Just in time for the horror season, The series He either*Bservador* (either The Watcher) Netflix has arrived to feed our nightmares. This strangest story that fiction tells what happened in 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey. Based on the 2018 The Cut report The Hauunting of a Dream House and created by the mind behind American Horror Story, Ryan Murphy, the miniseries tells the story of A family that gets the house of your dreams just to be bombarded with letters from an anonymous «vigilant» that seeks to protect the house. The letters are threatening and disturbing both in reality and on television and, understandably, cause chaos in the lives of the owners and their neighbors. «The 657 Boulevard has belonged to my family for decades and, as his 110th birthday approaches, they have put me in charge of monitoring it,» the guard wrote in the first letter in 2014.
«The observer It is a story about the fear and greed that happens in an ostentatious and exaggerated mansion of the twentieth century, inhabited by a series of lost souls, both lively and 'dead'. The house is undoubtedly the main character And that is what attracted me from the series, «explains Kristi Zea, a series production designer, AD. Next, we present seven data on the Royal House and if the television series remained faithful to reality. And before you ask: no, the family really did not have a ferret as a pet.
Boulevard's 657 is the real address
Many of the minor details for the television series were changed At the request of the true owners: Derek and Maria Broaddus became Dean and Nora Brannock (played by Bobby Cannavale and Naomi Watts, respectively), and the series did not roll in the royal house where everything happened. The television house is in Rye, New York, but the series is still set in Westfield and uses the real direction of the old Broaddus family house. In the accommodated suburb, Boulevard is known for its especially beautiful houses.
The previous owners received their own letter
The Woods family, owner of the house for 23 years before selling it to the Broaddus, received a letter from the guard a few days before moving. There is no record of what this letter said exactly because they threw it «without thinking much,» according to The Cut article, but Andrea Woods remembers that he mentioned A long period watching the house also.
The real house furniture
All furniture was selected from the current trends of interior design magazines. Ryan was very involved in the selection process. We wanted the house and its content to be «aspirational.» As in any adaptation, many things were added to the television series to create an interesting story.
The house is already busy
Four and a half years after having put it on sale for the first time, the Broaddus finally could sell the house to a young family in 2019. According to the property records and the new report of The Cut, that same family has been there Since then and has not received any inopportune letter.