‘Widow’s Bay’s Kate O’Flynn Dedicates Emmy Win To “All The Patricias Out There”

Break out the cursed twig figurines and light up the bonfire because Widow’s Bay star Kate O’Flynn has clinched her first Emmy.

Winning for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Patricia, the awkward but very dutiful assistant to Matthew Rhys’ troubled mayor Tom Loftis, O’Flynn had this to say: “Thank you to Katie [Dippold] and Hiro [Murai] for trusting this Lancashire lass to play a sassy broad like Patricia and Apple for saying yes.”

Widow’s Bay, the word-of-mouth Apple series horror-comedy that took TV lovers by surprise, follows mayor Loftis as he tries to revive the economy of his struggling New England island town. In the midst of renovating it into a tourist destination, the island’s long-rumored curse begins to come true, and he and the quirky, skeptical locals find themselves confronting a series of increasingly bizarre supernatural horrors.

O’Flynn continuing her speech said, “I want to thank our mayor and all the residents of Widow’s Bay in front and behind the camera. You’re amazing, this is a role of a lifetime…[I also want to thank] the loves of my life, my darling husband and our darling daughter—another sassy broad in the making—but this is for all the Patrica’s out there. See you at sunset cocktails to celebrate.”

Widow’s Bay came into the Emmys ceremony with 19 total nominations, winning eight between Emmys Night 1 and Night 2 with O’Flynn’s win racking up a ninth win.

In August, series creator Katie Dippold told Deadline that the writer’s room for Season 2 was already under way. As for what O’Flynn would like to see happen next for character?

As for what O’Flynn would like to see happen next for her character? “I don’t know,” she told Deadline. Instead she threw her hat into the ring to also play the role of someone else too O’Flynn added: “But, I would love to play a British ancestor or Patricia or something… I like the idea of wigging up and doing a bit of a period drama. Why not?”