Chris Ryan

I want to talk to you about Widow's Bay.

Yes.

We can do this one of two ways.

We can do the episodes thing first and talk about what is based second, or we can just chat.

I know you've been discussing it with Rob, so I don't want to make you double it up too much.

Me too.

And I will spoil Andy's takes where he is like, this is probably the best thing I've seen this year, like by far.

Yeah.

I have also started to notice anecdotally more and more people being like, holy shit, Widows Bay.

Like, so it does feel like it's starting to get like a little bit of heat in the streets.

Have you noticed that?

Actually, Van is the devil on both of our shoulders.

You know, I was reading a recap of it on Vulture and I realized that I am not actually like... I'm so blown away by A, the comic performances and just the staging of the whole thing and how...

For me, even just watching on my screen at home, three-dimensional, the town feels already where I'm like, oh, yeah.

And I kind of know where this is.

And now they have to drive here.

And I've already settled so into the landline technology and like all these things about it that I have not really been like...

hardcore clocking the underlying lore of the town that I think is going to become increasingly important over the second half of the season.

And we get a little bit of this at the historical society in this most recent episode.

It speaks to the wonder of the show where it's like, it's there, it's going to matter, but it is in so many shows that would be foregrounded.