Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Entertainment
  3. News

M. Night Shyamalan’s Apple TV+ series Servant gets its first, creepy trailer

Rick Marshall
By
Servant — “Solitude” Official Teaser | Apple TV+

Apple has released the first trailer for Servant, its upcoming thriller produced by M. Night Shyamalan for the Apple TV+ streaming service.

Apple released the trailer during its panel event at New York Comic Con, and also confirmed the premiere date for the series. Servant will debut globally on Apple TV+ on November 28, just a few weeks after the launch date for the streaming service.

Related Videos

Set to star Lauren Ambrose, Toby Kebbell, Nell Tiger Free, and Rupert Grint, Servant was created and written by Tony Basgallop (Inside Men, What Remains) and follows a young couple who let a terrifying force into their lives after suffering a horrible tragedy. Kebbell and Ambrose play the aforementioned young couple, while Free plays the nanny they hire, and Grint plays the brother of Kebbell’s character.

The series will reportedly involve the couple’s use of a fringe coping strategy that has them bring a baby doll into their home and treat it like a living baby, only to end up hiring a nanny to care for the doll. As with any Shyamalan project, mysteries surround many of the characters and concepts introduced in the series.

Basgallop also serves as an executive producer on the series along with Shyamalan, with the latter describing the series as a “sit-thriller” — a psychological thriller told in the short, 30-minute episode format typical of sitcoms.

Shyamalan indicated that he envisions the series as a saga that will unfold over six 10-episode seasons.

“The trailer represents what the show is,” explained Basgallop during the panel. “For me, it all dates back to having kids and the fear that anything can go wrong at any time. I’m clumsy, and you get through it but your life absolutely changes. And whenever you do drama, change is a good thing and you put your characters in uncomfortable positions.”

Apple TV+ will launch November 1, adding yet another subscription-based, direct-to-consumer streaming service to the rapidly growing list of options for cord-cutting TV and movie audiences. Servant will join an impressive list of projects confirmed for the service, including Battlestar Galactica showrunner Ronald D. Moore’s alternate-history series For All Mankind, Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon’s morning talk show drama The Morning Show, and Jason Momoa’s post-apocalyptic saga See.

Editors' Recommendations

Topics
The best M. Night Shyamalan movies, ranked
Dr. Malcolm and Cole looking down in The Sixth Sense.

Say what you will about M. Night Shyamalan, but there's no denying he has a distinctive narrative style that separates him from his contemporaries. The Indian American filmmaker rose to international stardom with his game-changing 1999 horror film The Sixth Sense, cementing himself as the go-to director for daring and twisty plots that captivate fans of thinking-person thrillers. Shyamalan maintained his reputation for the next few years, but his career took a severe hit in the mid-2000s, with his reputation suffering nearly irreparable damage.

Shyamalan has restored his pedigree in recent years thanks to a string of consistently solid projects. His style is not for everyone; indeed, he usually swings big, even when restraint might be the way to go. However, his admittedly ambitious movies attract a loyal fan base, while his stubborn commitment to weighty plots and twist endings have earned him the industry's respect. Shyamalan returns to the big screen with the horror thriller Knock at the Cabin, making this the perfect time to revisit the many highs and severe lows of his erratic, but fascinating career.
13. The Last Airbender (2010)

Read more
Apple’s MLS Season Pass is about more than just streaming games
Apple MLS Season Pass.

The live sports streaming landscape is undergoing a pretty major shake-up in 2023 — football in particular. And while we're talking about both varieties in that regard (the NFL is headed to YouTube and YouTube TV in the fall), Apple and MLS are up first.

Apple's MLS Season Pass — in its first of a 10-year deal — is available as of today, ahead of the first matches on February 25. Available anywhere you can get the Apple TV app — which is pretty much everywhere — MLS Season Pass costs $15 a month or $99 for the full season. You can save a few bucks if you're also an Apple TV+ subscriber, with MLS Season Pass discounted to $13 a month or $79 for the full season in that case.

Read more
M. Night Shyamalan explains how he tells stories in Knock at the Cabin featurette
Two people are tied up and sit down in a scene from Knock at the Cabin.

M. Night Shyamalan has been scaring audiences for over 20 years, starting with 1999's The Sixth Sense. Shyamalan's psychological thrillers are full of supernatural elements that typically end with a huge plot twist. His latest venture, Knock at the Cabin, combines a home invasion with the apocalypse to tell a story that feels larger than life despite taking place in a secluded location.

Knock At The Cabin - "A Look Inside"

Read more