Exclusive: Servant season 2 boss and cast on who the real villain is David Opie, Justin Harp
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Servant have shared with
Digital Spy some intriguing thoughts on who the ultimate evil of the show truly is.
While the first season juxtaposed the potentially sinister motivations of nanny Leanne (Nell Tiger Free) with the grieving family she was working for, the latest episodes have unravelled a deeper mystery.
The reborn doll, Jericho, that grieving mum Dorothy (Lauren Ambrose) believed was her actual daughter might actually have been an avatar for the fact that her daughter is still alive – but kidnapped by Leanne s mysterious Aunt May. Or is someone else entirely behind Jericho s disappearance, as Leanne suggests?
When the pandemic hit, I got to sit down and work out the show in my head, he said. How does it go? I wrote down a scene on the board, and I went, Oh! And I wrote about this. And I said, What if this happens over here? I kept writing ideas. I spent a month just throwing ideas at the thing. And I put them together, and went, Wow. This lays out like this. That s four seasons, like that. Also, I didn t expect to be quite as involved as I ve been on the show. When I started it, I was thinking I was launching it, and I was going to supervise it. But I was enjoying myself so much that I was like, Um. let me edit that. Just let me talk to the composer. Let me do that. Let the effects come to me first. I ll be in the mix.