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- Netflix
- Oct 13, 2022
- Netflix
- Oct 13, 2022
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
- Netflix
- Oct 13, 2022
- Netflix
- Oct 13, 2022
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
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Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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63% Mixed
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13% Negative
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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
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Based on 19 User Ratings
4.4
32% Positive
6 Ratings
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26% Mixed
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42% Negative
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8 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 User Ratings
4.4
32% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
26% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
42% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
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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SEASON 1
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.
Once again, another promising Ryan Murphy project, falling into the same old trap of starting strong and ending in shreds. Frankly speaking, I think Murphy should seriously consider caring less about how charming a set looks and pay more attention to the storyline, assuring that it does make an iota of sense.
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SEASON 1
Gets worse and worse by the hour. The first couple episodes are somewhat creepy, but it becomes increasingly less interested in the those genre elements and more interested in dragging out its dull whodunit plot riddled with absurd red herrings. There are elements of camp at times earlier on, but that’s perhaps too generous.
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