folk horror part 2

This was going to be an updated/added footnote or postscript to the last post, but now it’s its own post. It’s basically just a full transcript of a conversation. (I got explicit permission to call her by her name, since good ideas should be properly attributed, and I didn’t want to reword her) My friend Rowan, who is an actual TV reviewer and critic, finally caught up to me and, effectively, unplugged me, thank God. “The way you talk about the show is very interesting because it’s all about what it means, where it’s going, where it’s ending,” she messaged, “but this is television! Television is built to keep going. The premise must endlessly recycle. Granted,” she continued, “prestige TV these days is in a weird sort of hybrid place, but either way Widow’s Bay is a show built to last several seasons. Tom never can fix things unless it’s decided that it’s ending or until Matthew Rhys decides to leave.” “Right, in woo-woo parlance it’s a karmic cycle,” I said. That is, trying to break…