Widow’s Bay 8: Bye-bye

I wasn’t wearing my watch during Episode 8 of Widow’s Bay, “Your Baggage,” which is probably for the best. My heart rate was elevated for the entire first half of the episode, and it might have gone past giving me warnings and made the executive decision to call 911 on my behalf. I would be curious to see the resulting graph, though. It felt similar to episode 4, where I got so wound up with tension and dread that it seemed I couldn’t possibly handle anymore, and then it delivered the most absolutely perfect punchline. At the time, I said that nothing in horror hits me as hard as social anxiety. As it turns out, though, a good old-fashioned Boogeyman home invasion can work just as well. The thing that stood out to me throughout this episode was that it wasn’t putting a clever twist on a Halloween story, or deconstructing it, or parodying it. It was just doing it, and doing it exceptionally well. Building tension from before the episode even started, really, since the “previously on”…