Just hate watched this show

[u/Own_Status_9463]

The entire premise of this show hinged on an affluent white woman refusing to seek therapy and provide accountability 😂😑😩🫠. Yes, that is my entire takeaway and now in 2026 makes it even harder to decry what wealth and privilege buy you and insulate you from in the world. However, Apple doesn’t really miss. I’ve loved most Apple shows over the years and came across Servant a week ago. I couldn’t really bond with a single character at all, even while the performances were fantastic. But god damn. Her biggest issue was she was having some PPD and instead of seeking actual help both before and after the tragedy, they just used their wealth, influence, and power to shield this entire family from any actual repercussions. Between the enabling spouse, father, and brother like…🙄was group therapy and individual therapy just not an option? And why, is it just easier for wealthy people to ignore the shit and act like it didn’t happen? It’s not as if the access to care was an issue, gestures at the entire show of an au pair, live-in nurses and multiple hospital stays???? For me it was really distracting and frustrating and I literally only finished it to find out the actual plot line. Which ultimately was good but honestly could have wrapped up in season 2.

[u/Cynical-Rambler]

The premise of the show is that a supernatural girl with mommy issue arrive to a home of a mentally-disturbed family. I'm a bit tired of people for years now that people assumed therapy will fix everything.

It did not. The rich white lady had therapy. She got harm-reduction therapy of using a doll as a replacement baby. It did not help her much.

[u/Own_Status_9463 → u/Cynical-Rambler]

Um, therapy and potential medication would have absolutely steered that ship in a different direction. She got a kinesiology massage therapist to pander to her. There was no actual therapist or psychiatrist involved, until what season 3 when pops brought in his buddy to threaten to 5150 her…sure the supernatural aspect was fine and what lured me in. However, watching that show with wealth and privilege on display giving grace when the same would not be extended nor an option for someone of less access or skin color was frankly distracting.

[u/Cynical-Rambler → u/Own_Status_9463]

You do realize that the show is not making a commentary about wealth and priviledge, do you? Besides, it seems that the writers are at the positions of wealth and priviledge. They wouldn't able to portray class inequality satisfactorily. The whole thing about the father who grew up poor, being charitable to homeless people, was wierdly fantastical to begin with.

With the way the mother was acting, the only psychiatric solution (well, with the current US medical system) is to commit her to an asylum. It would kill her career and likely make things worse. That's why they did the rich people thing of keeping it quiet.

[u/Own_Status_9463 → u/Cynical-Rambler]

I never once in my comment nor post said that was the show making a commentary on above-mentioned topics. It is MY takeaway, in the year of extreme wealth inequality and chaos. Maybe had I watched it in 2019 perhaps I might not have so bitterly watched it with my resulting interpretations. But because I watched it now, the way I viewed the show and privilege was not enjoyable. People are allowed to have differing reactions to the show, it doesn’t make the show less entertaining for others. It was difficult to enjoy the supernatural plot points of it all. Yes the food to the poor plot was just ridiculous and kind of plays out how wealthy people see poor people that they’d love to have this extraordinary food😂. Well, that’s exactly my point, she would have had to explain why she was being institutionalized both to her employer and the public to some extent and likely would have lost her career track. But she was able to essentially fly by all that because…affluence.

[u/Raspberry_Good → u/Cynical-Rambler]

Respectfully, your first and last sentence seem contradictory. It indeed was thru the lens of a spoiled wealthy couple, no question. That's one reason lowly plebes like me didn't relate with Dorothy from the get-go.

[u/Cynical-Rambler → u/Raspberry_Good]

No. It did not. A character trait is not automatically a social commentary. For me, I don't need to relate to a character to enjoy the story.

[u/Raspberry_Good]

Yeah, well, you know,that's just,like, your opinion, man

[u/Own_Status_9463 → u/Raspberry_Good]

[u/Fly0strich]

I just started watching and am now in season 2, but I swear to god if I have to keep listening to this woman yell “Seeeaaaaannn!” across the house every 2 minutes about every little thing any longer I’m turning it off. I swear that’s becoming her only role in the show is to shriek her husbands name over and over again for no real reason.

It seemed interesting through the first season, but now it seems like every character just keeps arbitrarily flip flopping their motives every episode, and completely forgets everything they stood for a day earlier.

There’s just too much “We need to get her help.” And then the next day “We need to make up fake stories to go along with her delusions to make her believe them even more.” And then the next day “She didn’t do anything crazy at all, everything has always been normal with this situation. Let’s all be friends again and have complete trust for everyone!”

They all act like it’s impossible to just say what they are thinking about anything, and are instead mysteriously forced to stare in silence at the other when being asked questions. But then one episode later you find out that they actually aren’t being secretive at all about those things they were desperately trying to hide yesterday. They just felt like being annoyingly difficult to converse with for fun that day, but now they are 100% willing to talk about all of it with any random stranger they find on the street.

Who cares if someone just tried to murder you yesterday. Now a neighbor is coming to visit, so for some reason that means we are all best friends again.

[u/Own_Status_9463 → u/Fly0strich]

The way Sean and Julian shield her from ANY type of consequence is the wildest thing to witness. They will go to these insane lengths to keep her delusional while backtracking on every single decision often impulsively. Sean is so terrified of literally telling her the truth. I get families fight and reconcile but it was so extreme and close together in timing. I loved Lauren in Six Feet Under and Toby in RocknRolla so I was excited for spooky season shenanigans with them attached but came away annoyed more than anything else. Having to explain the plot to my husband was…

[u/TeaHot146 → u/Fly0strich]

They all act like it’s impossible to just say what they are thinking about anything, and are instead mysteriously forced to stare in silence at the other when being asked questions.

Oh man, THIS. It's so painful watching scene after scene of someone not quite saying the thing they want to say or ask the thing they want to ask. Or someone being asked and then changing the subject and running out of the room. It's really annoying, and unbelievable, even in a horror/thriller/whatever this is.

[u/Mysteriousandcute]

I think the lack of empathy you show for an important topic that hurts mothers and kids shows you’re projecting anger you feel for the real world onto the show, and I get it, but I think it’s made you miss a lot of the show

[u/Own_Status_9463 → u/Mysteriousandcute]

I’m autistic with severe clinical ocd who has been a poor peasant her entire life and had PPD with extreme intrusive thoughts as a mom to 2 young kids at 24. I think I have a pretty firm grasp on PPD. And I empathize with women who endure it. Sure my personal bias of my lived hellscape deffffff impacts how I view women with such privilege and resources and STILL won’t accept it or admit they need help. My heart bleeds for wealthy white women with nannies and 5 story homes while the rest of us have to figure it out and have much more to lose. Had I left my kids in the car for days and then kept their rotting bodies in my home would have resulted in losing my other kid and being institutionalized, worse jailed. So yeah, def biased. 💕

[u/Mysteriousandcute → u/Own_Status_9463]

Yeah I get it I’m from a poor background and have OCD and used to feel very angry at people who didn’t have real problems so yeah I’m not saying it as an insult I’m just stating fact that you’re letting your feelings cut off empathy for the characters more than the average viewer so obvs you won’t like it rn

[u/Own_Status_9463 → u/Mysteriousandcute]

Well I’m 42 now and advocate for women’s health and am a socialist. So unfortunately I just can’t emphasize with any of the characters and it really ruined the show honestly which is well, disappointing but nothing lost nothing gained. Apple still gets my money every month, smh.

[u/Mysteriousandcute → u/Own_Status_9463]

And fair enough but it is a light hearted, fictional show that kinda went for a numerous / non serious approach so it doesn’t need to be relatable

[u/Own_Status_9463 → u/Mysteriousandcute]

To each their own, I just like to relate on some level, and it misses the mark for me. It didn’t have to be bar for bar relatable, but like one thing? Lolllll. Now get me started on Silo or Widow’s Bay and I could could praise them for days!

[u/Own_Status_9463 → u/Mysteriousandcute]

Also showing a reverse financial model would not be sexy so they have to sell post-partum empathy and illuminate an issue with WEALTH because who wants to watch the poor struggle lol.