Watching the Halloween films made one thing clear to me: Michael Myers doesn’t really have a great strategy to killing people. I have never seen him kill anyone on a staircase. And no, the landing of a staircase doesn’t count. But now Widow’s Bay has their own “Boogeyman” and he’s…just as hilariously impractical.
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Episode 8 of the hit Apple TV series highlights Patricia (Kate O’Flynn). Patricia, from the start of the show, has told the story of the Boogeyman who haunted Widow’s Bay when she was in high school. He killed many of Patricia’s classmates and Patricia claimed that she was also almost one of his victims. So what happens when the horrors of Widow’s Bay bring the Boogeyman back to life?
“Your Baggage” allowed Patricia to finally face her demons (and tell the truth). Spoilers ahead for episode 8 of Widow’s Bay.
Patricia, Tom (Matthew Rhys), and Wyck (Stephen Root) all believe they have broken the curse of Widow’s Bay. They return to their lives and are excited for the future, including Tom taking Evan (Kingston Rumi Southwick) to a Red Sox game. But when Patricia is alone in her home and hears heavy breathing in her room, she runs away to find the Boogeyman is back.
And much like Michael Myers, the Boogeyman loves to just walk around and hope he can catch up with his victims. Michael Myers hasn’t met Patricia though. Even if Michael Myers would definitely fling himself out of a window like the Boogeyman does.
A perfect final girl
Patricia all season has maintained that she survived the Boogeyman and now, she gets to say it for real. She admits in a moment of panic that she lied as a teenager because she felt left out, even apologizes, and the mean girls who refuse to allow her in wouldn’t listen to her. Luckily, Patricia is a survivor.
And in a moment that would make Laurie proud, Patricia leads the Boogeyman to his demise once and for all. Yes, it was hilarious watching Patricia follow the Boogeyman to the morgue and to his cremation with a gun to his head but it still make her into one of the best Final Girls ever.
The show itself felt like it belongs as part of the Halloween franchise, especially with shots of the Boogeyman standing in shadowed doorways. But more than that, it highlights how Widow’s Bay is using horror tropes and iconography to its advantage. From Pennywise to Michael Myers, no one is safe from Katie Dippold’s pen and it is delicious.
I think, much like Michael Myers, that the Boogeyman needs his victims to not want to run or have a taser that needs charged or be willing to run them over after being shot. But neither have experienced the wrath of Patricia.
(featured image: Apple TV)
