I love widows bay bc when they were like "theres only one living descendent of the town founder and in ending their life we can dissolve his bloodline and the pact that he made with the island," i immediately knew it had to be evan. like it has to be!!! this has to put tom in the most compromised position possible!! damn your child, your only child and last piece of your wife, to the miserable island forever so he can at least live or allow him to be killed as a sacrifice??? insane!!! impossible!!! but then they were like NO!!! IT'S RUTH!!! ON AN ISLAND WHOSE HISTORY IS FILLED WITH THE SUFFERING AND SACRIFICE OF WOMEN, IT'S RUTH!!! an elderly woman with a traumatic past who is taking care of herself and loves her community!! she makes her own tea blends and makes sure she can help a woman get up and down her porch every day! and we dont see much of her besides tom being annoyed with her!! and then the audience is challenged to confront how easy this decision could be for tom, how easy it is to choose to hurt a woman who you deem inconsequential, and would you, the viewer, choose to kill her too?? on this island where the history is compact with misogyny?? what does that make you? and then we grapple with tom trying and failing and feeling guilty but then- no. it is evan. you were right. and tom wont do it. he was going to take on the burden of ending one life to save the many, and now he will take on the burden of letting hundreds die so his son can smile at him tomorrow at sunrise.














