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The writing process for Season 2 of Apple TV’s newest hit series has just begun Widow’s Bay.
The show was co-created by Katie Dippold ColliderS Showrunners at the Showrunning panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, where she spoke candidly about the project’s amazing success. Starring Matthew Rhys as the mayor of a New England island that residents believe is haunted. Widow’s Bay It quickly became one of television’s most popular shows after its launch in April and went on to receive 19 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series.
“It took a long time,” Diebold said when she felt the show had attracted as many fans as possible. She joked that she was still “terrified” of Reddit, but she finally took a look enough at the social media platform to see that the amount of discussion about Widow’s Bay It was increasing dramatically. “Seeing that was really shocking.”
The writer is also known for her work on features such as the heat and tearShe explained that she did not know that the series had been renewed for a second season until just before the news came out. “But I was still hoping and always thinking about it,” she continued, noting that the writers’ room for Season 2 began earlier this week. “It’s a great room, and then we’ll be writing for the next 20 weeks.” Diebold indicated that her goal is to begin filming next year for the series, which also stars Kate O’Flynn, Kevin Carroll, Dale Dickey, Kingston Romy Southwick, and Stephen Root.
As for the lessons learned from the first season that the first-time showrunner intends to incorporate into the second season, “I learned very quickly in making it,” Diebold said. Diebold noted that she felt the comedy worked because the actors played things straight and dramatic: “Throughout the process, it was making sure that everything served that, and so that was top of mind going into Season 2. Also, the scripts were longer and very dense. I had to make last-minute time cuts, so I would be more conscious of that because we didn’t need that as much.”
“In the adjustment, I could see, ‘Oh, you didn’t actually need any of this stuff anyway.’ I learned a lot about what you don’t need and getting to things faster,” she added.
In her review of Widow’s Bay to Hollywood Reporter“At its best,” critic Angie Hahn wrote, “ Widow’s Bay It highlights the blurry line between comedy and horror.
