{"id":868,"date":"2026-05-28T08:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=868"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:07:06","slug":"inside-the-widows-bay-flashback-to-1702-how-betty-gilpin-and-hamish-linklater-reveal-the-towns-evil-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Inside the \u2018Widow\u2019s Bay\u2019 Flashback to 1702: How Betty Gilpin and Hamish Linklater Reveal the Town\u2019s Evil Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>SPOILER ALERT: <\/strong><em>This post contains spoilers from \u201cOur History\u201d and \u201cSeasickness,\u201d the sixth and seventh episodes of \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay,\u201d now streaming on Apple TV.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=866\">Young MC Follows Morris Day in Exiting D.C. \u2018Freedom 250\u2019 Festival Over Trump Connection, as C+C Music Factory Weighs Options: \u2018The Artists Were Never Told About Any Political Involvement\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nBetty Gilpin felt like she was haunting the cast of \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tApple TV\u2019s horror-comedy from creator Katie Dippold had already shot its first season when Gilpin arrived on set to film a surprise flashback episode, which aired as the sixth installment of its freshman run. The episode, released this week along with Episode 7, takes viewers back to 1702 when Widow\u2019s Bay\u2019s original sin was taking root.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGilpin plays Sarah Warren, a woman brought to the island as part of an arranged marriage to its founder Richard Warren (Hamish Linklater), only to learn he made a deal with the devil to spare his starving town. The episode is a vast departure from the already surreal series, stylistically presented on gritty film and helmed by famed horror director Ti West. The series\u2019 main cast had also already been sent home by this point, so it was a change of pace \u2014 and people and place \u2014 for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cIt really felt like we were ghosts in somebody else\u2019s house,\u201d Gilpin tells <em>Variety<\/em>. \u201cYou could tell every department, from hair and makeup, to the camera crew, to Katie were doing their opus-level work here, and they were really excited about the thing they had just made. It was a lot to ask a crew to make a 1702 indie at the end of a months-long shoot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGilpin isn\u2019t kidding about the haunting. Some of the episode\u2019s interiors were built alongside the regular Widow\u2019s Bay sets, so breaks for her \u2013\u2013 while costumed in 18th century clothing \u2013\u2013 were spent taking a breather on a city hall desk or lounging on a couch that would certainly be out of place in 1702. \u201cOur cast chairs and crafty table were set up on all their contemporary sets,\u201d she says. \u201cI watched some of the first episodes and was like, \u2018I napped on that couch\u2019 and \u2018I think I accidently left my protein bar wrapper on that desk.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTo ensure Gilpin and the rest of the cast didn\u2019t get too comfortable in present day Widow\u2019s Bay, a portion of the episode was shot on location at the Rebecca Nurse Homestead in Danvers, Massachusetts, the home of a woman accused of, executed for and later exonerated of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials of 1693.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI\u2019m dressed in garb of that time, wandering around this real woman\u2019s home and its grounds,\u201d she says. \u201cThere was a day when I peed in the woods, holding up all my skirts, and I was like, \u2018I bet Rebecca Nurse did this very thing in this very spot.\u2019 Then I wandered around the corner of the house on a lunch break one day, and I scared one of the grips. He was like, \u2018You can\u2019t just float around the corner dressed like that. You scared the shit out of me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tUnlike the on-edge crew member, the episode is bound to delight fans of the increasingly popular series simply because it deepens the already wild mythology of this island, revealing key details like what\u2019s down the well and just how long that creepy chair has been sitting in front of that creepier door. Sealed by consuming a mushroom that sprung from the snowy, barren land (as seen in last week\u2019s episode), Richard\u2019s devilish pact cursed Widow\u2019s Bay for the foreseeable future, binding all those born on it to its grounds \u2014\u00a0those who try to leave face immediate death beyond its watery borders.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe town\u2019s history has been warped through time, though. Creator Dippold says she wanted to interrogate the town\u2019s collective opinion of their founding father as a brave savior, exalting him to the point that Mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) feels inadequate in comparison. But Dippold says the episode, which was cooked up about halfway through the writers\u2019 room as a \u201cdry colonial horror period piece,\u201d almost didn\u2019t happen. In the series premiere of \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay,\u201d when Tom is giving Arthur (Bashir Salahuddin), a New York Times journalist, a tour of the historical society, the original script called for him to note that Richard Warren lost his face in the 1700s, among the town\u2019s many atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI remember at the last minute, before shooting the pilot, I knew then we were going to see this flashback episode, and I was like, \u2018This man is going to have to have a face for us to do this, and we need to change that joke,\u2019\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDippold says they also needed an outsider\u2019s POV into the Widow\u2019s Bay origin story. Sarah was perfect, because she is hopeful when she arrives in the opening scene. The tainting of that optimism is its own kind of American horror story.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThe soul of the show is that there are horrors big and small,\u201d Dippold says. \u201cSarah is going to this haunted island where there\u2019s a plague going on, and her husband turns out to be this monster. But there\u2019s also the emotional horror of how she\u2019s about to marry someone she\u2019s never met before, and she\u2019s desperate for it because she doesn\u2019t want to be a spinster, as they would have said back then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSarah comes with a smile and a joke. Neither is well-received, which Dippold says is its own brand of spine-chilling nightmare. \u201cThere\u2019s the tiny little social horrors, like when she gets there and she makes a joke that the guy doesn\u2019t hear,\u201d she says. \u201cHe makes her repeat it, and it falls flat. That, to me, is one of the bigger horrors of life. And you can imagine how easily this episode and a moment like that could fall apart with someone that wasn\u2019t Betty Gilpin. I think she\u2019s iconic. She just sells the horror in her eyes, and her acting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhile giving her best final girl energy, Gilpin also has to sell the comedic tone that weaves through the series, which she says was still being formed when they were filming. \u201cSometimes it felt like we were making \u2018The Crucible,\u2019 sometimes it felt like we were making a slasher film, and then sometimes it was like a total clown school,\u201d Gilpin says. \u201cSeeing the cut now, I think they really chose a nice blend of them. And honestly, it was so satisfying to finally watch it, because Katie, in particular, just really carved out a chunk of her soul to make this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=864\">\u2018The Four Seasons\u2019 Season 2 Is Sadder and More Subdued: TV Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe other piece in this story is the man who binds Episodes 6 and 7 together \u2013\u2013 despite them being separated by 300 years. Linklater\u2019s Richard Warren had to be menacing enough in 1702 to inspire his congregation to bury him alive in order to contain his evil, and to send Sarah fleeing the island in the night with his children, unaware that taking them off the island will turn them to dust. But when Tom, Wyck (Stephen Root) and Patricia (Kate O\u2019Flynn) dig up the undead man in the present day, he also has to be able to sell a bit of the comedy. One of Dippold\u2019s favorite moments in the entire first season is the exchange of messages using a notepad with Tom, which gets increasingly slapstick.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLinklater has previously played in this particular sandbox of spooky islands with Mike Flanagan\u2019s \u201cMidnight Mass,\u201d something he was happy to pull from for \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay.\u201d \u201cI have a background in secluded islands with perilous circumstances, so I was very happy to run back to my island getaway,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe is mostly hidden in shadows in the flashback episode, whittling away at Sarah\u2019s optimism for their future as a couple as he beats one guy to death and then thwarts her plan to poison him. It\u2019s only in Episode 7 that audiences really get a look at the ancient, dried-out Richard that Tom and Wyck offer to sail out past the island\u2019s reach to die. Shot prior to Episode 6, this Richard Warren\u2019s even more gravelly voice and wooden movements are all Linklater, no VFX.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThose wonderful costumes they built, no expense spared,\u201d he says. \u201cTerrifically gross teeth, terrific wig. We shot the prosthetic, reincarnated version first, so we got to establish the sound and the movement of the character after he was dead, and that was kind of fun. Then, when you\u2019re walking around in those Colonial high heels, with gorgeous flowing locks, it demands a certain Brad Pitt in \u2018Legends of the Fall\u2019 savoir faire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe comedy is in full force on the boat out to sea, where a ravenously hungry Richard houses multiples cans of vienna sausages. It\u2019s played for the laughs, but it was torture for Linklater. \u201cJesus Christ, that was disgusting,\u201d he says. \u201cThat was the greatest acting of my career, pretending like what I was eating was actually sumptuous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAt the end of Episode 7, when Richard recants his wish to die and instead tries to send Tom and Wyck to their watery graves, they have to seal him back into his coffin in a struggle. Filming that scene coincided with Linklater\u2019s 49th birthday, and the irony of being sealed in a coffin to turn to dust as he closes out his own fifth decade was not lost on him \u2013\u2013 but it did help him find Richard\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI was screaming, \u2018I want to live, I want to live,\u2019 so that\u2019ll drop your register, for sure,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is what the universe does to you. It holds a mirror up to how you feel inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDippold was so impressed by Linklater\u2019s nuanced turn as Richard, that\u00a0 even she was convinced there might be something human inside of him.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cHamish plays it so straight and so dry and so terrifying and so well that you can see the guilt and the burden and the weight of the world in his eyes,\u201d Dippold says. \u201cEven at the end of Episode 6, when Betty gives him the drink and starts trying to seduce him, I find it so heartbreaking. I think he\u2019s a little hopeful she won\u2019t think he is a monster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDippold, Gilpin and Linklater all took something different from this unorthodox detour back in time. Dippold remembers the rather odd ending to filming the series, because shooting the 1702 episode last meant she thanked the Season 1 crew for their hard work in a completely new location, with a cast of mostly new faces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very funny way to end this season when you give a speech in a colonial setting with all new actors, because you are out of the show\u2019s own time,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was good, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFor Gilpin, she\u2019ll remember getting to play out her \u201cCrucible\u201d fantasies. \u201cI love over-the-top acting in a bonnet,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m a sucker for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLinklater, meanwhile, found the positive in what could have been a dark acting exercise. \u201cJust being buried alive on the property of one of the accused Salem witches is a totally unexpected bucket-list moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=862\">\u2018Disclosure Day\u2019 First Reactions Call Steven Spielberg\u2019s Sci-Fi Epic \u2018His Best Film in 20 Years\u2019 and Praise Emily Blunt\u2019s \u2018All-Time\u2019 Performance<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Widow&#8217;s Bay&#8217; creator Katie Dippold and guest stars Betty Gilpin and Hamish Linklater on Episodes 6 and 7, and the flashback to 1702.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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