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The Watcher (2022)

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.1
The Watcher poster

Overview

A family moves into their suburban dream home, only to discover they've inherited a nightmare.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

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Bias Dimensions


Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate

LGBTQ: Neutral
Christianity: Negative

Overview

A family moves into their suburban dream home, only to discover they've inherited a nightmare.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

Netflix logoNetflix
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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Center

Primary

The film explores themes of suburban paranoia, invasion of privacy, and the breakdown of community trust without explicitly promoting a specific political ideology. Its ambiguous ending and lack of a clear solution prevent it from aligning definitively with either progressive or conservative viewpoints.

The series features a visibly diverse supporting cast, including Black, Hispanic, and Asian characters, alongside its predominantly white main family and neighbors. The narrative subtly explores the darker aspects of traditional suburban ideals and portrays the white male protagonist with increasing vulnerability, without making explicit DEI themes central to its core mystery or critique.

Secondary

The series features a lesbian character, Theodora Birch, whose sexual orientation is a minor, non-central aspect of her identity. Her portrayal is factual and avoids stereotypes, neither uplifting nor denigrating LGBTQ+ themes, resulting in a neutral net impact.

The series portrays moralistic judgment, often with language rooted in Judeo-Christian concepts of sin and punishment, as a terrifying and invasive force. This is primarily conveyed through the antagonist's letters and the judgmental, hypocritical nature of the community, without any counterbalancing positive depiction.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The show is a fictionalized adaptation of a true crime story. The main protagonists, Dean and Nora Brannock, maintain the same genders as their real-life counterparts, Derek and Maria Broaddus. Other characters are either new creations or fictionalized versions without established canonical genders that were subsequently changed.

The show is based on a true story, and the main family's race aligns with the real-life individuals. While new characters are introduced, there is no instance of a character canonically or historically established as one race being portrayed as a different race.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

6.1

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
6.5
The Movie Database logo
7.1

Critic Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes logo
5.4
Metacritic logo
5.4

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