EPISODE
SEASON
SCHEDULE
Servant - Season 1
It is a series of challenges and turmoil faced by a troubled young couple. The couple live in their home and decide to replace their newborn with a vibrant doll. The couple decided to do so after their child died of health complications, as they began to face different and strange paths.
19 May 1970, San Francisco, California, USA
3 July 1979, New York City, New York, USA
22 April 1957, Homestead, Florida, USA
18 May 1951, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
May 4, 1987 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
12 October 1971, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
13 January 1959, Dover, New Jersey, USA
15 December 1972, Pennsylvania, USA
June 15, 1990 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
November 27, 2019
The show unravels its story through its brisk half-hour episodes by maintaining the aforementioned delicate balance, and rewarding patience with deep character growth.
November 26, 2019
Thereby hangs a dark tale.
November 26, 2019
If it sinks too deeply into the quagmire of weirdness it could very well stop being scary and become, instead, merely eccentric. Servant is veering close to campiness already.
November 25, 2019
A small, but impressive cast also do wonders.
November 26, 2019
Servant starts off with creepy atmosphere to spare. The problem is that it doesn't have nearly enough story to fill 10 episodes, which means that all that spare atmosphere gets used up well before its five-plus-hour running time is over.
November 25, 2019
The best original show Apple TV Plus was lurking in the shadows, which is fitting, since it's a horror drama loaded with endlessly intriguing dark shadows of the actual and psychological variety.
November 26, 2019
It offers possible resolutions and answered questions, and seems to get off on withholding them. And despite its shortcomings, we keep going because we want a bite of that chocolate.
November 20, 2019
It's a good premise, surrounded by good ideas, and yet there's no saving something that was never alive to begin with.
November 27, 2019
By bucking the trend of bloated runtimes and unnecessarily long seasons, Servant proves that it's a great thriller, not in spite of its short runtime; but because of it.
November 27, 2019
Right from the outset Servant brings surprises that keep the viewer wrong-footed. It also retains a delicious ambiguity.
November 26, 2019
For all of the plot's shortcomings, moment-to-moment Servant is a delight with a surprising amount of laughs to share.
November 27, 2019
It's eerie and unsettling in ways that television often tries to be but rarely accomplishes.
