Widow’s Bay discussion club

spoilers abound!So this was a lot. episode 6, “Our History”By episode 5’s end, it is obliquely suggested that, when our own hopes and fears are in charge of us, we might constantly be making pacts or covenants, however inadvertently, with something unseen—negotiating a treaty with not a benevolent god, but with a lesser, sicker, ravenous one1. And sure enough, episode 6 expands on the danger the town mayor might’ve found himself in. Extreme spoilers follow. On his way to being buried alive, the town’s founder, Richard Warren, offers a panicked, plot-dense confession to church parishioners. Not only the town's patriarch—a reluctant prison warden of a sort—Warren is keeping the island’s hunger at bay by selflessly feeding it with his own blood. To his addled mind, he is the necessary protector of the people. Sorry, he is “Lord Island Protector.” That’s an interesting combination of words, one that you could semantically parse a few ways.Anyway! This episode made me ill. This is an…