To revive your memories, we have written a detailed Servant Season 1 Recap for the show’s fans. This Apple TV+ series is a psychological horror created by Tony Basgallop and produced alongside the legendary director and writer M Night Shyamalan. The season includes 10 episodes ranging from 25-36 minutes for each episode. It stars Lauren Ambrose, Nell Tiger Free, Toby Kebbell, Rupert Grint, Tony Revolori and Jerrika Hinton, among other cast members.
Apple TV’s synopsis of the show reads:
FROM M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN, SERVANT FOLLOWS A PHILADELPHIA COUPLE IN MOURNING AFTER AN UNSPEAKABLE TRAGEDY CREATES A RIFT IN THEIR MARRIAGE AND OPENS THE DOOR FOR A MYSTERIOUS FORCE TO ENTER THEIR HOME.
-Servant Season 1 Recap/Review Contains Spoilers-
It is already difficult to function after the loss of a child, but for Dorothy Turner, it was absolutely devastating. Catatonia and fugue states were a general occurrence in her life. Until her friend, Natalie, introduces a ‘reborn doll,’ convincing Dorothy that her son Jericho is still alive. This is where Leanne Grayson from Wisconsin comes in. Hoping for some help, Dorothy hires a nanny to take care of ‘Jericho’ and Leanne steps in to do just that.
Sean Turner does not want to hire help for a fake baby, but they need to keep up the ruse for Dorothy’s benefit. He explains just how they need to take care of Dorothy and make no missteps in this elaborate drama. What Sean doesn’t expect, however, is Leanne taking the job too seriously. She treats the doll like an actual baby. Truly concerned, Sean calls his brother-in-law, Julian. He is a lawyer who cares about nothing else but keeping his family safe. Julian decides to look into Leanne and figure out where she comes from.
The air is rife with tension, like there is a taut wire waiting to snap anytime soon. This feeling keeps the characters on edge almost the whole time, especially with Leanne’s behaviour as a nanny, constantly being involved in the family’s affairs. One day, Leanne takes the doll out for a walk, and when she returns home, Sean finds a real-life actual baby in the crib, crying its little lungs. Dorothy doesn’t bat an eye looking at him.
Julian and Sean are relieved, but there is another question on their mind. Whose baby is it? Did Leanne bring this baby with her, or was it stolen? As the investigation continues, we find out that Leanne Grayson from Wisconsin did die, and the nanny probably stole her identity to come here. There are no babies missing in the area, and the family is clear of legal trouble. Dorothy is a television journalist, and Sean is an acclaimed chef, both of whom cannot come into bad publicity for the fear of their livelihood.
However, Sean has been getting mysterious splinters and has lost the ability to taste food. Things in the family are getting tenser; Leanne is pretending to be one kind of person in front of the Turners while taking on a whole new identity in front of other people. She has been hellbent on finding out what happened to the real Jericho and will not stop until she has the answers. Finally, Julian relents after a traumatic incident and spills their beans.
We find out that Dorothy left the actual Jericho in the car during a heat wave peaking at 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Leanne spares no empathy for Dorothy anymore and punishes her in the pettiest and most humiliating way possible. Keeping her car alarms on, sowing seeds of anxiety about her body and making food that would give her food poisoning were all actual things she did to her. In the end, we see Leanne leaving with Jericho v2.0 to her cult, from which she left to come here.
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Thoughts on Servant Season 1
Servant is a brilliantly shot, anxiety-inducing show that uses music and visual elements beautifully to make the shots work within the genre. Additionally, the parallel between Sean’s ruthless detachment from killing and cooking live animals and the absence of any remorse for the original Jericho is striking. It is extremely telling how there is no value for the life lost because it was so easily replaceable in the first place.
For a show based on the loss of a child, it so easily weaves in the insulting idea that bringing a child back or replacing them with someone else will make everything right. It is a great lens into how class and power make that kind of approach acceptable in society because there is enough access to resources to do that. Additionally, it sets up great questions for the next season, like, where is Leanne going? Whose baby is it, actually? Why was Sean getting splinters? How is Dorothy going to react?
What are you most excited to see in Servant Season 2? Let us know in the comments below.
Servant is streaming on Apple TV+.