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- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Summary Based on a true story, Dean (Bobby Cannavale) and Nora Brannock (Naomi Watts) discover their dream house has a very unwelcoming neighborhood, including letters about someone watching them in this thriller series created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan.
Created By: Ian Brennan, Ryan Murphy
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
The Watcher (2022)
Season 1 Premiere: Oct 13, 2022
54
4.4
Summary Based on a true story, Dean (Bobby Cannavale) and Nora Brannock (Naomi Watts) discover their dream house has a very unwelcoming neighborhood, including letters about someone watching them in this thriller series created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan.
Created By: Ian Brennan, Ryan Murphy
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
54
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
63% Mixed
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5 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
54
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
63% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The Watcher is fun entertainment, excitingly embellished to stretch a terrific long read into a miniseries.
It’s the first really good drama series Murphy has made since leaving Fox for Netflix in 2018. And that’s thanks in large part to a serpentine plot that lays the groundwork for an exhilaratingly inconclusive finale.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 59 User Ratings
4.4
29% Positive
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
32% Mixed
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19 Ratings
39% Negative
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 59 User Ratings
4.4
29% Positive
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
32% Mixed
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
39% Negative
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
More than anything, it is this cast that holds The Watcher together. ... I have no doubt that it is going to be huge, because that’s why Murphy is paid the big bucks, but there’s so little to it. I’d be staggered if anyone can remember a single thing about it come Christmas.
“The Watcher” is made by people who don’t trust their audience. They might get you to watch, but they didn’t take the time to make something worth remembering.
The cast does acquit themselves well. Naomi Watts has been asked to do more interesting work in the genre in the films “The Ring” and “Funny Games,” but is strong here, though underwritten. ... By the time we reach a coda demonstrating the trauma and dislocation both Dean and Nora feel, it’s almost hard to know how to take it: Their world is one of so little gravity that it’s hard to understand, based on the oddity and randomness we’ve seen up until the show’s ending, why these characters in an unrelatable, ultimately unremarkable fiction didn’t just bounce back.
“The Watcher” may be Ryan Murphy’s best Netflix series, but the Murphy-isms wear thin.
In another producers hands, The Watcher could have been a taut, tense thriller. But with Murphy and Brennan at the helm, it becomes more campy than tense, and even a stellar cast can’t save the show from itself.
The Watcher provides the viewer with a spine chilling story with great performances and thrilling sequences that makes you want to keep watching to find out the mystery in the end. Unfortunately there's too many convenient coincidences and times when you're confused as to why the main characters aren't looking into a certain lead or not asking the obvious questions when they arise. If the writers ironed out some of those rough spots in the story I believe this would have been one of my favorite mini series that would have been on the same level with Harlan Coben's mystery thrillers.
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They completely transformed what was a true story on an infinite search for a misterious men that writes crappy letters which are barely scary. I mean just don't read them? assuming it's probably a joke after a while especially when there are no sign of real danger?
The beginning was kinda promising with all the weird neighbours, which cant help being annoying for apparently (and by the end truly) no reason.
You will finish it only to get to an upsetting ending.
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Production Company:
- Lightnin' Production Rentals
- Netflix Studios
- Ryan Murphy Productions
Initial Release Date: Oct 13, 2022
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards
• 1 Nomination
Critics Choice Super Awards
• 1 Nomination
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 1 Nomination