‘The Watchful Eye’: Freeform Series Teases Hitchcock-Inspired Mystery In New Trailer
deadline.comThere’s a complicated mystery afoot in Freeform‘s upcoming series The Watchful Eye. A trailer released Wednesday, which is embedded below, previews a Hitchcock-inspired story that begins when a woman dies after falling off the ledge of a building — only some believe she may have been pushed.
Enter Elena Santos (Mariel Molino), a young woman with a complicated past, maneuvering her way into working as a live-in nanny for the affluent family in Manhattan who may have had something to do with the young woman’s death.
At the behest of the woman’s mother, played by Kelly Bishop, Elena is trying to get to the bottom of the mystery, only to discover the mysterious building she now lives in has deadly secrets and ulterior motives.
What they don’t know, however, is that Elena has some shocking secrets of her own. “I think that the suspense, the eeriness, the cinematic aspect of the show [are reminiscent of Hitchcock].
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