Kingston Rumi Southwick wants to come back for Widows Bay season two after the series turned into the sleeper hit of 2026. He said he is glad people are connecting to it, and that interest is now the story for viewers and the people behind the show.
The 18-year-old plays Evan in Widows Bay, the son of Matthew Rhys’ Tom, and he called the project “It’s so much fun,” during a recent Zoom interview with The Hollywood Reporter. The show premiered in April 2026 and has kept picking up momentum both critically and in viewing, which is why any hint about its future carries more weight than a standard cast comment.
Kingston Rumi Southwick and Evan
Southwick’s role matters because Evan sits inside the series’ central family conflict, opposite Tom, the town’s mayor. He said, “He’s a really smart kid,” and added, “There’s so many unspoken things, and I think that’s also partially because I haven’t had a mom,” which gives the character a specific emotional frame without turning Widows Bay into a generic haunted-town setup.
He also said, “I was watching it and thought that is exactly what I was thinking, if not better than what I imagined,” which points to a rare case where the finished TV series matched the actor’s expectations. For a show described as a sleeper hit, that kind of response helps explain why viewers have kept paying attention after the April 2026 launch.
Massachusetts and New England
The production filmed across Massachusetts, including smaller sea towns outside Boston, and Southwick said the location work fed directly into the show’s mood. “We would shoot in these smaller sea towns outside of Boston, in people’s houses. I would talk to the owners, and they would have their own Widows Bay-esque stories,” he said, turning the shoot itself into part of the series’ texture.
He added, “It really put you into the mindset of being in a sea town that’s haunted, so I’m glad that we shot in Massachusetts because I had never been, and the place is a very big part of the story.” That is the kind of detail that tends to separate a forgettable genre title from one with a distinct identity in New England.
Widows Bay season two
Southwick said, “What 'Widow’s Bay' did really well was it took those horror tropes and made [them] its own. It’s a very original idea,” and that originality is what gives the show room to keep building if the audience stays with it. The complication is simple: he hopes for season two, but no second season has been ordered yet.
For now, the business case rests on the same thing that made Widows Bay a sleeper hit in 2026: a strong April premiere, continued momentum, and cast support that keeps the conversation alive. If the audience growth holds, the show has already done the hardest part; the next move is whether Apple TV decides the numbers justify another round in that cursed New England town.
