The Watcher

White people are raaaaacist.

The whole premise hinges on a father's disapproval of his underage daughter's relationship with an adult black dude. Never mind a story - the drama is all there. The series paints itself as some kind of thriller, but as all woke flicks these days, racism, racism racism is all it reverts to. Skip it if you don't want boring spans of nothing happening ending in a White People Are Racist lecture.

The first couple of episodes had a lot of promise and started off great but then it started to go downhill and completely fell apart by the
final couple episodes. The acting is pretty good but the story and writing while good at the start collapse pretty quickly. It's also based on
a true story but very, very loosely, as in most of this never happened. This is one of those shows that just wants to be weird and throw as many mysteries at out as possible while answering very few of them. The answers at the end you do get don't hold up to any sort of logic. Everybody in this a horrible person and plain unlikable outside of the main family. So the premise is this family moves into a new house and gets threatening letters from someone called the watcher. Except there are only ever 2 letters and they aren't even that threatening. If these people would of just ignored the letters and dealt with their annoying neighbors like any real person would have this would of never happened. This couple is so easily swayed it's infuriating, one comment and they are instantly convinced the watcher is some new person without any thought or evidence even when it makes no logical sense at all. They don't do anything a normal rational person would do in this
situation. You have what appears to be a community effort including police corruption and they just do nothing. How do they not have an attorney or contact the state police, or the state A.G office. The writing gets lazier and more full of holes the further into it you go. While the show in itself isn't overly woke there is the token 19 year old black kid who lives out his moms house and runs a security company out of a van. Right, that's who your hire for security. The white 16 year old daughter is naturally immediately infatuated with him. The black female
private investigator seems like a DEI miscast. There's a few random comments throughout as like black kid makes a comment about how him walking into a police statin with a layer is different for him then a white person, and the daughter posts a public video calling her parents racist because they don't want her seeing a black guy,
not because he's 19 and she's 16. There's a few others as well. Actually now that I think about it the only 2 people that are portrayed as decent normal and smart are the 2 black characters. I made it all the way to the end as the first 3 or 4 episodes really do grab you and have an excellent setup just be prepared for a big letdown if you decide to watch it.