Ryan Murphy's latest Netflix series 'The Watcher' is based on a viral New York magazine story about a bizarre crime, but there are larger themes at play.
Just like the story that inspired the series, “The Watcher” is about more than just the frightening letters. Let’s examine some of the larger themes lurking beneath the show’s surface.The elusive American Dream is at the center of “The Watcher” as the Brannocks — a decade removed from a bankruptcy filing — are accused of greed in the menacing letters.
since the article first published. The reporter cites a 19th-century short story by Irish author J. Sheridan Le Fanu — about a man who goes crazy after receiving threatening letters from someone who called himself the Watcher — as “the closest literary connection anyone could draw.”In the show, Dean becomes obsessed with finding the Watcher, so much so that his marriage is left hanging by a thread, and he appears absolutely unhinged as he accuses various neighbors of sending the letters.
former Westfield resident who murdered his family and covered up his crime so meticulously it was nearly two decades before he wasThe Brannocks eventually leave 657 Boulevard, but Dean is incapable of moving on. “I can’t let it go. I can’t just get over it. I feel like someone played a big … practical joke on us, and I’m never going to know why they did it,” he tells his therapist.
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