I feel for M. Night Shyamalan.

Having achieved global fame with The Sixth Sense (1999), Signs (2002), and The Village (2004), he then went off the boil, and quickly became the subject of mockery and derision.

He’s come back quite strongly, though, with some recent box office success, and his latest series is being heralded as “goddam creepy”.

Gizmodo went as far as to say they “were not adequately prepared” for just how creepy it is, detailing why below:

Early teasers for Servant focused on the premise that this was a show about a young family and their child…who happened to be a doll. There were teases about the trauma that lead to this fake baby being treated like a real baby, and that said baby would be, of course, part of some creepy shit—it’s M. Night Goddamn Shyamalan, for crying out loud—but the first full trailer for the series dives deep, and it’s so much more than we thought it would be.

Starring Lauren Ambrose, Toby Kebbell, Nell Tiger Free, and Rupert Grint, Servant follows Kebbell and Ambrose’s couple as they hire a new nanny (Free) for their child, Jericho. Said Nanny is weirdly cool with the whole “so you’re nanny-ing a fake baby” sitch—a sitch brought about by the traumatic death of the real Jericho just 13 weeks after his birth. So in order to prevent his wife from having a complete psychotic breakdown, Sean (Kebbell) and his friend (Grint) made an incredibly lifelike replica, which now has an incredibly gung-ho nanny.

I will stop there and let you watch it for yourself. Please ensure that your seatbelt is fastened and you’re “adequately prepared”:

Plot twist – the baby was dead the whole time! Oh, you knew that already.

The writer goes on to say that because it’s Shyamalan, anything is possible, although the likely conclusion is that “everything goes to hell”.

Servant will be available on Apple TV+ from Thursday, November 28, if you’re keen to have nightmares right through the weekend.

[source:gizmodo]