The trailer for Servant season 2 has premiered and promises an eerie follow-up to the first season. The AppleTV+ show’s first season premiered in November 2019 to positive reviews from critics. The show is spearheaded by M. Night Shyamalan and stars Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under), Toby Kebbell (Bloodshot), Nell Tiger Free (Game of Thrones), and Rupert Grint (Harry Potter). Servant was one of the first original series to debut on Apple’s streaming service as they flesh out their library.
Servant‘s first season follows Tiger Free’s Leanne, an in-home nanny, as she nurses Dorothy (Ambrose) and Sean’s (Kebbell) baby. Of course, there’s a classic Shyamalan twist: the couple’s baby had died after being left in a car by Dorothy, forcing Sean to replace the baby with a lifelike doll. When Leanne arrives, so, too, does an alive baby, which is very clearly not the couple’s original son, Jericho. Much of the first season is spent figuring out the origins of baby Jericho. The season ends with Leanne seemingly abducting the baby and her mysterious aunt and uncle.
The trailer, posted by Apple, promises to follow-up on season 1’s cliffhanger ending quite quickly. The clip opens with Leanne addressing the camera but quickly devolves into a series of eerie moments teasing the insanity to come. The trailer finds Dorothy and Sean desperately searching for Leanne and baby Jericho as their loved ones question the circumstances around the baby’s existence and the couple’s dedication to finding it. The show is set to hit AppleTV+ on January 15th.
The trailer shows a more supernatural angle for the show’s second season. The first dealt lightly in the supernatural, grounding most of its scares and unsettling set pieces in the drama between the core trio. The season 1 finale teased a more sinister second season, with the arrival of Leanne’s Uncle George and Aunt May, who appear to be members of a mysterious cult. Expect the second season to dive deeper into the cult’s origins and their connection to Dorothy, whom Leanne seems to be particularly obsessed with.
While much of Shyamalan’s post-Sixth Sense output has been hit or miss, Servant represents a return to form for the creator. A television series’s longer storytelling format has seemed to bring forth more carefully plotted intricacies that his more recent work has been missing. With the director also set to release his mysterious new film Old next year, Servant season 2 could be the first step of an excellent year for the writer-director.
Source: Apple
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