Netflix thriller ‘The Watcher’ leaves viewers frustrated with “horrendous” ending

Ryan Murphy sat down with the female cast members of The Watcher to reflect on the true crime genre and discuss who may have been the true voyeur who inspired his Netflix limited series.

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.

Zack Sharf Listings for Jeffrey Dahmer costumes on eBay.com are being pulled this Halloween season. The popular e-commerce website has put a ban on Dahmer costumes because they violate its policy on violent and violent criminals, Buzzfeed News confirms. A surge of listings for Dahmer-related costumes hit the website in the aftermath of Ryan Murphy’s blockbuster Netflix series, “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” starring Evan Peters as the serial killer. As reported by Buzzfeed: “A spokesperson confirmed that the selling platform was actively removing these listings and that they were ‘prohibited,’ although some listings are still active at the time of publication…The company policy states that sellers are banned from listing items that ‘promote or glorify violence’ or are associated with violent individuals, the acts for which they gained notoriety, or crime scenes from the past 100 years.”

Ryan Murphy’s mega-bucks deal with Netflix is looking like a very smart investment.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Despite rumors to the contrary, Netflix says it has no plans to stop dropping all episodes of a TV show at once for binge-friendly viewing. “We think our bingeable release model helps drive substantial engagement, especially for newer titles,” Netflix said in its Q3 shareholder letter, as part of announcing quarterly results Tuesday. “This enables viewers to lose themselves in stories they love.” The company’s comments come after the Puck newsletter last month reported that Netflix execs were mulling a change to binge strategy and release major titles on a weekly schedule. Netflix, which pioneered the practice of binge-releasing TV seasons in their entirety, said it’s sticking with that game plan.

Netflix series starring Evan Peters about Dahmer, eBay saw a surge in costumes inspired by the serial killer uploaded for sale.However, according to TMZ the official eBay policy has said they forbid “items closely associated with or that benefit violent felons, their acts, or crime scenes within the past 100 years.”Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story has been subject to several controversies, including the mother of one of Dahmer’s victims condemning the recent series.The mother of Toney Hughes, Shirley Hughes, said that she hadn’t seen all of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, which focused one of its 10 episodes on her son.However, she concluded that the events depicted “didn’t happen like that,” before questioning how such a show came to be made.“I don’t see how they can do that,” Hughes said.

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.

In the wake of pushback by victims’ families to Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Kim Goldman is speaking out about TV producers who fail to alert survivors about their true crime TV shows.

Ryan Murphy continues to rack up the numbers on Netflix.

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.

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.

Netflix’s new horror series is extra sinister because shockingly, it’s actually based on real-life events. The Watcher, which American Horror Story’s Ryan Murphy produces follows a family who moves into a new home in the idyllic neighbourhood of Westfield, New Jersey - but soon, mega creepy letters start to arrive from a mysterious person “watching” their house. The Watcher then proceeds to inform the family he is waiting for the house’s “second coming” and is excited about the “young blood” of their children.

Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story has been knocked out of the top spot on Netflix's Top 10 List.First place is now taken by dark stalker movie The Watcher which stars Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale, according to Forbes.Both shows are from writer and producer Ryan Murphy.  Pushed out: Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story has been knocked out of the top spot on Netflix's Top 10 List by The Watcher  It was also pointed out that neither of the programs performed particularly well with critics, although audience viewership rates were strong with both shows.Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story was centered on the crimes of the prolific serial killer, which took place between 1978 and 1991.The criminal and cannibal, who was ultimately beaten to death in prison in 1994, was portrayed by Ryan Peters, who previously collaborated with Murphy on several seasons of American Horror Story. Other cast members included Niecy Nash, Richard Jenkins and Molly Ringwald.The limited series ran for a total of 10 episodes, which were all released on September 21.

Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story has been knocked out of the top spot on Netflix's Top 10 List.First place is now taken by dark stalker movie The Watcher which stars Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale, according to Forbes.Both shows are from writer and producer Ryan Murphy.  Pushed out: Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story has been knocked out of the top spot on Netflix's Top 10 List by The Watcher  It was also pointed out that neither of the programs performed particularly well with critics, although audience viewership rates were strong with both shows.Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story was centered on the crimes of the prolific serial killer, which took place between 1978 and 1991.The criminal and cannibal, who was ultimately beaten to death in prison in 1994, was portrayed by Ryan Peters, who previously collaborated with Murphy on several seasons of American Horror Story. Other cast members included Niecy Nash, Richard Jenkins and Molly Ringwald.The limited series ran for a total of 10 episodes, which were all released on September 21.

The Watcher season 1, episode 2 spoilers follow. The Watcher star Naomi Watts has shared how she approached the sex scene in the show's first episode. The haunting true crime series is based on the infamous case of the Watcher House in New Jersey, where the residents were plagued with threatening letters about their most intimate secrets.

After 21 consecutive days atop Netflix’s daily chart of most watched TV series, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story slipped to #2 on Friday, Oct. 14. It was overtaken by The Watcher. Both true-crime limited series come from Ryan Murphy under his big overall deal at Netflix.

The co-creator of Netflix's "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" disagreed that the show was "sympathetic" to the man labeled the "Milwaukee Cannibal." The Netflix limited thriller series depicts the life of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who was known for committing murder and other heinous acts, including necrophilia and cannibalism, between 1978 and 1991. "I think we show a human being," co-creator Ian Brennan explained to Page Six during the premiere of his new Netflix series "The Watcher." He’s monstrously human, and he’s monstrously monstrous and that’s what we wanted to sort of unpack. "We tried to show an objective portrait as possible," he noted.