffhangers and lingering questions raised by season one, and unsurprisingly, the Widow’s Bay cast has also been pondering what lies ahead for their characters.
In a new Deadline feature that’s mostly focused on looking back at the show’s stellar debut season, Matthew Rhys, who plays Mayor Tom Loftis, and others spoke about what they’d like to see.
Season one, Rhys said, ended in a way that’s perfectly poised to keep moving the story forward. “It’s the ultimate setup, I think, for a season two,” he told Deadline. “Massive cliffhanger. I’m 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’s like, OK, how do we figure this out? What breaks the curse?”
Dale Dickey, who plays Rosemary, had a maybe not-so-serious idea for a scene with Rosemary and Dale, played by Jeff Hiller—a duo that Dippold herself knows fans want to see more of.
“I was talking to Jeff Hiller,” Dickey told Deadline. “I 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’s only one life jacket. Who’s going to live?”
Stephen Root, who plays Wyck, is hoping for more journeys into the past. “I hope we get more backstory from everybody, whether it’s romance when I was younger or more about Dale Dickey’s character or anybody. And I’m hoping that, whether Katie does that in the flashback or in exposition, I don’t know, but I’m really hoping that you get more backstory. Because the more backstory you get, the more you’re engulfed in being interested in these characters.”
Kate O’Flynn, a breakout as Patricia, is also looking to the past—but, like, in a historical sense. “I would love to play a British ancestor of Patricia or something… I like the idea of wigging up and doing a bit of period drama. Why not?”
We co-sign on all of these ideas. What are your hopes (beyond the obvious, “eight more must be sacrificed” type of stuff) for Widow’s Bay season two?
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