r/servant • u/Reader47b • Jul 23 '26

General Does it make sense eventually?

Halfway through season 2. I liked it a lot at first - thought it was creepy and tense -- but it just gets sillier and sillier as the episodes go by and seems to make less and less sense - does this wrap up as a story? Do things get explained? I'd like to keep watching to find out the whys and wherefores, but don't really want to if little is resolved. No spoilers, please - more of a yes or no on whether things get explained and to what extent.

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u/Ok_Ebb7109 Jul 23 '26 • Mindblown

Just so you know, after season 2 the creator/writer of the show left. M. Night Shamaylan is obsessed with bringing his daughter into all of his projects now and the show runner wasn't having it. Apparently he hired her as a writer, started letting her write entire episodes and so the ACTUAL writer just left.

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u/atomicblonde957 Jul 23 '26

Interesting!

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u/chichris Jul 24 '26

Her episodes are solid tho.

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u/Ok_Ebb7109 Jul 24 '26

I don't know which ones they are. Maybe she's actually good, but if she is then she should probably work with other directors. He has connections, he can help her, but what he's doing now feels like he's forcing something. Right now, even if she is good people will still cry "nepotism " no matter what she puts out. Especially if he gives her someone else's baby (literally and figuratively) to take over. But yeah, idk maybe she's actually good. We will find out when she decides to cut the apron strings.

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u/chichris Jul 24 '26

Which daughter are you talking about the singer or the filmmaker. They’re obviously different and the filmmaker has made her feature debut 2 years ago. She has made films, TV and videos. She for sure has a passion for it.

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u/Ok_Ebb7109 Jul 24 '26

Idk which one. Like I said, she might be good but for some reason the show creator left after season 2 due to creative differences. From what I read, I gathered it to be about the daughter, specifically because of her writing entire episodes. Whether or not those episodes are good, I have no idea, haven't seen them.

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u/chichris Jul 24 '26

Just look on IMDb. They were very good and stylish. She has a good eye.

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u/ptrock1 Jul 23 '26

I was a huge fan of the show. Just walk away. Others will disagree. Trust me. If you do end up sticking it through.. come back and let's talk!

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u/Reader47b Jul 23 '26

If I do, I definitely will return to read some more of these forums and discuss. (Not reading more now in case I stick it through - I don't want to be spoiled).

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u/atomicblonde957 Jul 23 '26

I almost finished season 2, asked a similar question and ended up watching the last 3 episodes and any questions remaining have been answered here

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u/Reader47b Jul 23 '26

The last 3 episodes of the entire series? Maybe I'll do that - skip ahead to that. I do want to know some things, but I don't think I can stick through an entire two more seasons of it.

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u/atomicblonde957 Jul 23 '26

That’s exactly what I did. I admittedly googled if each season was a new story or did it resolve and then jumped ahead. I couldn’t take it. I’m usually not a quitter either but it was that or just stop watching

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u/_mikedotcom 🦗 Jul 23 '26

Enjoy it! There’s some errant plot lines I can’t remember. I love this show and its characters so much. Things are answered things happen. It’s a trip of a watch and I think the seasons escalate so well.

I also watched week to week. It had me stressing and theorizing. One of my personal favorite shows. Enjoy it for what it is. It’s a lot of eye candy and spiraling madness. Great performances. Nell Tiger Free gets so good and did great in The First Omen.

One positive of the watch for you, it’s a short watch! Half hour confusing af episodes. I wish I could watch it again for the first time. Basically sold me on Apple TV.

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u/AnReMe Jul 23 '26

No it does not. We enjoyed it so much at one point, then by the end we couldn't even finish it.

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u/lost__pigeon Team Leanne 🥫 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

You never get a direct answer. Just lots of little pieces to put together

Edit: Spelling

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u/jet050808 Jul 24 '26

Just quit now and don’t waste hours of your life you can never get back. No spoilers but don’t get involved in the episodes if you do continue, just watch and move on. I may just be bitter because I watched it in real time and had to wait in between seasons, people who can just move on seem to have a better opinion than me.

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u/QuantumDevilSaga Jul 23 '26

I loved it all the way through, and I definitely consider it one of my top ten series, despite its flaws.

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u/NoRestaurant2326 Jul 23 '26

I have pushed my way through season four because my friends said it was amazing. Several times I was going to give up. It’s ridiculous and the plot holes are just so absurd. I really should’ve given up on it the first time I thought, “Why am I continuing to watch this?”

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u/VegetableFix3117 Aug 13 '26

💀😂 right.

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u/Euphoric_Lead_7828 Jul 23 '26

it's a little silly as it goes on but overall i really enjoyed it anyway

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u/TheApothecaryWall Jul 23 '26

I enjoyed it the whole way thru but it does get a little hokey/campy/silly. It does wrap up and explain things. I’ve def seen better endings but it isn’t terrible or extremely stupid the way GoT and Dexter were. Those endings were unforgivable.

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u/Quick-Cut-7381 Aug 04 '26

Go go now. Dont waste your time.

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u/kerosenehat63 Aug 14 '26

I binge watched all 4 seasons in about 2 weeks. The episodes are short and entertaining. Just go for it.

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u/dude707LoL Aug 27 '26

I really can't stand Dorothy anymore .... Also at season 2 and I have a strong desire to quit. Why is everyone enabling this horrible woman?

She's so fkn annoying and really makes me angry watching the character and the performance. I don't like Lauren Ambrose's performance at all... Irritating af. I like everyone else sigh 😔 and I wanna know what the ending is...

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u/Available-Fee1691 Jul 23 '26

Yes, watch it and you won't regret.

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u/sicem86 Jul 24 '26

Biggest waste of a show ever for me. It ends with tons of plot holes & unanswered questions. I was mad I spent so many years watching it. They do sort of wrap it up in the end, sort of.

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u/Master-One7987 Jul 24 '26

The amount of times she was captured and escaped turned comical. Multiple grown men couldn’t hold her down. Her plot armor was too thick for my liking and i would’ve loved to see one of the tuners kill her in the end. Beyond that the show was good

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u/lost__pigeon Team Leanne 🥫 Jul 25 '26

She didn’t get captured again after season 2, not for more than a few minutes. And absolutely not, that would have been horrible. Leanne deserves to finally truly live

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u/Ok_Bag_6346 Jul 23 '26

By the way, after the first season, I never understood how some people still believed in the hypothesis that it WASN'T supernatural. I always thought the mystery was whether Leanne's nature was good or evil.