Netflix's The Watcher: Fact vs Fiction

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Another month another Netflix true crime miniseries by prolific producer Ryan Murphy. The American Horror Story creator first took on the well traveled story of Jeffery Dahmer in the series Dahmer Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Now he’s moved his focus to the upscale suburbs of New Jersey with the true but not entirely story of a family that buys a house only to find out that it has a rather dedicated fan already who starts sending the family letters signed The Watcher. As the notes get more personal and more threatening the family struggles to maintain while trying to find out who is sending them these mysterious letters. Is it the privacy invading spectator neighbors Mitch and Maureen who are partially based on neighbors that did in fact sit in lawn chairs facing the house but bear little else with the characters in the show? Is it the almost entirely fictional Dakota whose only tie to a real life suspect is someone seen observing the house who allegedly used the name ‘The Watcher’ on a video game? Maybe it’s the entirely odd neighbors with the brother who loves dumbwaiters based on the Longstrom family next door? Still unsolved the story covers the chaos and attention brought to Westview, New Jersey, former home of Charles Addams, creator of the Addams Family comic strips. While the story is based on true events, the series swings wildly into fiction including a murder based on a real murder that happened in Westview in 1971 even thought it had nothing to do with 657 Boulevard. We separate fact and fiction from the miniseries. What’s your theory for who sent the letters? Let us know in the comments and be sure to like and subscribe for the latest.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0.26 - Changes Requested
1:19 - Never Moved In
2:18 - No History of Letters
2:47 - Other Letters
3:36 - Other Other Letter
3:53 - Lawn Chairs
4:19 - Blood Cult
5:08 - Suicide/Murder
5:42 - Pearl and Jasper Winslow
6:38 - John List
7:54 - Preservation Society
8:33 - Video Game Handle
9:47 - Lawsuit
10:28 - Investigation
11:10 - Adjusted Prices
11:34 - DNA
12:08 - Self Sent Letters
12:38 - Tunnel
13:16 - Desperate Measure
13:36 - Tips to Plot
14:02 - Literary Reference
14:23 - Lake
14:33 - The Cut
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Written by: Ryan Carbrey
Narrated by: Joey Criscitello / officialjoeyc
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[@ScreenRant]

What did you think of The Watcher?

[@nathanchaytor]

By the end of the first episode I said, dang this is fun and creepy. At the end of the last episode I said damn that was fun and creepy.

[@Expertato555]

I didn’t watch the video.

[@PhilKsDashcam]

After watching this show I thought "too bad this wasn't a movie. I would have liked to see how many Razzie Awards nominations it could have earned."

[@Expertato555]

I was faster than this pinned comment.

[@chaosreads]

I liked it but it did not help my paranoia

[@leepurdy9069]

My parent's neighborhood (the one I grew up in) and my neighborhood now do not allow front facing garages, among a long list of other deed restricted things. The next street over from my parents had a house (my 3rd grade teacher actually lived in it) that was forced to tear their garage and half their house down and rebuild, because their garage faced front. It shouldn't have been allowed originally, but it was and then the same dept., that originally signed off on it, filed to tear it down...38 years after the house was built and had been sold to new owners (the individuals my teacher sold it to).

[@ivandonom]

I would have redirected all my mail, then made a custom bear trap for the letterbox. then laughed my bollocks off!

[@mdelonas]

POV you live near the watcher house

[@raditya4387]

This story will remain unsolved...

[@elder-woodsilverstein7716]

I was just thinking about that episode.

[@easternlethal]

Am I the only person who found this series insanely funny? It's like the writers got together and said 'lets see who can come up with the biggest a-hole for a neighbour '

[@OfficialJoeyC]

Hey my video! Thanks for watching everyone!

[@salemslotandmore8278]

Thanks 😀

[@infinittus8530]

Dope

[@abitante5]

It’s just boulevard. I live two towns over and knew the original sellers

[@HBM3]

🎉

[@Expertato555]

Well, the bad thing about being first is someone making their own comment after you, and then that comment gets more likes. You have to come like at least 20 minutes in.

[@Dadbot]

Good thing clout gets us nothing in life

[@marcmaderarivera3450]

Ah,ok

[@Expertato555]

@@Dadbot well technically not nothing. Just a bunch of pity and hate, but the hate outweighs the pity.

[@rachelblanche2907]

😊❤

[@xtxerm4101]

Hey

[@onceuponatimeinamovie3577]

“The person who wrote the letter had no Y chromosomes” So basically a woman…

[@neilisalive4892]

Yes, that is what the detective says immediately after revealing that information in the show

[@skye8899]

You can't cant say woman on this channel your canceled oh crap now I am too

[@mr.culturefreedom2073]

Guess you can't say that nowadays...🤣

[@justinoleary911]

Ok so 1% of what happened in the show was true got it 😂

[@mr.culturefreedom2073]

Basically

[@_no-name_46]

Hey! I'm first this was 2-5 seconds ago!!!

[@margueritepetit1296]

Sorry every since I moved out of the apartment three months ago I closed my NETFLIX account

[@jred1817]

nobody cares