The Ongoing Story of Widow’s Bay

I didn’t have a lot to say about Episode 9 of Widow’s Bay, titled “Emergency Shelter,” because it felt like a filler episode designed to set up the finale. It didn’t feel nearly as eventful as the rest of the season’s episodes, more like a showcase for a few funny scenes, slowing down the pace to build up to the big finish. Which made the key question: the big finish of what? Widow’s Bay the series, or just season one? We got the answer to that, at least, with the announcement that the series is getting a second season. Knowing that makes me appreciate the episode a little more. It would’ve felt anticlimactic as part of the end of the entire series, but it works pretty well as a build-up for the story going off in a new direction. Devoting half of the episode’s run time to Rosemary presenting 300 years of Warren family history via transparencies on an overhead projector seems simultaneously like something Widow’s Bay wouldn’t do, but also exactly like the kind of thing that only…