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I'm a huge fan of Ryan Murphy's productions but this was painfully pitiful. A collection of wonderful actors completely misused. Mia Farrow was the only bright spot in this ludicrous story. There were twists for the sake of twists, and inconsistencies for the sake of inconsistencies. Every character was a caricature and left me wondering why the actors chose to do this. However, if it were advertised as a parody then it wouldn't be so bad. Producers seem to be loosely basing their productions on true stories with hopes of connecting to an audience with the most basic primal need of curiosity. The Watcher was ridiculous and an embarrassment. True, I wasn't obligated to watch the entire series but I continued to hold out hope that the magnificent cast would save this show from itself. Didn't happen.

I must admit this series did frustrate me at times and also felt like a typical thriller with too many plot twists and turns.

However, what I did find unique embedded in this series is the subject of obsession with materialism and the lengths people will go to to secure and protect those obsessions.

I'm not sure if that was deliberate on the part of the producers to do a series that is part social commentary part thriller but it does work as a suspenseful series that kept this viewer locked in, despite sometimes being frustrated with the obviously dead end twists and turns.

Overall an addictive viewing experience.

A family move into their dream mansion in New Jersey, and everything seems idyllic, until they start receiving letters from an unknown person, known only as The Watcher.

Based very loosely on some real life events, it's an intriguing mystery series set over seven episodes, it delivers lots of suspense, and plenty of entertainment. Some wonderfully zany characters to enjoy, the neighbours are particularly strange, and essentially it plays out like a whodunnit.

Initially it feels like a horror series, similar style to Bly Manor, but it quickly changes into a more conventional thriller. It may not be for everyone, but I thorough enjoyed it, I liked the vibe, and for the most part, the originality of it.

The final episode will be quite divisive, people will really like it, or really loathe it, it's a little on the vague side.

I thought Booby Cannavale and Naomi Watts were excellent in their respective roles, I did absolutely love Noma Dumezweni, who played Theodora, I thought she was a fascinating character, very well performed.

8/10.

After watching the excellent series Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, another creation from the succesful duo Ian Brennan and Ryan Murphy, I was pretty excited to see what they would come up with now. Could it be another great show based on true events? That how it starts though, stating it's based on true events, but after reading about it after watching this show you can only conclude that 90% of it is all made up, and that's honestly a shame and a letdown. I binge watched it though, like I did with Dahmer, and it's only faire to say that it is very watchable. The mystery level is very high, the suspense is mildly high, the acting is very good and that from the whole cast, but the ending is diappointing and that's why this show scores so low compared to Dahmer. But you can watch this show if you like mysteries, and if you like good acting, because with actors like Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale, Mia Farrow, Margo Martindale, and Richard Kind, just to name a few, you get quality acting. The Watcher could have been a really good show, they missed an opportunity here, just because of a weak last episode. Since they were making up 90% of the story they should and could have imagined a better end to this short series of seven episodes.

I knew nothing about The Watcher and was looking to watch something while on the treadmill the other day. At first I was questioning some of the writing and thinking things were a bit hokey, but then I got hooked.

I watched the entire season in one day. I had to to know what was going on and what was going to happen next. I truly was enjoying what I was watching.

So the last episode came on and I was excited to see how the heck they were going to wrap this up and man did they really mess this up. The plot twists were getting to be too much and when it was all over I was like "Huh? What about this thing and that thing? Why did they bring these things up and not address them any further?

I am disappointed to have spent the day watching six interesting episodes only to have the seventh episode (the last one) be a complete turd.

I would save your time and watch something else.

The plot in this series is very good full of deception, conflicts, betrayal, sabotage. This series had my attention from 5 minutes into the first episode, it just kept on grabbing my attention every minute more. It's so full of plot twists that it leaves the viewer wanting more to watch more to answer all the questions that are left unanswered. It's only at episode 5 that some of those questions get answered with certainty one of them is a pretty significant reveal yet still leaves so many more to be answered. The choice of actors, the roles they each played and the exceptional acting produced an easily watched very intriguing series.

I feel like this show was written by someone who thinks they're a very clever writer. There are constant occurrences of misdirection throughout the show but the issue with this is that, if you just take a couple seconds to actually think about it, you see right though it. It's like the second any information is divulged to the main characters they just automatically run with it instead of taking a step back to use their brain..

...without giving anything away I'll just give a relatable example. Imagine a movie where the main character's parents were killed with a golf club by a man in a red hat. Then 40 years later the main character is golfing and sees someone else on the green in a red hat... so they go up to this person and start bearing them up mercilessly... but the person they're beating up is only like 19 or 20 years old... meaning there's no way in hell they could have been the murderer..

That's what happens in this show over and over and over again. It's like the writer thinks they're being clever by relating one thing to another to misdirect you but entirely lacks the ability to connect the pieces logically.

Nobody in this show has a single ounce of common sense and it gets frustrating so fast and so frequently. Idk imagine someone gets shot and everyone in the area looks in the direction where they thought the bullet was coming from and they just see a baby in a cradle sleeping.. well in reality we can deduce that it 100% was not this sleeping baby that shot someone.. but in this show, all they would think would be, "man shot. Gunshot come from that direction. Sleeping baby in that direction. Must be sleeping baby. Everyone attack sleeping baby"

Just, not a well-written show at all.

I don't understand why directors think that people want to watch a show where they can't see what's going on. I think the watcher is very interesting and we enjoyed watching it other than it was so frustrating because the scenes were so dark, it was difficult to see what was happening. Typically when shows are filmed like this, we only watch about 15 to 20 minutes and then quit because it's so frustrating with so much lack of lighting to see reasonably. I wish the lighting would've been better and we would've given this full score in rating because we enjoyed the story.

The story was intriguing and caught our attention quickly... Just wish we could've seen what was going on. Do directors ever watch what their end result!?

Like a untuned piano. That sounds just off, but when played by a good pianist; you still enjoy the sound, but it will still feel like you're missing out on some very good music.

Or that waiter at a restaurant that is too jovial, at your table in a restaurant, in the sense that it feels insincere, and the other waiter who he shares your table service with, who is too stand offish, but he is polite and does everything right etiquette wise. If you look back at your experience at that restaurant, you would rate it as average. Because neither of your hosts got the tone right.

I don't know how to explain it any better. I watched the whole thing with that feeling. Like you cannot put your finger on what is wrong, or not good. It all felt just weird. Off tone. Kind of fun, annoying at the same time, just not as good as it could have been.

The acting is good enough.. with a few exceptions, on the positive and the negative side. But then premise could have been fun, the cinematography is up to par, but every episode has lines or actions in the script will just make you go: "wow that is just not.. realistic enough to be either believable or entertaining."

In the end I felt like I watched something completely irrelevant. But why did I keep watching? Maybe because it is that average, not bad enough to not watch it till the "end."

Maybe I was hoping all the good factors would lead to a gripping or surprising conclusion. Even that felt like; okido.. that was just; not satisfying or the opposite.. it was really just: nothing much.

And duh, with that cast, you want to root for it to be really good. Maybe that is what kept me watching.

It's not good, not that bad. Not that scary, not exactly boring. There are a lot of really good things you can watch instead. In hindsight I think I wasted a few hours on something that I could have rated either a 5 or a 6. Gave it a 6, but maybe that is to justify my watching it till the end.

My recommendation would be to just skip it.

Also if you hate open endings just as much as I do might think about if this is worth the risk..

You know those shows that are just uncomfortable to watch because there is this looming thread or secret and you just want it to end or know the truth? That's how I felt with this and somehow I had a feeling the ending wouldn't be satisfying and sadly I was right.

I loved seeing Jennifer Coolidge but otherwise this could have been a good movie. As a show it's just too drawn out. I don't need 7 hours of uncomfortableness especially not for that kind of ending.

It wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen but definitely not satisfying.

I'll make it short: I've rarely had as much fun with a series as I had with this one. The acting, the musical accompaniment, the scenery and how the viewer is kept going until the last minute is unbelievably good.

The fact that the story is based on true events ties you even more to the series. You don't get horror in the classic sense, but constant psychological terror.

We watch a family slowly being broken apart by insanity and the drama is conveyed so believably by everyone in the cast. I especially loved Bobby Cannavale in his role.

"The Watcher" is definitely worth a recommendation and is something to be proud of.

In tone and content it will, not surprisingly seeing it's the same creators, remind you of "American horror story". Also along the lines of "The Amityville horror". Not only because it's based on a true story.

It's not bad but not excellent either.

There are some silly situations and things happening that could easily be explained or debunked (not spoiler material: girl, pigtails, camera - sigh, how come they didn't have footage of her actually leaving the bed eventually...)

Good acting all the way through.

But I somehow found myself wondering that this show WANTED TO BE. Chilling or a bit...comedic or both? The tone is shifting quite a lot and I wanted it to lean more towards chilling and scary. I wish it would've been darker.

When I first started watching, I was hooked. It was clear that this was going to be an interesting story and it caught and peaked my interest even more because I intentionally did not read up about the true story prior to watching.

It was good for the first few episodes but then it started to get sloppy. Every single person seemed like a potential suspect and certain pieces of information was just left unsolved. Too many plot holes. It began to feel like I was on a merry-go-round that was never going to lead anywhere. The show just became frantic with no clear direction, which ultimately spoiled it for me. I watched until the end to see if it became better, but it didn't. It was an ok watch but i wouldn't watch it again. A little disappointing.

I don't understand the negative reviews. Why? The show keeps you glued to your seat the entire series. It is an exciting series with great acting. What were people looking for? It keeps you guessing the entire thriller. Show starts out kind of on a Pacific Heights limb. Crazy insane neighbors. All it matters is the show is exciting. What is the issue here I have no idea. The show deserves at least ninety percent on rotten tomatoes. Show has a great mystery to it and it most certainly isn't predictable by any means. Grumpy people. Go watch it. Deserves a good rating at least versus excellent. Worth it.

The acting was very good. Particularly, mentionable: Bobby Cannavale, playing a very strong lead; Jennifer Coolidge, a fiercely determined woman, slightly askew; Noma Dumezweni, a highly controlled multi-dimensional dark woman; Margo Martindale, a convincingly scary lowly-bred, nosy woman who could turn friendly. Also deserving congratulatory mention: Henry Hunter Hall, Seth Gabel, Christopher McDonald. The story was overly long, however, and the poor writing at the end of the series brought it down. The house, as a focal point, failed to rally enough interest to sustain what could have been a compelling story. The house seemed to be a little too ordinary to capture the imagination. It was big, but not well explored. There were too many leads and side-issues, which turned out to be semi-dead ends. It seems like the writers added unnecessary sub-plots to keep the series going. There was a lack of cohesiveness. Overall the acting and interesting characters made the series interesting in spite of the inconsistent writing.

Seems like Ryan Murphy realized after the last, oh, 5 or 6 out of the 10 seasons of "American Horror Story" that people were hip to the title and knew not to bother watching, so he started releasing seasonal "miniseries" without the AHS brand but essentially the same thing: well acted, well-produced, contrived, trashily written garbage, with "twists" you can see coming a mile off and absurd contrived characters whose overwrought behavior stretches the bounds of credulity. I was actually about 5 episodes into this, scratching my head about how something with such a talented cast could be such an unredeemable pile of soap-opera garbage in terms of plot, when I finally noticed Murphy's name in the credits.

Please, Ryan Murphy, go back to calling the new seasons "American Horror Story" so we know from the outset not to bother hoping for better.