M. Night Shyamalan’s Servant suggests anyone can have a happy family if they kidnap one

polygon.com:

For a show that’s not about the internet, Servant is one of the most online shows you can watch. Perhaps that doesn’t make immediate sense — it’s a series about a couple hiring a creepy live-in nanny and a baby doll that seemingly came to life — but the parallels are there. It’s a claustrophobic psychological thriller, entirely set in one family’s expensive Philadelphia townhouse. Said family only interacts with the outside world via screens — and almost as a result, they slowly descend into a haze of paranoia and suspicion. Over time, their insular little world becomes so nonsensical they lose all perspective of what “normal” means, to the point that, in the third season premiere, the girl they locked up in the attic is now a member of their happy family. Servant, in other words, is great TV.

[Ed. note: Minor spoilers for Servant seasons 1 and 2 follow]

Created by British writer Tony Basgallop and co-executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, who directs a number of episodes, Servant is an Apple TV Plus psychological thriller about Dorothy (Lauren Ambrose) and Sean (Toby Kebbell) Turner, a wealthy Philadelphia couple that hires the mysterious Leanne Grayson (Nell Tiger Free) to be their live-in nanny for their son, Jericho. The twist in the show’s pilot is that Jericho is not a real boy — he’s a doll an unlicensed therapist prescribed as a radical therapy exercise for Dorothy after the loss of their real son Jericho left her catatonic for some time.

That’s enough for an eerie thriller alone, but Servant keeps the twists coming. By the end of the pilot, the doll Jericho is somehow alive thanks to Leanne and it’s not clear if she stole a new baby to replace the doll, or if she has supernatural powers of some nature. By