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Hola amigos, buenas vibras para todos.
**Hello friends, good vibes to all.
We return to the content of the spooky season after having paused to talk about Black Adam and I do it with a miniseries that is being much talked about lately because of how disturbing it can be and because it is based on a real case that still today has not been solved, a case which is a total mystery and that continues to torment the families that come to this famous house. That was one of the reasons why I decided to give it a chance, the second is because it is a work of Ryan Murphy, the famous director and producer of great horror and suspense series including Dhamer and American Horror Story.
I have realized that Netflix in this season of fear and Halloween have made the effort to release content with a little more quality than they are usually used to do and that is something to applaud, around here is quite criticized but things are also recognized. I can say that when you start watching this curious story at certain moments of the plot the word that can best describe what you will get to feel is bewilderment and it happens because discovering the source of all those facts seems to be impossible, not knowing what really happens but above all who is the person behind everything is the hook used so that the viewer can not stop watching it. So let's talk a little about this miniseries that comes to leave us all upset.
As I told you this is a story based on true events that follows the Broaddus family who bought the house in question in 2014. This family in the miniseries are the Brannock's, Nora and Dean (Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale) who arrive in a nice New Jersey town with the intention of buying a house and starting a new life away from the city. It is a very stately house, with many elements that can be called collector's items and to which the neighbors of the area have a "affection/attachment" a little particular and strange. I have always thought that when you buy a house or apartment you are not only buying the property but also the neighbors, it is an extra price to pay. And look at the Brannock's they paid that price.....
Before moving out completely, this family decides to remodel the house and that's when the nightmare begins. It all starts when they receive a very strange, creepy and even threatening letter from a person who calls himself "The Watcher", someone who claimed that he has been watching the house for decades and decades and that what he most wanted was for new people to live in it. Already at this point there was no turning back because over time more letters were arriving being more and more uncomfortable and disturbing to the point that the Brannock's came to feel a real fear, despair and terror. The plot unfolds with the family trying to find answers and the whereabouts of this mysterious person, a journey that for me was one of the most exhausting and desperate that can happen to anyone.
This is a miniseries which I would classify as pure horror, but not the kind we are used to seeing with ghosts and blood, I'm talking about the terror of living with uncertainty from the moment you wake up until you go to sleep, with the fear of not knowing if there is someone hiding in some corner of your house, of feeling watched and watched at all hours, in short, of not being safe in what is supposed to be the place where you should have more peace and tranquility. This type of terror is often more effective and more dangerous because you know that the threat is real and you see that as the chapters go by, you see how the situation becomes untenable because you are looking for a ghost who knows everything about your family.
The story is made so that you don't take your eyes off the screen, so that you watch one episode after another because that's how we think we'll get answers faster. At no time do you get bored or the tension drops, on the contrary, as it progresses, the murkier and stranger the situation gets. I repeat, it is not the terror of scaring you, of jump scare, so if you are expecting that in this miniseries you are not going to get it, it is a much more psychological suspense that gets into our heads and together with the Brannocks we put together the pieces of the puzzle to add clues and add or discard suspects because yes, the list of possible perpetrators is long and this is another of the attractions, if you can call it that, of this plot.
As I told you before, when you buy a house you also buy your neighbors and they come indirectly in the package. Well, the Brannock's neighbors are anything but normal people or at least that's how they are shown in the miniseries. They are nosy, strange people, who always seem to know more than they really say and above all they are people with secrets. That's not a bad thing, but when you watch the series you'll understand better. The premise that any of them can be behind everything is a constant for various events and things that happen in the day to day and is something that both the family and we the viewers will have to deal with.
The characters are everything in this story, they are the ones that give life to the dark plot because it is based on them that we draw conclusions. Dean's role is very good because little by little we see how he loses his sanity, it is an obsession for wanting to discover the final path that will lead him to do one or another questionable thing. On the other hand his wife Nora is like the catalyst of the situation, she is the calm mind that in desperation is the one who will try to bring the tranquility that her husband and family need. And to mention each of the neighbors would be too long but the truth is that each one, with their particularities, are characters that you get to repel a little, there is nothing trustworthy about them to the point that aversion is real. All of them are very well interpreted, when a character radiates these emotions is because you know it is well done.
In short, a miniseries that really surprised me because it was a case I did not know, but beyond that it is a well done product. It fulfills the objective of creating an uncomfortable atmosphere and full of psychological terror that manages to soak us all as the plot progresses. I give it an 8.5/10 because I feel it is worth watching, there are seven chapters of approximately 50 minutes where we will play the detective and even the victims themselves. I recommend it because it is a very curious and unique plot. I leave the trailer for you to take a look.
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Bueno amigos por hoy es todo, espero que les haya gustado. ¡Un abrazo a todos, nos vemos en la próxima!
***Well friends that's all for today, I hope you liked it. ¡A hug to everyone, see you next time!