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Apple TV+ Thriller 'Servant' Nominated for 2021 TV Choice Award

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Popular Apple TV+ original show "Servant" has been nominated for the Best Drama Series category in the upcoming 2021 TV Choice Awards.

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Apple announced the nomination this week via its official "Servant" Twitter account. The TV Choice Awards is held annually, with winners awarded on the basis of a public vote, rather than being chosen by critics. "Servant" will compete with 62 other contenders in the Best Drama Series category in the viewer-selected awards, which celebrate their 25th anniversary this year.

"Servant," a horror thriller produced by M. Night Shyamalan, follows a Philadelphia couple who are in mourning after losing their child. Their baby, Jericho, is replaced by a reborn doll that Dorothy, the mother, thinks is real, and a strange nanny, Leanne, is hired to look after the doll. After Leanne's arrival, bizarre things begin happening to the family.


"Servant" was one of the first series on ‌‌Apple TV+‌‌, and it has remained popular with ‌‌Apple TV+‌‌ subscribers, following a strong second season. Apple renewed the show for a third season in December.

The winners will of this year's TV Choice Awards will be announced online in early September.

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I have found this TV series very frustrating. Too many questions and hardly any payoff. The biggest problems are the unrealistic characterisations, actions and reactions. It's like the creators have never interacted with real people and thought what they would do in such circumstances.

The concept of the show is good as well as the filming of it, but it stretches credibility to nonsensical and the patience of its audience.
 
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I enjoy the production quality and acting, but yeah… the story leaves a lot to be desired. There’s a lot of build up for what you think is about to be a big reveal and it’s just unsatisfying or weird.
 
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I love love LOVE this show. I find the writing and acting delicious. People who enjoy realism might be disappointed, this is more a show for those of us who like tense psychological thrillers, along with a dash of good ol' camp.
 
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This show is painstakingly slow....
'See' is like a Ferrari compared to this one, and I thought that was slow.

Will it never end?
 
I can't start shows like this - M Night reminds me of JJ Abrams - starts shows with lots of mystery, but never really had an answer to the riddles, which I find to be crazy frustration. JJ's biggest example was Fringe - what a killer show, but more questions than he could answer. I've heard that about Servant so I've avoided it...
 
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jonnysods said:
I can't start shows like this - M Night reminds me of JJ Abrams - starts shows with lots of mystery, but never really had an answer to the riddles, which I find to be crazy frustration. JJ's biggest example was Fringe - what a killer show, but more questions than he could answer. I've heard that about Servant so I've avoided it...
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I actually love that about him. I enjoy living with the ambiguity and unsettling feeling of not knowing the whole story.
 
Like most shows, season 2 was not nearly as good as season 1. But during COVID, if you can have even decent acting and a plot, you're getting awards.
 
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This is like giving the Internet Company credit for the contents of MacRumors… sticking an Apple logo on a movie or an album doesn't make Apple the producer, the artist or anything else of matter to the production.
 
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jonnysods said:
I can't start shows like this - M Night reminds me of JJ Abrams - starts shows with lots of mystery, but never really had an answer to the riddles, which I find to be crazy frustration. JJ's biggest example was Fringe - what a killer show, but more questions than he could answer. I've heard that about Servant so I've avoided it...
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Did you finish Fringe? While I didn't love every direction it went, I didn't feel it left a lot unanswered in the end.

Even though I very much enjoy The Servant once I acclimated to each season's groove...a lot will depend on the final explanation for everything. It's one of the shows I look forward to each week tho. Most shows I just wait and binge anymore.
 
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Did you finish Fringe? While I didn't love every direction it went, I didn't feel it left a lot unanswered in the end.

Even though I very much enjoy The Servant once I acclimated to each season's groove...a lot will depend on the final explanation for everything. It's one of the shows I look forward to each week tho. Most shows I just wait and binge anymore.
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I did watch Fringe all the way - and I was glad they tried to close it out, but if you go back and watch Season 1, you'll see how much mystery they sweep under the rug. I still loved the show, thought it was a killer X-Files reboot type idea, but I like closed loops and storylines!
 
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I actually love that about him. I enjoy living with the ambiguity and unsettling feeling of not knowing the whole story.
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Personally I find with programmes like Servant and Fringe it's not so much a feeling I don't know the whole story, it's more that there was no story and they were making it up as they want along
 
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pushing through to the end of season 2 was a total ball ache. Its just so stupid. I won't be bothering with season 3. NO ONE BEHAVES LIKE THAT IN R£AL LIFE
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There's nothing wrong with stories about people who don't behave like real people would, it can be an effective storytelling technique (I'm thinking of films like Mother! or The Killing of a Sacred Deer). The issue is you need to have a story in mind that you want to tell in that style, not just random stuff put together as it occurs to you.
 
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This is like giving the Internet Company credit for the contents of MacRumors… sticking an Apple logo on a movie or an album doesn't make Apple the producer, the artist or anything else of matter to the production.
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Tell that to Netflix. They've won plenty of awards for the same.

Apple took a chance and put a ton of money into this show and supported Shymalan's vision and gave him creative freedom. Other networks might have hampered that vision - just look at Warner Brothers/HBO Max, they forced Mortal Kombat to include a brand new character because corporate thought it would be appealing to new viewers. A platform is a massive deal.
 
I gave up on it halfway through episode 7, after they willingly allowed that creepy uncle guy into the house. In this sort of story there needs to be a character who sees the insanity of everyone else and fights against it, but it seemed that everyone was willing to go along with it.

To any rational observer, the wife and nanny are baby-snatching crazy. The husband knows it, Ron Weasley knows it, but they daren't mention it beyond a few snatched whispers in the wine cellar. It's just frustrating.

I think it's something like Lost, where the writers came up with an idea but have no idea where it's going to end. There's no meaning, it's just filler. It will just meander until people lose interest, then end in an incredibly stupid way that has nothing to do with what has gone before.

I'm out.
 
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I gave up on it halfway through episode 7, after they willingly allowed that creepy uncle guy into the house. In this sort of story there needs to be a character who sees the insanity of everyone else and fights against it, but it seemed that everyone was willing to go along with it.

To any rational observer, the wife and nanny are baby-snatching crazy. The husband knows it, Ron Weasley knows it, but they daren't mention it beyond a few snatched whispers in the wine cellar. It's just frustrating.

I think it's something like Lost, where the writers came up with an idea but have no idea where it's going to end. There's no meaning, it's just filler. It will just meander until people lose interest, then end in an incredibly stupid way that has nothing to do with what has gone before.

I'm out.
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Actually, I think the writers put a ton of thought into this show. You're operating as if this show is taking place in our reality - I'm of firm belief that the characters are all already dead and in purgatory. If you notice, you'll find a lot of clues that the various characters have all previously died in different ways (overdose, burnt to death, suicide, etc.)

The beauty of this show is that there is so much incredible ambiguity. For someone like me who obsesses over theories and loves to analyze shows piece by piece, this show is a veritable feast.

Furthermore, the show is slated for 4 seasons exactly. Shyamalan has written the show with a 4 season arc and there is absolutely an end point and a grand vision going on. This is the kind of show where you need to be a more abstract thinker and not as much a realist.
 
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