Writer/director M. Night Shyamalan appeared at New York Comic Con for a Q&A panel about his body of work – which now includes a new Apple TV+ series called Servant, which is set to launch on Thanksgiving.
Imagine the horror of losing a child. That’s the tragedy at the crux of Servant, which stars Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under) and Toby Kebbell (Black Mirror) as a couple whose 13-week-old infant passes away and leaves Ambrose’s character inconsolable. But that’s just where the story starts.
“The premise of this piece,” Shyamalan explained, “the idea that Tony
came up with, is that a couple loses a child and they wind up doing this fringe therapy with a doll. Which is an actual therapy. But it gets so extreme that the mother decides to hire a nanny to take care of the doll. That premise is so tragic and weird and scary, but it’s also oddly and inappropriately funny.”
Source: IGN.com Servant: Inside M. Night Shyamalan's Sinister New Apple Series