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''Servant'' is an American psychological horror television series created and written by Tony Basgallop, who also executive produced alongside Creator/MNightShyamalan. The series is produced for Creator/AppleTVPlus, and debuted on November 28, 2019. It stars Lauren Ambrose, Creator/TobyKebbell, Nell Tiger Free, and Creator/RupertGrint.
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''Servant'' is an American psychological horror television series created and written by Tony Basgallop, who also executive produced alongside Creator/MNightShyamalan. The series is produced for Creator/AppleTVPlus, and debuted on November 28, 2019. It stars Lauren Ambrose, Creator/LaurenAmbrose, Creator/TobyKebbell, Nell Tiger Free, and Creator/RupertGrint.
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* AgeGapRomance: Leanne (in her late teens) ends up forming a relationship with Julian, [[VagueAge whose age is not specified]], but who is likely about fifteen years her senior.
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* AgeGapRomance: Leanne (in Leanne, who is in her late teens) teens, ends up forming a relationship with Julian, [[VagueAge whose age is not specified]], but who is likely about fifteen years her senior.senior ([[VagueAge though his exact age is not specified]]).
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* AgeGapRomance: Leanne (in her late teens) ends up forming a relationship with Julian, [[VagueAge whose age is not specified]], but who is likely about fifteen years her senior.
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*TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: An [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]] and [[PlayedForHorror terrifying]] example. [[spoiler: From Season 3 and onward, Leanne is determined to cement herself as this in the Turner household no matter how much or how many times they express their displeasure or apprehension to want her gone. She will even use her supernatural abilities to thwart their plans to eject her for good. This stems from Leanne’s pathological desire for a loving and supportive family who are always appreciative of her]].
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** Becomes UnresolvedSexualTension in the series finale. [[spoiler:He calls Leanne to ask her out on a date and she accepts his invitation. Unknown to him, though, she has set the Turner house on fire with herself locked inside, seemingly to atone for her parents' deaths in a house fire when she was a child. [[DrivenToSuicide She succeeds.]]]]
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:Leanne's reason for initially adoring Dorothy and viewing her as "the ideal mother" was because she was nice to her in a kids' beauty pageant on TV once, in contrast to her own abusive mother who forced her to participate in said pageants to begin with. She completely turns on her heel after finding out Dorothy's involvement in Jericho's death.]]
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:Leanne's reason for initially adoring Dorothy and viewing her as "the ideal mother" was because she was nice to her in a kids' beauty pageant on TV once, in contrast to her own abusive mother who forced her to participate in said pageants to begin with. She completely [[BrokenPedestal turns on her heel heel]] after finding out Dorothy's involvement in Jericho's death.]]
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* ShipTease: Leanne with Sean's assistant Tobe. She's visibly jealous when he shows up at the house with [[{{Jerkass}} Sylvia]] in tow (which [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane may have]] led to [[{{Fingore}} the latter's kitchen accident]]). He's also the only person shown to be able to make her genuinely smile, as demonstrated by their interactions at the block party in "Tiger."
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* {{Fingore}}: Tobe's abrasive new girlfriend gets subjected to this in a nasty kitchen accident, in the midst of yelling at Tobe, no less. Leanne's agitation leading up to it (as well as the beehive incident two episodes before) [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane seems to imply]] that bad things tend to happen when she's upset.
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* DeadlyEuphemism: [[spoiler:The Church of Lesser Saints deal with members that have gone rogue by "reuniting" them, which is code for violently murdering them and setting their bodies on fire. Uncle George tried to do this to Leanne but [[EvenEvilHasStandards couldn't bring himself to go through with it]]; Aunt Josephine was more than ready to go through with it but she had her tables turned on her.]]
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* CreepyUncle: A rare non-sexual version, with Leanne's Uncle George. [[Subverted in that he's not really her uncle or her relative at all and is merely a member of a cult whose members are all referred to as uncles/aunts/cousins.]]
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* CreepyUncle: A rare non-sexual version, with Leanne's Uncle George. [[Subverted [[spoiler:Subverted in that he's not really her uncle or her relative at all and is merely a member of a cult whose members are all referred to as uncles/aunts/cousins.]]
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* CreepyUncle: A rare non-sexual version, with Leanne's Uncle George (although it's ambiguous as to whether he truly is her uncle).
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* CreepyUncle: A rare non-sexual version, with Leanne's Uncle George (although it's ambiguous as to whether he truly is George. [[Subverted in that he's not really her uncle).uncle or her relative at all and is merely a member of a cult whose members are all referred to as uncles/aunts/cousins.]]
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:Leanne's reason for initially adoring Dorothy and viewing her as "the ideal mother" was because she was nice to her in a kids' beauty pageant on TV once, in contrast to her own abusive mother who forced her to participate in said pageants to begin with. She completely turns on her heel after finding out Dorothy's involvement in Jericho's death.]]
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Leanne, although most of her "Face" moments are due to [[spoiler:being [[LesserOfTwoEvils less overtly evil]] than the other members of the cult by comparison.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:Leanne is ''very'' resentful of Dorothy for accidentally causing Jericho's death, despite the fact that she herself had also caused the death of her family by accidentally burning down her house, to say nothing of the amount of sinister things she does ''on purpose'' (which, as of the season 2 finale, include actual intentional murder and burning of a corpse).]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:Leanne is ''very'' resentful of Dorothy for accidentally causing Jericho's death, despite the fact that she herself had also caused the death of her family by accidentally burning down her house, to say nothing of the amount of sinister things she does ''on purpose'' (which, as of the season 2 finale, include actual intentional murder and burning of a corpse).]]
* OnlySaneMan: Julian, who at one point proclaims himself to be the "only sane person in this fucking house". He is indeed the one to be the most consistently skeptic of Leanne and [[spoiler:her cult]], although he's ultimately OnlySaneByComparison.
* ReligiousHorror: [[spoiler:Of the "sinister Christian offshoot cult" variety.]]
* ReligiousHorror: [[spoiler:Of the "sinister Christian offshoot cult" variety.]]
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* SenseLossSadness: Sean mysteriously loses his sense of taste early in the series. While this may not be the worst sense in the world for a normal person to lose, for a ''gourmet chef''...
** This escalates in the finale to Sean losing the ability to ''feel pain''.
** This escalates in the finale to Sean losing the ability to ''feel pain''.
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* SenseLossSadness: Sean mysteriously loses his sense of taste early in the series. While this may not be the worst sense in the world for a normal person to lose, for a ''gourmet chef''...
**chef''. This escalates in the season 1 finale to Sean losing the ability to ''feel pain''.feel pain. [[spoiler: This is heavily implied to be due to leprosy and appears to be related to Leanne writing his name on the margins of her Bible on a page about the Test of Leprosy. The symptoms seem to disappear and reappear depending on Sean's interactions with the members of the cult.]]
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* DeadpanSnarker: Julian. Sean has his moments as well.
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* WhamShot: At the end of the premiere. Sean walks into the nursery to look in on the Jericho doll after he thinks he hears a cry over the baby monitor... [[spoiler:and discovers a ''living baby'' in the crib]].
** Another in Episode 9 when [[spoiler: Dorothy is shown retrieving Jericho's body from the car. It's the middle of the night, and Dorothy was last shown leaving her car early in the afternoon, in the middle of a heat wave. She forgot him there for hours - and just like Dorothy, the viewer was totally distracted from his absence.]]
** Another in Episode 9 when [[spoiler: Dorothy is shown retrieving Jericho's body from the car. It's the middle of the night, and Dorothy was last shown leaving her car early in the afternoon, in the middle of a heat wave. She forgot him there for hours - and just like Dorothy, the viewer was totally distracted from his absence.]]
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** At the end of the premiere. Sean walks into the nursery to look in on the Jericho doll after he thinks he hears a cry over the baby monitor... [[spoiler:and discovers a ''living baby'' in the crib]].
**Another in In Episode 9 when [[spoiler: Dorothy is shown retrieving Jericho's body from the car. It's the middle of the night, and Dorothy was last shown leaving her car early in the afternoon, in the middle of a heat wave. She forgot him there for hours - and just like Dorothy, the viewer was totally distracted from his absence.]]]]
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** At the end of the premiere. Sean walks into the nursery to look in on the Jericho doll after he thinks he hears a cry over the baby monitor... [[spoiler:and discovers a ''living baby'' in the crib]].
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* FirstEpisodeTwist: The premier ends with Sean finding [[spoiler: Jericho alive and well in his crib.]]
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* UncannyValley: Deliberately invoked by the creators with the reborn doll. The first version apparently looked ''too'' lifelike, so they created a version that undeniably couldn't be mistaken for real.
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* DeathOfAChild: The entire kick-off of the storyline is the Turners' attempts to deal with the death of their baby son, Jericho.
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* InfantImmortality: Averted. The entire kick-off of the storyline is the Turners' attempts to deal with the death of their baby son, Jericho.
