Linda Holmes

I don't know that I responded to it all that differently, but...

I think had it stayed on the track that it was on at the beginning, I think as with many serialized shows, that was something that could only maintain for a certain period of time.

And I do think in particular, you know, there's a little bit of ambiguity at the beginning about whether there's really a curse.

And what I'm glad they didn't do is spend a lot of episodes being like, is there really a curse or is there not really a curse?

Yeah.

They pretty quickly establish, oh, there's a curse.

And even though Tom starts off, I think very earnestly saying, I don't believe in curses.

There's no such thing as curses.

You know, people just have bad luck.

And also he can't bear to think that there could be a curse because he's so committed to building tourism in the local community.

But I'm glad that they didn't sit very long in the Tom figures out there's a curse space because that, I think, would have gotten old quickly.

You're going to say.

Yep.

The surly teen.

Yep.

Yeah, I think that the show, and in fact, more and more as the show progresses, you learn that Tom's worry is centered on his son and on some of the strange things about the town, one of which is that there's sort of a superstition that people who are born on the island can't leave.

And his son was born on the island.

So

he worries if he accepts that there's a curse, then he's accepting my son can never leave.

And that really worries and concerns him.