The Watcher (2022– )
6/10
The entire tone of the show just seems off
15 October 2022
Like a untuned piano. That sounds just off, but when played by a good pianist; you still enjoy the sound, but it will still feel like you're missing out on some very good music.

Or that waiter at a restaurant that is too jovial, at your table in a restaurant, in the sense that it feels insincere, and the other waiter who he shares your table service with, who is too stand offish, but he is polite and does everything right etiquette wise. If you look back at your experience at that restaurant, you would rate it as average. Because neither of your hosts got the tone right.

I don't know how to explain it any better. I watched the whole thing with that feeling. Like you cannot put your finger on what is wrong, or not good. It all felt just weird. Off tone. Kind of fun, annoying at the same time, just not as good as it could have been.

The acting is good enough.. with a few exceptions, on the positive and the negative side. But then premise could have been fun, the cinematography is up to par, but every episode has lines or actions in the script will just make you go: "wow that is just not.. realistic enough to be either believable or entertaining."

In the end I felt like I watched something completely irrelevant. But why did I keep watching? Maybe because it is that average, not bad enough to not watch it till the "end."

Maybe I was hoping all the good factors would lead to a gripping or surprising conclusion. Even that felt like; okido.. that was just; not satisfying or the opposite.. it was really just: nothing much.

And duh, with that cast, you want to root for it to be really good. Maybe that is what kept me watching.

It's not good, not that bad. Not that scary, not exactly boring. There are a lot of really good things you can watch instead. In hindsight I think I wasted a few hours on something that I could have rated either a 5 or a 6. Gave it a 6, but maybe that is to justify my watching it till the end.

My recommendation would be to just skip it.
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