If you’re looking for a good Netflix series, you may want to miss “The Watcher”. It’s a creepy thriller about a family that moves to New Jersey. That really should have been enough to scare you. I mean, New Jersey, right?

But.

This is one of those shows that makes things creepy by playing Ominous Music. Guy opens the refrigerator and the suspenseful music plays. No pickles? OMG! Jump scare! It tries, sometimes too hard.

Everybody is Westfield is creepy. Everyone is a suspect. I guess in New Jersey, this is normal.

The actors are good. I love Naomi Watts and that Italian guy who played a doctor on “Nurse Jackie”. The creepy neighbors are played by the commie spy lady from “The Americans” and Paul Reiser’s brother from “Mad About You”.

Mia Farrow plays herself as an unpleasant busybody. And there is that generic bad guy who plays Westfield’s chief of police. Our protagonists are left to guess who is sending very scary stalkerish notes to them seemingly trying to drive them out of town. One by one, they become suspects, then get accused by Naomi and Italian Guy, then get pissed off at being falsely accused. Eventually, we think we know who did it. But by then it’s too late. Italian Guy is possessed by the non-existent ghost of the house that makes everyone paranoid and we run out of episodes before our main characters can confront the actual bad guys. Or are they?