The Watcher (2022): Season 1

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Netflix | Season Premiere Date: October 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 frightening letters about someone watching them in this thriller limited series created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan.

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Horror, Suspense

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E7. Haunting
Air Date: October 13, 2022
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S1:E6. The Gloaming
Air Date: October 13, 2022
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S1:E5. Occam's Razor
Air Date: October 13, 2022

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The Daily Beast Coleman Spilde

Oct 13, 2022

The Watcher is fun entertainment, excitingly embellished to stretch a terrific long read into a miniseries. Read full review

Judy Berman

Oct 17, 2022

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. Read full review

The Guardian Stuart Heritage

Oct 14, 2022

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. Read full review

Daniel D'Addario

Oct 13, 2022

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. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Oct 13, 2022

“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. Read full review

IndieWire Kristen Lopez

Oct 17, 2022

“The Watcher” may be Ryan Murphy’s best Netflix series, but the Murphy-isms wear thin. Read full review

Joel Keller

Oct 13, 2022

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. Read full review

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MrGlum

Oct 20, 2022

The show is quite good and wonderfully acted by the whole cast, but it goes on for two episodes too many just to end with a disappointing ending.
Don't regret watching it despite the frustration though.

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EthanRucker

Mar 25, 2023

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 mainThe 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.… Expand