• Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 13, 2022
User Score
4.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 19 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 19
  2. Negative: 8 out of 19
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  1. RTM
    Oct 23, 2022
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The premise is good, interesting and compelling. The performances admirable. But by the 7th episode, i wanted it over and wanted to know the final outcome. The writing, twists and turns, and characters overall are lacking to the point of not caring anymore. How there is going to be another season and not finish in just one, makes me want to just look up the case and not see the actual series. Especially since in later episodes, we basically know who’s behind it anyway. Expand
  2. Nov 13, 2022
    3
    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.
  3. Oct 25, 2022
    0
    Don´t waste your time like I did. I always hoped it´s getting better but it became worse.
  4. Jan 1, 2023
    1
    Just like every other show written or produced by Ryan Murphy, this show is a stupid, incomprehensible mess. Do yourself a favor and watch literally anything else than this retarded garbage.
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54

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 8
  2. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. Reviewed by: Judy Berman
    Oct 17, 2022
    70
    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.
  2. Reviewed by: Kristen Lopez
    Oct 17, 2022
    42
    “The Watcher” may be Ryan Murphy’s best Netflix series, but the Murphy-isms wear thin.
  3. Reviewed by: Angie Han
    Oct 14, 2022
    50
    If I rarely found myself intensely engaged, I never found myself bored, either.