Ryan Murphy has been dethroned. Tembi and Attica Locke’s limited series From Scratch has taken over from The Watcher as the most-viewed series on Netflix last week.
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is an unbelievably spooky story with a Ryan Murphy spin. But for all the twists and turns and haunted house vibes added by the co-creator of the limited series starring Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale, there’s a real-life family, home and community affected by a mysterious person who upended the lives connected to the Westfield property. With the series captivating audiences on Netflix, here’s a look at where the original family is now and how residents of the New Jersey town have responded to Murphy’s adaptation of the still-unsolved events that started nearly a decade ago.
On the series, Watts and Cannavale play Dean and Nora Brannock, a successful couple of a growing family who put all of their savings into securing the house of their dreams. They are based on Derek and Maria Broaddus, who bought a $1.3 million, six-bedroom Dutch Colonial house at 657 Boulevard in 2014. Not long after they closed on the house and slowly started renovations, they received the first of many and increasingly menacing letters from a stranger who identified themself as «The Watcher,» who explained in one note that «I have been put in charge of watching and waiting for its second coming.
My grandfather watched the house in the 1920s and my father watched in the 1960s. It is now my time.
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The Watcher, the new Netflix horror series from Ryan Murphy.The series, which stars Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale, gives a fictional account of a real-life couple who were terrorised by an anonymous stalker, shortly after moving into their dream home in New Jersey.While the series has proven to be a major hit in its opening weekend on Netflix, the real-life Broaddus family have made it clear that they won’t be watching.“We reached out to the Broaddus family. They declined to comment, but they do still live here in the Westfield area.
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Selome Hailu It’s a good week for Ryan Murphy. Now on the fourth year of his five-year Netflix deal, he’s had the streamer’s most-watched title of the week for four weeks in a row now. For the previous three weeks, it was “Monster,” the limited series starring Evan Peters as serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, which has now shifted to the No. 2 position. At the top of the chart for the Oct. 10-16 viewing window is “The Watcher,” Murphy’s limited series that racked up a chart-topping 125 million hours watched in its first four days of availability. The mystery thriller, co-created with Ian Brennan and adapted from a true story originally told in a 2018 New York magazine story, stars Naomi Watts and Bobby Canavale as a married couple being stalked.
The Watcher star Naomi Watts has opened up about the show’s ambiguous finale.The actor, who plays Nora in Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series, shared her thoughts on the unravelling of her character alongside her partner Dean, played by Bobby Cannavale.Discussing the final moments, which see Dean spying on a new family in his and Nora’s New Jersey mansion after being stalked, Watts called it a “really dark” examination of the couple.The scene sees Dean then call Nora to lie and say he went to a job interview, not knowing that she was also watching the house in a car right behind him.“They feel like the house is going to solve their problems, and it ends up being the catalyst that causes a whole lot of new problems that they didn’t anticipate,” Watts told Entertainment Weekly. “Now, they’re just trying to figure out who the other [really] is.”Speculating on Dean’s motivations and his obsession with the Watcher, Watts added: “The cycle continues, and we’ve gone too far believing in this American Dream with such entitlement and the fear of no longer being relevant anymore if that dream isn’t realised.
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Ryan Murphy drew inspiration for the limited series from a chilling true story, which is based on events linked to the ‘Watcher’ house in New Jersey. In a 2018 piece published by The Cut, Derek and Maria Broaddus moved into 657 Boulevard in 2014 before they received a string of chilling letters from an anonymous stalker claiming to be a protective ‘Watcher. ’The Broadduses were so reportedly so distressed by the letters, six months after they sealed the deal on the property, they put it back on the market.
The Watcher star Naomi Watts has revealed that the show’s ending was kept secret from the cast throughout filming.The new Netflix miniseries stars the actress and Bobby Cannavale as a couple who are harassed by a stalker known as ‘The Watcher’ after moving into their dream home in New Jersey, and is based on a real story.In speaking about her role’s challenges, Watts admitted to Digital Spy that the cast was unaware of where the plot would end.“Just not knowing, often. We were also trying to piece the story together in real time as we were making it.
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mammoth launch of “Dahmer,” “The Watcher” adaptation drains all the potential relatability and genuine terror out of the source material. With a subtler hand, and a much shorter runtime, a film could have explored the rich themes of the dark side of upward mobility and the erosion of civility among neighbors while serving up subtle but real scares, toying with the idea that the titular letter-writer could be any smiling neighbor at the grocery store.The neighbors in Murphy’s “The Watcher” wouldn’t be even remotely recognizable in the real world, so we get none of that all-too-believable dread.