If Patricia From Widow’s Bay Won You Over, Try Kate O’Flynn in Everyone Else Burns

Widow’s Bay, the Apple TV+ series led by Matthew Rhys as Mayor Tom Loftis, quietly made room for one of its most memorable figures: Kate O’Flynn’s Patricia. The municipal worker finds unexpected purpose when Tom gets in over his head, and O’Flynn anchors one of the season’s best episodes when a sunset cocktail party goes spectacularly awry.

Although Widow’s Bay has wrapped its season, O’Flynn’s comic range is easy to track down elsewhere. She headlines the Channel 4 sitcom Everyone Else Burns as Fiona, the Lewis family matriarch whose deadpan delivery and steady timing define the show’s tone. Fiona lives with a husband, David (Simon Bird), who is certain the rapture is imminent and behaves like a well-meaning but ill-suited leader.

Fiona is devout yet more practical—she enjoys modern conveniences such as television—and the role allows her to grow into an awareness of the hypocrisy and misogyny within organized religion.

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