Ready For The Servant Finale? Shyamalan Got a Grim Warning For You
M. Night Shyamalan is well-known for his propensity to make twist endings, though his twists had not always been deemed good by the viewers.
Sometimes, as in The Happening, they also get very much grim. And looks like the ending to Servant, Shyamalan's second big foray into the world of TV series (he was an executive producer and pilot episode director for Wayward Pines before), is going to be grim as well, twists or not.
M. Night Shyamalan explained it this way, when responding to an interviewer who asked whether Servant will have a happy ending.
"By 'happy,' if you mean that the conclusion will be satisfying, yes," he said. "If by 'happy,' you mean that everyone will be happy and safe and fine, I wouldn't count on that."
Then again, Servant is probably not the sort of a series you'd watch if you want upbeat happy endings. Its premise involves death of a newborn child; the child's mother going into a near-total psychotic breakdown, and having to use transitory object therapy with a life-like child doll to avoid total catatonia; and the nanny hired for the "child" possessing sinister supernatural powers, which she herself cannot fully understand or control, but which grow stronger with every day she spends in her new home.
And that's before we learn whose fault that child's death actually was, and before an evil cult gets involved, and before relationships before all the people involved grow increasingly twisted. In short, Servant is a psychological horror series, with some elements of dark humor, meshing mundane mental problems with supernatural forces to craft a variety of disturbing developments.
Servant is also a highly popular, well-received series. It was not planned to be a long-runner, and it is going to be concluded with Season 4, which will start airing on January 13 on Apple TV+. So, if you want to see whether M. Night Shyamalan's words about its ending are going to be proven true, you will be able to do so pretty soon.