Widow’s Bay (season 1)

Season 1 of Widow's Bay follows Tom Loftis, the mayor of a small, isolated New England island town, as he tries to turn his struggling community into a tourist hotspot. The local economy is barely holding on and the residents are deeply divided between those who want progress and those who fear the island's dark past will be unleashed if they open their doors to outsiders. Tom's plan hits a wall when a skeptical New York Times reporter arrives to write about the town, forcing him to put on a polished, cheerful front while the island's strange history starts to stir. Many locals believe Widow's Bay is cursed, haunted by a long string of tragedies that no one has ever properly explained. As thick, ominous fog rolls in and unsettling events begin to unfold, Tom finds himself caught between his ambition and his growing suspicion that there might be something truly dangerous about the island. The townspeople's superstitions become harder to ignore when a missing man returns with his eyes turned white and attacks Tom before dying under mysterious circumstances.