Evil baby rocks to and fro in teaser for M. Night Shyamalan’s new show, Servant
By Dan Selcke
Remember when M. Night Shyamalan was considered a joke destined to burn out? He made Lady in the Water, he made The Happening, he made The Last Airbender, for heaven’s sake. People were long over his brand of atmospheric drag followed by surprise twist ending, and it looked like he was ready to fade quietly away.
But never underestimate the power of a guy with a schtick, or of a comeback story. After a few hits like The Visit, Split, and Glass (I mean, nobody liked that last one but it cleaned up nicely at the box office), Shyamalan is in demand again. He’s got two new movies lined up at Universal and a new show coming out on Apple TV+.
Well, Shyamalan is only executive producing the show, Servant — it’s created and written by Tony Basgallop — but his fingerprints are all over it. Just look at the description from TheWrap, which says the show 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.” Philadelphia is to M. Night Shyamalan what the entirety of Maine is to Stephen King. They can’t stay away.
The new teaser, which features a spooky baby rocking back and forth in a way that isn’t creepy at all, is classic Shyamalan, too, with the deliberate framing and shallow focus. Watch below:
Servant stars Toby Kebbell and Lauren Ambrose as the unhappy couple. Nell Tiger Free, who played Myrcella Baratheon on Game of Thrones, also stars, as does Harry Potter’s own Rupert Grint, Ron Weasley himself.
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Servant joins Apple’s growing lineup of programming, along with the celebrity-studded dramady The Morning Show and See, about a post-apocalyptic world where everyone is blind except for Jason Momoa’s kids. Is this lineup going to be enough to district from Disney’s lineup of Star Wars and Marvel shows, or Amazon’s Lord of the Rings and Wheel of Time series, and everything already going at Netflix? At first glance, it doesn’t look like it, but Shyamalan is involved, so you know there’s a twist coming.
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