We wanted the house and its contents to be “aspirational.” Hopefully we succeeded!” As with any adaptation, plenty was added to the TV show for the sake of an interesting story. Ryan was very involved in the selection process. All the furnishings were curated from the current trends in interior design magazines. “For example, the dumbwaiter didn’t exist in the real house. “Our alterations were script driven,” production designer Kristi Zea told AD. There was no dumbwaiter in the actual home There’s no record of what exactly this letter said because they threw it away “without much thought,” per The Cut’s article, but Andrea Woods remembers it mentioning a long period observing the home as well. The Woods family, who owned the home for 23 years before selling to the Broadduses, received a letter from the Watcher a few days before moving out. Photo: courtesy of Netflix The previous owners received their own letter The exterior of the Rye, New York, home featured in The Watcher. In the affluent suburb, Boulevard is known for its especially beautiful houses. ![]() The Cape Cod–style TV home is located in Rye, New York, but the show is still set in Westfield and uses the real address of the Broaddus family’s former home. Many of the minor details were changed for the TV show at the request of the real homeowners-Derek and Maria Broaddus became Dean and Nora Brannock (played by Bobby Cannavale and Naomi Watts, respectively), and the show wasn’t filmed at the real-life traditional-style Westfield, New Jersey, house where it all went down. And before you ask, no, the real family did not have a pet ferret. Below, we touch on seven facts about the real home and whether or not the TV show stayed faithful to reality. “The Watcher” reportedly did not film at the real house at at 657 Boulevard, using a house in Rye, New York instead.“The Watcher is a story about fear and greed set inside an ostentatious, overblown, faux 20th century mansion inhabited by a variety of lost souls both living and ‘dead.’ The house is certainly the main character and that’s what attracted me to the series,” Kristi Zea, the show’s production designer, tells AD. “I cannot imagine how long it will be before people lose interest so the neighborhood can go back to normal, nor can I imagine how much mail the poor current owners will receive from crackpots all over the world.” “We are all concerned for the family living there now and their neighbors,” resident Trish Dulinkski told NJ.com. The family eventually sold the house for less than they paid for it. New York Magazine documented their harrowing tale in 2018 in an article titled, “The Haunting of a Dream House.” It is based on the true story of the Broaddus family who soon after purchasing the six-bedroom home began receiving anonymous letters that became more and more threatening. “Ominous letters from someone calling themself ‘The Watcher’ are just the beginning as the neighborhood’s sinister secrets come spilling out,” the show’s description reads. The streaming giant describes “The Watcher” as “the Brannock family moves into what was supposed to be their suburban dream home, it quickly becomes a living hell.” “I just thought I would come because of how interesting the story was,” the publication quoted Pradeep Soni who drove 25 minutes from his home to get a look. ![]() Netflix’s limited series “The Watcher” has people flocking to the neighborhood to see the real home and some residents are not happy about it.Īccording to NJ.com, visitors are coming from far and wide to check out the house that inspired the series in Westfield, New Jersey.
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