THE WATCHER Netflix Ending Explained

I review, breakdown and explain The Watcher Netflix. I discuss the story, react to characters such as Dean, Nora, Pearl, John Graff, Jasper, Theodora, Mitch and Mo. I also react to the ending focused on the Westfield Preservation society and how accurate it is to true events.

00:00 Intro
01:06 Who Is The Watcher?
04:05 Why Did Theodora Lie To Dean About Being The Watcher?
05:45 Was Roger Aware Of John Graff?
06:38 Overall Review
08:08 Outro

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What did you think of The Watcher on Netflix? Comment your thoughts below!

[FanUtd]

All credit goes to the actors, scriptwriters because they keep you hanging on for 7hrs of absolutely nothing happening.

[thomasschraubt]

Why, WHY, did they never go down in the basement again to inspect the belongings and where the tunnels lead to? I found it infuriating that the characters just simply ignored those tunnels after they discovered them.

[stuartist]

It was bizarre how Mo's son stealing some random old people and murdering them in his parents house was barely a mention.

[paulsteinbeck]

For me it looked like the show started as a 10 episodes show and after the sixth episode someone told the producers that they have to finish it in 7. The first 6 episodes were good, tension was built and I was really keen to find out how it would all come to an end. But then….

1. Why did they just ignored the tunnels? Dean was so obsessed to find who the watcher is, so why didn’t he inspect the tunnels???
2. The deal with Karen was just stupid. Buying an enormous house for herself and then get scared out of the house after one night. They rushed through this way to quickly
3. I didn’t find it realistic nor believable that Theodora would just make this story up that she was the watcher. And again, they rushed through it. They find out 5 min later that it was a lie.
4. Who is this John guy?
5. Who was the girl in the dress?
6. The fact that Mo’s son just randomly shots two homeless people to get the life insurance is so unbelievable. And what funeral was held in their place? Did they really not do an autopsy?

I really didn’t like the ending.

[domckey]

I know Theodora just wanted to give them peace, but I liked her ending much more

[Rrocco]

What always grinds my gears is why they never placed a camera facing the mail box.

[edyn]

My two cents: The watcher is anyone who is "watching" the house in their own way. Some creep in tunnels, some send letters and others are just being weird neighbours. Each person/group has their winning, in either keeping the house in it's original state or like the surveillance kid - making tons of money for setting up security around the house.

It also feels like whoever gets exposed to this house somehow gets obsessed with it and becomes the "watcher", e.g., Dean and Nora at the end.

- The watcher

[reonix]

A theory of mine is Pearl is the watcher, and when she says "trees have roots that connect them as a social system" could be a metaphor towards the tunnels she's in

[nanoisdoodoo]

I personally think that dean beginning to send letters to the house shows why every person who had every lived in that house becomes “the watcher”. The house has such a strong appeal on people that they want it all for themselves which is why they end up sending letters to the house to scare the new buyers out. It’s a tale of selfishness and greed.

[davidgranato]

Roger was the watcher when John lived in the house and John was the watcher when dean and Nora were in the house and now dean is the watcher for the new family. Each separated 20 years apart just like they said in the movie 🤯

[tendyp]

At the end of the series, there was a scene where every charaters still watched the house. For me, i feel like they tried to send a message that the Watcher is a name for the people who had history with the house.

Even Dean and Nora came to watch the house at the end. Andrew still came to watch the house because he couldnt let go of his wife, Dakota had been watching the house and he put his ads in the mailbox as soon as the new owner moved in because he knew what was gonna happen.

The thing is the watcher might have nothing to do with those crazy neighbors. He might be just some random guy who have been sending letters to that house for decades. But everytime the owner got paranoid from the crazy neighbors, they eventually thought it was the watcher who did it.

[itsladyboss]

It was all over the place. I couldn’t tell what the tone was. Especially after the first episode, the horror elements disappeared for me. There was no payoff at the end. Good idea, terrible execution.

[esteban-]

It’s one thing to have a solid open ending with several plausible outcomes. It’s another to have this ending that we got form this show.

[non_brewed_condiment]

This was a really disappointing ending. I saw a lot of people on Twitter were mad because it didn't have a proper resolution. That wasn't my issue with it though, I think it's totally possible to have a great ambiguous ending. My issue was that at the end it kind of felt like they didn't know how to "land the plane" and the result was a huge change in tone. For the majority of the episodes there was so much pressure, it did an amazing job of making the audience feel the phobia of being watched and the confused panic that would come with that kind of situation. But towards the end it just felt like all that pressure just deflated and then it just went all over the place. The Karen revenge angle was just awful. It felt like the bad guy in an early 2000's action comedy getting "what they deserve" at the end of the movie, like the villain making a "oh noooo" face right before the building they're in explodes while the heroes escape. That was my least favorite part, very hard to take seriously. Then the rest just felt so scattered, it felt like it was trying to do too many things without really being successful with any of them.

[leel]

My understanding of the film is that "the watcher" may not be one person but all the old neighbors who live nearby. Even though they don't have the money to buy this perfect house right next to them, all of them still want to retain the original construction and decoration style (the neighbors have been expressing themselves in the show how much they want to maintain the original house style ), so they used the secret tunnels and all sorts of pranks scare each family who can afford the house away in order to achieve their dream…

[jwright]

Why was Roger not alarmed when he blatantly knew he was sat in the same room as someone who murdered their whole family? Why did Dean say his name was John at the end? Why did Nora turn up just after Dean leaves in the final scene? I feel like the producers of this series really fucked up towards the end. I was addicted to this the whole way through but was just left disappointed and confused by the last episode. 😕

[leahpotter]

On the last episode, there was clearly a past between John and Roger. I have a theory. In episode 3, Theodora tells Dean that Johns daughter had a Halloween party, where he caught her dancing with her school teacher. Roger was also a school teacher. Maybe Roger was her teacher too, and they also had an inappropriate affair… just a thought on why that interaction was so uncomfortable

[alexxx]

I loved Dean he had such a great performance.

[davidgranato]

It amazes me how the music theadora played to dean is never brought up. The story she told about John graff is 100% true.