Who Was ‘The Watcher’? Breaking Down Netflix’s Bizarre, Bad Ending

Games Who Was ‘The Watcher’? Breaking Down Netflix’s Bizarre, Bad Ending Paul Tassi Senior Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. Following New! Follow this author to stay notified about their latest stories.

Got it! Oct 18, 2022, 08:42am EDT | New! Click on the conversation bubble to join the conversation Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The Watcher Netflix The Watcher has supplanted Dahmer on Netflix, one Ryan Murphy show replacing another. But this new one? It’s a much, much worse series. Many people who have watched The Watcher by now have reached its ending and gone “wait, that’s it?” It’s easy to be confused and disappointed by the finale of the story which heavily, heavily fictionalizes what started out as a real tale about a harassment campaign against a family.

And that’s partially where the ending comes from. So let’s dive into the ending. Spoilers follow.

The ending of The Watcher mirrors the ending of the real life saga. As it says before the credits, The Watcher case remains unsolved. Both in the show and in real life, they were never able to pin down who was writing the threatening letters.

But the show gives us a lot more suspects than the real-life story, where the common theory eventually became that the family was writing letters to themselves (again, not proven). In the show, there are more options at hand. There’s a truly bizarre moment where Theodora, the dying PI, tries to tie up everything with a bow, saying she wrote the letters, she hired the John Graff guy and the girl to sneak into Dean’s bedroom and she’s pretty much been behind it all.

But this is quickly disproven as it’s easy to prove she never lived in the house, and her daughter says that she was just trying to give Dean some peace. But of course she failed almost instantly once her story is thrown out. But that leaves a ton of open, unsatisfying mysteries.

The Watcher Netflix The Girl in Pigtails – This is just…never explained. Who was that girl? She does not seem to match anyone else in the series, and it’s never explained how she got into his bedroom while appearing on zero other cameras. I think the heavy implication is that this may have been a “historical society” plan, because we know they were the ones using those tunnels, which seems like the most logical place for her to have entered.

Though who she actually was, we still don’t know. The only teenage girl in the entire series is Dean’s daughter, and it would make little sense for it to be her. MORE FOR YOU Hiring Refugees: How One Big Factory Did It American Airlines To Pay At Least $7.

5 Million In Lawsuit Over Baggage Fees Iranian Climber Elnaz Rekabi—Who Competed Without Headscarf—Explains Decision Amid Concerns For Her Safety The Tunnels – The tunnels are never fully explored here. It’s implied the John Graff guy is living down there, I think, but we don’t know where they all go, and if they also go to Big Mo’s house in addition to Pearl’s house. It felt very stupid to board up the tunnel without exploring where they went first, like how they have Dean go bang on Big Mo’s door to ask if they have a tunnel exit there.

Just go explore the tunnels yourself! John Graff – It’s never even proven that the John Graff case existed at all, and if it did, the police covered it up. We just get the detective being very mad about the implication, but why would he turn over all that information about a big murder that was never reported? That never made sense. As for the John Graff guy who speaks with Dean and is part of the historical society, the show does enough hinting that it seems to want you to think that yes, that really is John Graff, and he may have been hiding in town for 25 years or so since he killed his family.

John Graff? Netflix The Blood Cult – We never get any fixed answers one way or another if the tale about the neighbors being involved in a baby-sacrificing cult has any merit. It would seem that guy was just paranoid, but some of the details, like Big Mo showing up in house, presumably through a tunnel that we know does exist now, imply that there could be some truth to that. And the entire thing with Big Mo, her son and the two people who were executed as stand-ins for them never stops being bizarre.

But it’s all sort of brushed under the rug. The Watcher – I don’t know if the show wants the audience to have enough information to figure out who The Watcher actually is. For me, the likely suspects are Pearl and her brother, given their attachment to the house, the access to it through the tunnels, their association with John Graff and the brother lying about being mute.

It would make the most sense if they were The Watcher, scaring people away from the house in order to try to preserve it. For me, the most common real-life theory about the family writing letters to themselves doesn’t make sense, even if Dean admitted to writing some Watcher letters later. So there you have it, all the details of a bad, unsatisfying ending.

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