Netflix's The Watcher is headed back to the streamer for a Season 2, but what can fans expect for this second outing of the fan-favorite thriller?
Loosely based on a 2018 article by Reeves Wiedeman for New York magazine's website The Cut, The Watcher follows a married couple who are terrifyingly stalked by way of letters after moving into a new house.
Starring the likes of Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale, Season 1 of The Watcher earned a middling 56% Tomatometer average on Rotten Tomatoes, but it was still a smash hit on the Netflix service.
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Loosely based on a 2018 article by Reeves Wiedeman for New York magazine's website The Cut, The Watcher follows a married couple who are terrifyingly stalked by way of letters after moving into a new house.
Starring the likes of Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale, Season 1 of The Watcher earned a middling 56% Tomatometer average on Rotten Tomatoes, but it was still a smash hit on the Netflix service.
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- 11/11/2023
- by Klein Felt
- The Direct
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- 2/7/2023
- MUBI
After a series of misses at Netflix, Ryan Murphy’s fortunes at the streamer are up in a big way. The producer’s two most recent series for the streamer, “Monster” and “The Watcher,” have been picked up for future seasons, Netflix announced Monday.
Both shows are true crime series that Murphy created with his frequent collaborator Ian Brennan, premiered this fall, and touted as one-season miniseries. “Monster,” which bore the full title of “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” during its first season, will return for two additional seasons as an anthology series, focusing on other “monstrous” figures in history. “The Watcher,” which Murphy and Brennan co-created with Eric Newman, has been renewed for a Season 2, and will presumably follow the same cast of characters as the first season.
“Audiences can’t take their eyes off ‘Monster’ and ‘The Watcher,'” Netflix global TV head Bela Bajaria said in a statement.
Both shows are true crime series that Murphy created with his frequent collaborator Ian Brennan, premiered this fall, and touted as one-season miniseries. “Monster,” which bore the full title of “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” during its first season, will return for two additional seasons as an anthology series, focusing on other “monstrous” figures in history. “The Watcher,” which Murphy and Brennan co-created with Eric Newman, has been renewed for a Season 2, and will presumably follow the same cast of characters as the first season.
“Audiences can’t take their eyes off ‘Monster’ and ‘The Watcher,'” Netflix global TV head Bela Bajaria said in a statement.
- 11/7/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Tonight on Saturday Night Live, host Amy Schumer took part in a sketch parodying the popular mystery series The Watcher, which debuted on Netflix in October.
The sketch titled “The Looker” saw Schumer playing a suburban mom, with James Austin Johnson as her husband, and Marcello Hernández and Chloe Fineman taking on the roles of her children.
All is normal within the family home until Dad walks in with a “strange” letter he’s found slipped under the door.
“Dearest new neighbors at 322 Oakridge Boulevard, allow me to introduce myself,” the letter writer says in voiceover. “I’m The Looker, and I see everything you do.”
“Is this some kind of sick prank?” asks Schumer.
“I see you’re settling in nicely,” The Looker’s letter continues. “Your daughter likes to write in her diary about the boy who mows the lawn, and your son has been hard at work practicing his guitar.
The sketch titled “The Looker” saw Schumer playing a suburban mom, with James Austin Johnson as her husband, and Marcello Hernández and Chloe Fineman taking on the roles of her children.
All is normal within the family home until Dad walks in with a “strange” letter he’s found slipped under the door.
“Dearest new neighbors at 322 Oakridge Boulevard, allow me to introduce myself,” the letter writer says in voiceover. “I’m The Looker, and I see everything you do.”
“Is this some kind of sick prank?” asks Schumer.
“I see you’re settling in nicely,” The Looker’s letter continues. “Your daughter likes to write in her diary about the boy who mows the lawn, and your son has been hard at work practicing his guitar.
- 11/6/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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Ryan Murphy says he knew he wanted to adapt The Watcher for TV after reading the true story about the suburban nightmare in the 2018 article in New York Magazine’s The Cut.
“I instantly thought of my own family and I think that idea of how we’re living in a world now where everybody all over the world, I guess, seems under attack in some way and that idea of, ‘How do I keep my family safe?’ was something I was instantly motivated by,” says the co-creator of the psychodrama starring Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale. “I wrote it on the note card and I put it by my computer when we were writing the scripts.”
After he read the article, Murphy, who has an overall producing deal at Netflix, says he knew it was his next project and made a phone call,...
Ryan Murphy says he knew he wanted to adapt The Watcher for TV after reading the true story about the suburban nightmare in the 2018 article in New York Magazine’s The Cut.
“I instantly thought of my own family and I think that idea of how we’re living in a world now where everybody all over the world, I guess, seems under attack in some way and that idea of, ‘How do I keep my family safe?’ was something I was instantly motivated by,” says the co-creator of the psychodrama starring Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale. “I wrote it on the note card and I put it by my computer when we were writing the scripts.”
After he read the article, Murphy, who has an overall producing deal at Netflix, says he knew it was his next project and made a phone call,...
- 10/21/2022
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If you’re looking for something creepy to watch this Halloween month and don’t mind seeing a show inspired by real-life spooks, The Watcher just released its final episode on Netflix and is now available to view in its entirety.
This sinister thriller show co-created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan may seem like another outlandish American Horror Story-esque concept, but this story about a family being terrorized by a mysterious stalker after moving into a new home has some roots in reality.
The series is adapted from a story written by Reeves Wiedeman for The Cut, a magazine which is a part of New York Magazine. It centered around the Broaddus family, Derek and Maria, who had just found a nice home in Westfield, New Jersey and moved into it with their three children.
The first letter arrived in the house while they were doing renovations, and included some confusing and sinister language.
This sinister thriller show co-created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan may seem like another outlandish American Horror Story-esque concept, but this story about a family being terrorized by a mysterious stalker after moving into a new home has some roots in reality.
The series is adapted from a story written by Reeves Wiedeman for The Cut, a magazine which is a part of New York Magazine. It centered around the Broaddus family, Derek and Maria, who had just found a nice home in Westfield, New Jersey and moved into it with their three children.
The first letter arrived in the house while they were doing renovations, and included some confusing and sinister language.
- 10/21/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
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Netflix’s limited series The Watcher is introducing a global audience to a real-life stalking case out of New Jersey.
The TV show, created by prolific producers Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, dropped Oct. 13. The spooky psychological drama centers on a couple (Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale) whose dream home becomes a nightmare when they start receiving threatening anonymous letters. The starry ensemble also includes Mia Farrow, Terry Kinney, Richard Kind and Margo Martindale, playing their curious neighbors.
The series, in the opening title card, bills itself as being based on a true story. The real events were detailed in a 2018 article in New York Magazine’s The Cut, though most of the castmembers, when speaking to The Hollywood Reporter at the show’s premiere, said the show is heavily fictionalized. “I worked very closely with Ryan [Murphy] in coming up with this guy,...
Netflix’s limited series The Watcher is introducing a global audience to a real-life stalking case out of New Jersey.
The TV show, created by prolific producers Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, dropped Oct. 13. The spooky psychological drama centers on a couple (Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale) whose dream home becomes a nightmare when they start receiving threatening anonymous letters. The starry ensemble also includes Mia Farrow, Terry Kinney, Richard Kind and Margo Martindale, playing their curious neighbors.
The series, in the opening title card, bills itself as being based on a true story. The real events were detailed in a 2018 article in New York Magazine’s The Cut, though most of the castmembers, when speaking to The Hollywood Reporter at the show’s premiere, said the show is heavily fictionalized. “I worked very closely with Ryan [Murphy] in coming up with this guy,...
- 10/19/2022
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 2018 New York Magazine feature “The Watcher” had all the makings of a taut, twisty and timely psychological thriller that triggered our universal neuroses about the illusions of privacy and safety in our own homes. Journalist Reeves Wiedeman unfurled a years-long saga of the real-life Broaddus family who paid a bit too much to fulfill their American dream of escaping the city and moving into an idyllic New Jersey suburb, only to find themselves trapped in a nightmare: Almost immediately after settling in, they begin receiving sinister letters threatening them and their children. The situation spins out of control, sending the family into paranoia (both justified and not) that pits neighbor against neighbor.
It’s easy to see why six different studios were eager to snap up the screen rights to Wiedeman’s feature, but it feels as though Netflix was trying to burn off this premium piece of IP...
It’s easy to see why six different studios were eager to snap up the screen rights to Wiedeman’s feature, but it feels as though Netflix was trying to burn off this premium piece of IP...
- 10/14/2022
- by Stephan Lee
- The Wrap
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Sometime in 2014, a family who’d just moved into their dream home in the upscale suburb of Westfield, New Jersey, started getting ominous letters from someone identifying themselves as “The Watcher.” Four years later, those events were chronicled by Reeves Wiedeman in a New York article that immediately went viral.
Now, four years after that, Wiedeman’s story has been turned — inevitably, given the current gold-rush for adaptable true-crime material — into Netflix’s The Watcher, created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan for Netflix. But in the process, a singularly striking story has been transformed into just another ripped-from-the-headlines drama in an endless sea of content, neither bad enough to sink to the bottom nor good enough to float to the top.
As spooky true stories go, 657 Boulevard’s is a relatively simple one: Though the letters indicated a bone-chilling familiarity with and...
Sometime in 2014, a family who’d just moved into their dream home in the upscale suburb of Westfield, New Jersey, started getting ominous letters from someone identifying themselves as “The Watcher.” Four years later, those events were chronicled by Reeves Wiedeman in a New York article that immediately went viral.
Now, four years after that, Wiedeman’s story has been turned — inevitably, given the current gold-rush for adaptable true-crime material — into Netflix’s The Watcher, created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan for Netflix. But in the process, a singularly striking story has been transformed into just another ripped-from-the-headlines drama in an endless sea of content, neither bad enough to sink to the bottom nor good enough to float to the top.
As spooky true stories go, 657 Boulevard’s is a relatively simple one: Though the letters indicated a bone-chilling familiarity with and...
- 10/14/2022
- by Angie Han
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Plot: After the Brannock family moves into what was supposed to be their suburban dream home, it quickly becomes a living hell. Ominous letters from someone calling themself “The Watcher” are just the beginning as the neighborhood’s sinister secrets come spilling out. Inspired by the true story of the infamous “Watcher” house in New Jersey.
Review: Ryan Murphy’s Netflix megadeal has churned out some interesting projects over the years with a focus on adapting well-known true-crime and biographical stories. Most recently, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story became a massive hit for the streaming service despite the controversial approach to adapting the serial killer’s infamous story. Now, Murphy and longtime collaborator Ian Brennan are back with another adaptation of a true-crime story, this time one that is somewhat scarier than Monster but in a much different way. The Watcher, inspired by a New York Magazine article by Reeves Wiedeman,...
Review: Ryan Murphy’s Netflix megadeal has churned out some interesting projects over the years with a focus on adapting well-known true-crime and biographical stories. Most recently, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story became a massive hit for the streaming service despite the controversial approach to adapting the serial killer’s infamous story. Now, Murphy and longtime collaborator Ian Brennan are back with another adaptation of a true-crime story, this time one that is somewhat scarier than Monster but in a much different way. The Watcher, inspired by a New York Magazine article by Reeves Wiedeman,...
- 10/14/2022
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
As it’s gone on, Ryan Murphy’s Netflix deal has revealed how many topics fascinate him — and how rigidly fixed in the past are his manners of addressing them.
Has he been able to get beyond the franchises he started on FX? Consider, for instance, his recent smash “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”; the surfeit of punctuation in the title seems to suggest a sublimated desire to call it what it is, another installment of the true-life “American Crime Story” in all but name. “Halston’s” gilded retelling of recent-ish celebrity culture recalled “Feud,” with the adversaries, perhaps, being the designer and his own ego. And now, with his new series “The Watcher,” Murphy has reverse-engineered an “American Horror Story,” taking a true story and finding within or beyond its nuances some Murder House melodramatics.
Adapted from Reeves Wiedeman’s 2018 New York magazine story, “The Watcher” tells...
Has he been able to get beyond the franchises he started on FX? Consider, for instance, his recent smash “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”; the surfeit of punctuation in the title seems to suggest a sublimated desire to call it what it is, another installment of the true-life “American Crime Story” in all but name. “Halston’s” gilded retelling of recent-ish celebrity culture recalled “Feud,” with the adversaries, perhaps, being the designer and his own ego. And now, with his new series “The Watcher,” Murphy has reverse-engineered an “American Horror Story,” taking a true story and finding within or beyond its nuances some Murder House melodramatics.
Adapted from Reeves Wiedeman’s 2018 New York magazine story, “The Watcher” tells...
- 10/13/2022
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Hundreds — if not thousands — of new and returning TV shows and movies are released every month — your options of what to watch are endless. Variety, they say is the spice of life, however, we know your time is too precious to start skimming through myriads of synopsis looking for what’s interesting to watch. So we’ve selected some of the best, the scariest, the funniest, and the most interesting TV shows to watch in October. That way you get to stop scrolling, stop guessing, and start watching!
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10 New TV Shows to Watch in October 2022
From the many interesting TV shows — new and returning — lined up for October 2022, we have taken the pain to select the top 10 most interesting ones for you. From Netflix to HBO Max, Apple TV, Disney Plus, and Amazon Prime, here...
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10 New TV Shows to Watch in October 2022
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- 10/3/2022
- by Dee Gambit
- buddytv.com
A true story about a creep who stalks a family in their New Jersey home is now the subject of The Watcher, a Netflix limited series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan that premieres Oct. 13.
The limited series stars Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale as Maria and Derek Brannock, who move into what is supposed to be their suburban dream home. Ominous letters from someone calling themself “the watcher” start arriving as the neighborhood’s sinister secrets come spilling out. The series also stars Margo Martingale, Jennifer Coolidge, Terry Kinney and Mia Farrow.
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The series is inspired by the infamous story of a couple who bought a 1905 Dutch colonial revival in New Jersey for nearly 1.4 million. They were forced to abandon their new home over chilling letters from a mysterious stranger who claimed to have been “watching” the house for decades.
The limited series stars Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale as Maria and Derek Brannock, who move into what is supposed to be their suburban dream home. Ominous letters from someone calling themself “the watcher” start arriving as the neighborhood’s sinister secrets come spilling out. The series also stars Margo Martingale, Jennifer Coolidge, Terry Kinney and Mia Farrow.
Tudum 2022: Deadline’s Full Coverage Of Netflix Fan Event
The series is inspired by the infamous story of a couple who bought a 1905 Dutch colonial revival in New Jersey for nearly 1.4 million. They were forced to abandon their new home over chilling letters from a mysterious stranger who claimed to have been “watching” the house for decades.
- 9/24/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: We hear that The White Lotus star Jennifer Coolidge is starring opposite Bobby Cannavale and Naomi Watts in the Netflix limited series The Watcher from Ryan Murphy and his frequent collaborator Ian Brennan.
The Watcher, which has not been formally announced, is believed to follow a married couple played by Watts and Cannavale whose move into their dream home is being threatened by terrifying letters from a stalker, signed “The Watcher.”
The series is inspired by the infamous “Watcher” house in New Jersey. A couple bought the 1905 Dutch colonial revival in 2014 for nearly $1.4 million and were forced to abandon their residence over chilling letters from “The Watcher,” who claimed to have been “watching” the house for decades.
Netflix won “The Watcher” rights package in December 2018 after a fierce bidding war which included an article by Reeves Wiedeman published on New York‘s website The Cut. Executive producing with Murphy...
The Watcher, which has not been formally announced, is believed to follow a married couple played by Watts and Cannavale whose move into their dream home is being threatened by terrifying letters from a stalker, signed “The Watcher.”
The series is inspired by the infamous “Watcher” house in New Jersey. A couple bought the 1905 Dutch colonial revival in 2014 for nearly $1.4 million and were forced to abandon their residence over chilling letters from “The Watcher,” who claimed to have been “watching” the house for decades.
Netflix won “The Watcher” rights package in December 2018 after a fierce bidding war which included an article by Reeves Wiedeman published on New York‘s website The Cut. Executive producing with Murphy...
- 11/16/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale are set as the leads in The Watcher, a Netflix limited series from Ryan Murphy and his frequent collaborator Ian Brennan.
No one would comment, but I hear The Watcher follows a married couple whose move into their dream home is being threatened by terrifying letters from a stalker, signed “The Watcher.”
This marks a reunion for Watts and Cannavale, who star together in the upcoming movie Once Upon a Time in Staten Island.
Executive producing with Murphy and Brennan are Eric Newman (Narcos), Bryan Unkeless as well as Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (Catfish). Filming is set to begin in the fall.
The series, which evokes the first season of Murphy’s hit American Horror Story, is inspired by the infamous “Watcher” house in New Jersey. A couple bought the 1905 Dutch colonial revival in 2014 for nearly $1.4 million. They were forced to...
No one would comment, but I hear The Watcher follows a married couple whose move into their dream home is being threatened by terrifying letters from a stalker, signed “The Watcher.”
This marks a reunion for Watts and Cannavale, who star together in the upcoming movie Once Upon a Time in Staten Island.
Executive producing with Murphy and Brennan are Eric Newman (Narcos), Bryan Unkeless as well as Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (Catfish). Filming is set to begin in the fall.
The series, which evokes the first season of Murphy’s hit American Horror Story, is inspired by the infamous “Watcher” house in New Jersey. A couple bought the 1905 Dutch colonial revival in 2014 for nearly $1.4 million. They were forced to...
- 6/14/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Solstice Studios has optioned feature film rights to Reeves Wiedeman’s New York Magazine article “The Big Hack,” which depicts what experts describe as a plausible doomsday disaster scenario caused by a wide-scale cyberattack on New York City. The recent Colonial pipeline hack purportedly executed by a Russian ransomware group that is spiking gas prices on the East Coast makes the cautionary tale timely.
The article paints a scenario where hackers gain control of everything from the ignition and steering wheels of cars to hospital computers, subways and electricity, plunging the city into total chaos. All of these and other systems are subject to black hat hackers that simply sent Usb sticks to engineers that operate power facilities, promising explanation of benefits. When some of those engineers plugged in the Usb sticks at work, hackers had control. The article appears in the June 13 issue of the mag.
Mark Townend...
The article paints a scenario where hackers gain control of everything from the ignition and steering wheels of cars to hospital computers, subways and electricity, plunging the city into total chaos. All of these and other systems are subject to black hat hackers that simply sent Usb sticks to engineers that operate power facilities, promising explanation of benefits. When some of those engineers plugged in the Usb sticks at work, hackers had control. The article appears in the June 13 issue of the mag.
Mark Townend...
- 5/11/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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