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Jennifer Coolidge returns as realtor Karen Calhoun in The Watcher season 2

Jennifer Coolidge will reprise her role as real estate agent Karen Calhoun in season 2 of Netflix's The Watcher, which is heading into production in New York.

3 outlets · 2L · 1C · 0R First reported Account updated
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Mixed · 2Jennifer Coolidge is returning for season 2 of Netflix's The Watcher, reprising her role as real estate agent Karen Calhoun. Centre · 1Her character sold Nora Brannock (Naomi Watts) and Dean Brannock (Bobby Cannavale) the home that became their nightmare. Mixed · 2The news follows Netflix's announcement that the second season, from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, is going into production, with filming starting this fall in New York; Variety puts the gap since season 1 at four years, while Deadline says it is nearly four years after the renewal.

Mixed · 2Watts, Cannavale, Margo Martindale (who played nosy neighbour Mo) and Isabel Gravitt (who played the couple's daughter Ellie) are also returning. Mixed · 2Murphy and Brennan created the series, with Brennan as showrunner; Crystle Roberson Dorsey directs and executive produces alongside a list of others including Watts. It is based on the New York Magazine article "The Haunting of a Dream House" by Reeves Wiedeman. Mixed · 2The first season, loosely based on a true story of a family receiving mysterious letters from someone calling themselves The Watcher, ended with the Brannocks moving to a New York apartment before Dean and Nora were pulled back to the house.

Left · 1Variety reports the show drew 125 million hours viewed in its first week, 148 million in its second, and spent five weeks on Netflix's global English-language TV top 10. Mixed · 2Coolidge won the first of her two Emmys for HBO's The White Lotus shortly before the show premiered; her recent work includes A Minecraft Movie, with a sequel, A Minecraft Movie Squared, and the Rebel Wilson-directed Girl Group to come, according to Deadline.

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Variety treats it as a casting announcement, adding Coolidge's awards, credits and the show's viewership success.
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Coolidge's Emmy and Golden Globe wins, filmography and the first season's Netflix viewing figures.
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Does not give the production start or location, or describe the first season's ending.
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“impressive”
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“proved to be a hit when it premiered” — Variety

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Deadline frames it around the character and story, recalling the Brannocks' nightmare home and the first season's ending.
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Character details, the season 1 plot, production in New York this fall, and Coolidge's upcoming projects.
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Leaves out viewership figures and Coolidge's awards.
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“nightmare home”“living hell”
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“The series followed the Brannock family who moved into what was supposed to be their suburban dream home, and quickly became a living hell.” — Deadline

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