In case you haven’t watched the Widow’s Bay finale yet, beware! Mayor Tom (Matthew Rhys) discovers a game-changing detail about his teenage son, Evan (Kingston Rumi Southwick), that is going to make the show’s second season especially perilous for their family. You know, even beyond the island’s usual array of sea hags, murder clowns, masked killers, apocalyptic storms, and the like. In “We Hope You Enjoyed Your Time!” viewers learned that Evan is the youngest living descendant of Richard Warren, who founded the island’s first settlement. Ruth (K Callan), the elderly woman that Tom thought was the end of Warren’s bloodline, secretly had a daughter—Tom’s late wife, who died a few years after Evan was born. That means as long as Evan is alive, the island will remain cursed. Part of that curse is that if you were born on the island, you can never leave. Another part is that the island is prone to monster attacks. And yet another part is that the island demands human sacrifices whenever it wakes up hungry.
It goes without saying that Tom will do everything he can to keep Evan safe, which he was already obsessed with doing even before he knew about Evan’s ties to Richard Warren. He may need to step that up in season two if anyone else on the island finds out the truth. But you have to suspect the island itself won’t pose any danger to Evan; it needs him to stick around, after all.
