With Ryan Murphy’s limited series The Watcher, the creator of Glee delves into a real-life stalker case that has yet to be solved. The Netflix thriller centers on Nora and Dean Brannocks, played by Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale, who move with their children to a suburban home at 657 Boulevard, only to become the recipient of alarming, invasive and anonymous letters. to your new home.
The Watcher (Netflix Miniseries Summary:
Nora (Watts) and Dean (Cannavale) Brannock with their teenage daughter Ellie (Isabel Gravitt) and son Carter (Luke David Blumm) they move into 657 Boulevard, an absolutely beautiful house in Westfield, NJ Their goal is to have a prosperous and quiet life in the suburbs after finally leaving behind the hustle and bustle of their humble life in New York City. They have to empty all their savings to buy their dream house, but Dean is about to become a partner in his law firm, so they hope to be in good shape financially.
open house, Karen (Coolidge) turns out be an old friend of Nora’s and is delighted to see the Brannocks buy the house.Nora soon joins the local country club and begins dating her old friend.(adsbygoogle=window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}) ; (tix agb_7)
The true story of the Broad family dus
The story broke in November 2018 in New York Magazine. The Broaddus family purchased a home at 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey. It was an expensive purchase, worth more than $1.35 million. But the couple had decided to acquire an exceptional property in this part of the United States, and in particular in New Jersey, then the 30th safest city in the country. But when the family began renovations before moving in, one morning they received a letter addressed especially to them.
Although it began in a friendly tone, similar to a letter of welcome to the neighborhood, very quickly the mail took an unexpected turn. “How did you end up here?” “Did 657 Boulevard call you with its inner strength?” “657 Boulevard has been the focal point of my family for decades.” “Why are you here? I’ll find out.”
What can we conclude from the testimonies of the former owners of 657 Boulevard?
Dean met Andrew Pierce, a talent agent and one of the former owners of 657 Boulevard. Andrew moved to the suburbs to provide a better life for his family. His wife suffered from postpartum depression and he had to take care of a newborn baby. The change of scenery helped his wife recover, and she began to play the cello again. Life was finally taking shape for Andrew, but not for long. He began receiving letters from “The Watcher” and noticed strangers in his house. Andrew left his youngest son with Mitch and Mo, who were happy to help the couple. His wife is unstable again. She went home to fight most nights. One day her son told him that he had seen Mitch, Mo and their friends wearing red dresses. In the center of the gathering was an altar where a newborn baby was kept and had its throat cut. Dean had a hard time trusting a three-year-old’s story, but Andrew believed every word his son said. Later one day, his wife found Mo sucking the wound on her son’s finger in the basement. Apparently, Mo had entered the basement through a secret tunnel. It was the night that Andrew decided to go with his family. Later, his wife committed suicide because she never stopped seeing the strange characters she had seen at 657 Boulevard. Therefore, according to Andrew, there was a cult behind the letters. They wanted children’s blood to eat. It was a way to stay young. Andrew’s claim could not be ruled out entirely, as there were missing persons reports in Whitefield that Detective Chamberland had once mentioned. Later, Dean and Nora found the secret tunnel in the basement, further confirming that what Andrew said was not something he and his family imagined.
The obsession with blood sacrifice is also common in John Graff’s story. John Graff was another owner of 657 Boulevard. He was a devout Christian who lived with his mother, wife, son, and daughter. His wife was an alcoholic. His marriage was on the rocks. His daughter was a talented basketball player and an academic genius. Although John Graff was proud of his son, he did not feel the same way about his daughter. She was a teenager expressing her sexuality and it was not something her father approved of. He shamed his daughter, as well as Dean, for not being the perfect Christian woman he wanted her to be. When he began receiving letters from the Observer, he decided not to share them with his family. The Observer knew the secrets of the Graff family: how John had lost his job and his daughter was running away at night. The Watcher wanted John to sacrifice young blood to the House because that’s what the House wanted; that is what was needed. When he saw his daughter dancing with his teacher at a Halloween party, he got fed up.