Apple TV+'s new M. Night Shyamalan-produced thriller Servant knows what makes you squirm. Read the review:
, which gives you some sense of the big questions viewers are meant to be asking throughout. Are we looking through a perspective prone to delusion or hallucination? Are supernatural things afoot? Something religious or miraculous? Or are we dealing with something more rational, calculating and evil?is cast as a small chamber piece.
Instead, I found myself paying the most attention to little details and subtextual grace notes, some of which frustrated me in their thinness. This is not, for example, a very good treatment of postpartum depression or traumatic coping mechanisms any more thanwas a very good treatment of multiple personality disorder, and I'm sure there's a reasonable argument that Shyamalan would probably be wise to stop using mental illness as a meekly explored catalyst for low-grade thrillers; if somebody wanted to be frustrated or offended at this tendency of his, I would not quibble.
I was much more satisfied attempting to ponder the importance of food in the series, one that I think parallels molecular gastronomy with the mechanics of horror cinema, the misdirections and sleight of hand, the trickery and manipulation of the senses. After 10 episodes, I was more engaged withas a food show featuring a dead baby than as a dead baby show with an abnormal amount of cooking.as an American TV equivalent of one of the year's best feature films, Bong Joon-ho's.
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