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Netflix's "The Watcher" tells the eerie story of the Brannock family who move into a sweeping mansion only to discover that the home and its surrounding properties are crawling with bone-chilling secrets. The show stars Bobby Cannavale as the father, Dean; Naomi Watts as the mother, Nora; Isabel Gravitt as the daughter, Ellie; and Luke David Blumm as the son, Carter. Amid constant break-ins and threatening messages in their mailbox, it isn't long before Dean and Nora begin to suspect everyone in town - including their neighbors Mitch (Richard Kind) and Mo (Margo Martindale) and their real-estate agent Karen Calhoun (Jennifer Coolidge) - of being in on a massive conspiracy to run them out of town.
At the heart of the show is a persistent sense of anticipation that seeps into the greater plot line about the mysterious letters from The Watcher and the show's subplots. As...
Netflix's "The Watcher" tells the eerie story of the Brannock family who move into a sweeping mansion only to discover that the home and its surrounding properties are crawling with bone-chilling secrets. The show stars Bobby Cannavale as the father, Dean; Naomi Watts as the mother, Nora; Isabel Gravitt as the daughter, Ellie; and Luke David Blumm as the son, Carter. Amid constant break-ins and threatening messages in their mailbox, it isn't long before Dean and Nora begin to suspect everyone in town - including their neighbors Mitch (Richard Kind) and Mo (Margo Martindale) and their real-estate agent Karen Calhoun (Jennifer Coolidge) - of being in on a massive conspiracy to run them out of town.
At the heart of the show is a persistent sense of anticipation that seeps into the greater plot line about the mysterious letters from The Watcher and the show's subplots. As...
- 10/21/2022
- by Chanel Vargas
- Popsugar.com
Warning: This story contains spoilers for the first two episodes of American Horror Story: NYC.
American Horror Story: NYC seems a culmination of everything Ryan Murphy has made in the past: It’s like if Pose met Dahmer met the Rubber Man, the mysterious murderous figure that we first met in AHS season one.
Over the first two episodes, which premiered Wednesday on FX and is now streaming on Hulu, we meet a cast of characters trying to survive New York in 1981, specifically a mysterious illness infecting both deer on...
American Horror Story: NYC seems a culmination of everything Ryan Murphy has made in the past: It’s like if Pose met Dahmer met the Rubber Man, the mysterious murderous figure that we first met in AHS season one.
Over the first two episodes, which premiered Wednesday on FX and is now streaming on Hulu, we meet a cast of characters trying to survive New York in 1981, specifically a mysterious illness infecting both deer on...
- 10/20/2022
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
Netflix's "The Watcher" is the kind of show that makes you want to talk to your TV screen. The endlessly twisty, perpetually borderline nonsensical series that's loosely based on a true story necessitates more than the occasional "What?!" response. It's a show that keeps viewers guessing right up until the moment it ends, and indeed, at some points seems designed more as a guessing game than an actual narrative.
The series is about the Brannock family: Bobby Cannavale's high-anxiety patriarch Dean, Naomi Watts as his artist wife Nora, and their two teen kids. But more aptly, it's about one family's experience with fear and paranoia in the form of anonymous threatening letters, and the way those feelings seem to spread like a virus to the people around them. Was "The Watcher" successful at everything it tried to do? Not quite. But was it entertaining to watch the show...
The series is about the Brannock family: Bobby Cannavale's high-anxiety patriarch Dean, Naomi Watts as his artist wife Nora, and their two teen kids. But more aptly, it's about one family's experience with fear and paranoia in the form of anonymous threatening letters, and the way those feelings seem to spread like a virus to the people around them. Was "The Watcher" successful at everything it tried to do? Not quite. But was it entertaining to watch the show...
- 10/18/2022
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
This article contains spoilers for The Watcher.
Ryan Murphy’s latest show takes on a real case – that of the Broaddus family who bought a house in Westfield, New Jersey in 2014 and subsequently began receiving highly strange and threatening letters signed off by someone calling themself The Watcher. Murphy’s show explores various possibilities as to who might have sent the letters, some based more in fact than others. So which is the most plausible? To consider that, let’s first look at the evidence.
Three letters were sent in 2014 (another came later), suggesting that The Watcher and their family had been in the neighborhood for decades and felt some level of ownership over the property.
An extract from the first letter reads:
“657 Boulevard has been the subject of my family for decades now and as it approaches its 110th birthday, I have been put in charge of watching and waiting for its second coming.
Ryan Murphy’s latest show takes on a real case – that of the Broaddus family who bought a house in Westfield, New Jersey in 2014 and subsequently began receiving highly strange and threatening letters signed off by someone calling themself The Watcher. Murphy’s show explores various possibilities as to who might have sent the letters, some based more in fact than others. So which is the most plausible? To consider that, let’s first look at the evidence.
Three letters were sent in 2014 (another came later), suggesting that The Watcher and their family had been in the neighborhood for decades and felt some level of ownership over the property.
An extract from the first letter reads:
“657 Boulevard has been the subject of my family for decades now and as it approaches its 110th birthday, I have been put in charge of watching and waiting for its second coming.
- 10/18/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
The Watcher, Ryan Murphy’s latest true crime drama offering for Netflix, makes no secret of the fact that it’s based on a true story. The saga of the house at 657 Boulevard Avenue in Westfield, New Jersey, and “The Watcher” that haunted its residents is well-covered territory. The spooky tale has been the subject of many features, including the definitive interpretation in The Cut.
What viewers might not know about The Watcher, however, is that it’s actually based on two real life stories melded into one TV show! In episode 3, The Watcher introduces us to John Graff (Joe Montello) , a mild-mannered accountant who once lived at 657 Boulevard Ave. John Graff would go on to, uh…kill his whole family (we didn’t say it was a happy true story). There isn’t a real life figure named John Graff or anyone resembling him in the original Watcher story...
What viewers might not know about The Watcher, however, is that it’s actually based on two real life stories melded into one TV show! In episode 3, The Watcher introduces us to John Graff (Joe Montello) , a mild-mannered accountant who once lived at 657 Boulevard Ave. John Graff would go on to, uh…kill his whole family (we didn’t say it was a happy true story). There isn’t a real life figure named John Graff or anyone resembling him in the original Watcher story...
- 10/17/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
The following post contains spoilers for The Watcher‘s finale. Proceed with caution!
Since they’ve resided at 657 Boulevard, little else has mattered to the Brannock family — and to viewers of The Watcher, for that matter — than uncovering the identity of the Westfield denizen writing them creepy and threatening letters. They’ve been circling answers, and even thought they solved the mystery a few times, but a concrete conclusion has thus far eluded them.
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Since they’ve resided at 657 Boulevard, little else has mattered to the Brannock family — and to viewers of The Watcher, for that matter — than uncovering the identity of the Westfield denizen writing them creepy and threatening letters. They’ve been circling answers, and even thought they solved the mystery a few times, but a concrete conclusion has thus far eluded them.
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- 10/15/2022
- by Rebecca Iannucci
- TVLine.com
This article contains No spoilers for The Watcher.
The Watcher has just about everything Netflix is looking for in a buzzy drama series.
For starters, it hails from TV-producing mastermind Ryan Murphy, who was just responsible for one of the streamer’s biggest hits in the Jeffrey Dahmer biographic drama Dahmer. The story of The Watcher also comes from terrifying real life events as recounted in The Cut’s now-classic magazine feature. And not for nothing, but The Watcher also just happens to share six letters in common with another popular Netflix series. It’s certainly fun to imagine someone clicking into The Watcher hoping to see Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia and instead getting an emotionally searing saga of modern true crime instead.
More important than any of those blockbuster factors, however, is the cast of The Watcher. As befitting a Murphy-Netflix co-production, the roster of actors here is absolutely stacked.
The Watcher has just about everything Netflix is looking for in a buzzy drama series.
For starters, it hails from TV-producing mastermind Ryan Murphy, who was just responsible for one of the streamer’s biggest hits in the Jeffrey Dahmer biographic drama Dahmer. The story of The Watcher also comes from terrifying real life events as recounted in The Cut’s now-classic magazine feature. And not for nothing, but The Watcher also just happens to share six letters in common with another popular Netflix series. It’s certainly fun to imagine someone clicking into The Watcher hoping to see Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia and instead getting an emotionally searing saga of modern true crime instead.
More important than any of those blockbuster factors, however, is the cast of The Watcher. As befitting a Murphy-Netflix co-production, the roster of actors here is absolutely stacked.
- 10/14/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
This article contains spoilers for The Watcher.
Hot off the success of his Jeffrey Dahmer series Dahmer, Ryan Murphy is back with another Netflix show inspired by a true story. This time, though, there’s a bit of a twist. The Watcher, inspired by the true story of the Broaddus family who bought a very expensive house in Westfield, New Jersey and received a series of threatening letters from someone calling themself “The Watcher”, takes a slightly different approach to true crime. It’s a weird story. And it’s never been solved, though there are many theories kicking around. The show’s approach is to allow various theories to play out, leaving you with a story that, at first glance, seems quite outlandish but with a bit of further digging is often peripherally true, could have been true, or was inspired by something that really happened.
Let’s break it all down.
Hot off the success of his Jeffrey Dahmer series Dahmer, Ryan Murphy is back with another Netflix show inspired by a true story. This time, though, there’s a bit of a twist. The Watcher, inspired by the true story of the Broaddus family who bought a very expensive house in Westfield, New Jersey and received a series of threatening letters from someone calling themself “The Watcher”, takes a slightly different approach to true crime. It’s a weird story. And it’s never been solved, though there are many theories kicking around. The show’s approach is to allow various theories to play out, leaving you with a story that, at first glance, seems quite outlandish but with a bit of further digging is often peripherally true, could have been true, or was inspired by something that really happened.
Let’s break it all down.
- 10/14/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
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