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Over the course of its first three seasons, Servant has served up a dish of confounding supernatural mystery, and things are no less normal—or lucid—as it begins its fourth and final run on January 13.
All is far from well in the ritzy Philadelphia townhouse of TV news journalist Dorothy (Lauren Ambrose) and high-end chef Sean (Roby Kebbell), most of it courtesy of Leanne (Nell Tiger Free), the nanny who tends to the couple’s son Jericho. Or, at least, it’s some baby that seems to be Jericho, since the actual tyke died before the show began due to Dorothy’s negligence, and was then magically reborn (via a doll) by the caregiver.
Creator Tony Basgallop and executive producer M. Night Shyamalan’s Apple TV+ series is a tantalizing tease stretched out to almost mind-boggling length, such that answers to its core questions remain, to this day, outstanding. Who, exactly, is Leanne? What, precisely, are her powers? What’s the deal with the church that she fled, and which now wants to return her to the fold by any (crazy) means necessary? What does her creepy Uncle George (Boris McGiver) want, and what are his beliefs? And, ultimately, what’s the nature of Jericho, the resurrected child who has a habit of turning back into a doll (or vanishing) whenever Leanne sees fit?