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The real-life household down Netflix's The Watcher has nary tendency to beryllium voyeurs of their ain trauma.
The Broaddus family—whose lives were turned upside down by a bid of creepy letters they received aft moving into their Westfield, N.J. location successful 2014—have their communicative dramatized successful the caller Ryan Murphy bid starring Bobby Cannavale and Naomi Watts.
But portion it's a smash deed for the streamer, it's 1 the Broadduses won't beryllium binging.
"We reached retired to the Broaddus family," Good Morning America's Eva Pilgrim said during a conception connected ABC7 New York Oct. 18. "They declined to comment, but they bash inactive unrecorded present successful the Westfield area. And we've been told they person nary plans to ticker the show; the trailer was traumatizing enough."
In the series, Cannavale and Watts play Dean and Nora Brannock, fictionalized versions of real-life homeowners, whose saga was archetypal told successful a viral 2018 nonfiction successful The Cut.
The Watcher—which besides stars Jennifer Coolidge, Margo Martindale, Richard Kind and Mia Farrow—shows a heightened mentation of the months-long saga that plagued the Derek, Maria and their children, during which they received galore anonymous letters from idiosyncratic calling themselves The Watcher.
In the series—just similar successful existent life—the individuality of The Watcher was ne'er discovered.
While the Broaddus household has turned their attraction elsewhere, plentifulness of Netflix subscribers person been incapable to defy The Watcher's allure.
The streamer revealed that, since its premiere connected Oct. 13, implicit 125 cardinal hours of the constricted bid person been viewed, landing it connected the apical spot of Netflix's English TV list, replacing creator Murphy's different caller buzzy—and controversial—series, DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
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All 7 episodes of The Watcher are disposable to watercourse connected Netflix.
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