Servant Season 3 Ending Explained: What Happened With Dorothy? Does Dorothy forgive Leanne?
Let’s try to analyze and explain the season finale of Servant Season 3, the Apple TV+ series signed by M. Night Shyamalan, but beware of spoilers! One of the main merits of the Servant TV series (one of the flagship products of Apple TV+, which is expanding its catalog with original products of often above-average quality) is that of being able to create well-rounded, multifaceted and well-defined characters. Characters – in the absurdity of the context in which the story unfolds – human and therefore often contradictory. We think of the tribulations of Sean, who never doubts the fact of being next to his wife Dorothy even though the situation becomes more and more unbearable; or to Dorothy herself, animated by feelings of pure love and pure envy, often for the same person.
Or, of course, Leanne, the servant title: an ambiguous girl with a difficult past, who at the same time manages to embody naivety and malice. It is on her that the third season of Servant, created by Tony Basgallop but produced and in general “coordinated” by M. Night Shyamalan, finally seems to focus, after the definitive rebellion against the sect from which she fled and following the physical elimination by Aunt Josephine, at the end of the second season. The third cycle, after a handful of episodes dedicated to the fear of the young woman, terrified by the mere idea of going out to the park in front of the villa where she lives, focuses on a subtle but inexorable evolution of her personality, as the last two amply demonstrate bets.
Servant Season 3 Ending Explained: Family Is Deceiving More Than Anything Else
In a much more narratively slowed and reflexive season (for detractors, empty and devoid of content) than the previous ones, the two final episodes (Commitment and Mama respectively) became the bearers of the most important emotional and structural shocks. Both concern Dorothy very closely and the ruinous involution of her relationship with Leanne: the woman can no longer bear the girl’s interference she considers it dangerous for the future of her family and for that of Jericho. The problem, however, is that without her neither the child nor the family unit would exist anymore: as the story progressed, we understood that Leanne possesses the mysterious ability to cause tragedies and dramas, almost unconsciously.
Dorothy, to get rid of her, architects two plans that will prove to be unsuccessful: at first he tries to push her away by forcefully enrolling her in an institute with an attached dance school, and then – much more pragmatically, and definitively removing the mask of the understanding tutor – forces his hand asking for a psychiatric examination and subsequent internment. Her move will backfire on her: in fact, with her father’s approval, she will be deemed unstable and in need of medical help. A sentence to which the woman seems to surrender all too placidly, while she obviously ponders an escape route to get out of the way.
What Happens In The Servant Season 3 Ending?
The season finale of Servant Season 3 reserves its best weapons almost close to the credits. Throughout the episode, in fact, a discontent and an obsessive-paranoid atmosphere spread beyond expectations: Dorothy is sedated, family harmony seems to have been restored and Leanne has resumed attending without particular impediments the homeless people who have established in the park below the house, who venerate it for its ability to rebel against the dogmas of the sect. The calm is, it goes without saying, apparent, a prelude to an overwhelming storm: Dorothy pretends to accept the new rules imposed inside the villa, which in the meantime is literally falling apart and rots under the distracted eyes of its inhabitants.
In truth, as both Sean and her brother Julian guess quite easily during the episode, she has never resigned herself and thinks about running away at night with little Jericho. The last few minutes condense a plot twist and a cliffhanger worthy of Shyamalan’s creativity: Leanne discovers the woman’s attempt to leave, and she is absolutely unwilling to accept a new family fragmentation. Indeed, recognizing Dorothy as the parent she never had, she even proposes to run away together. An idea that will obviously be rejected, and that will trigger yet another and definitive catastrophe, with Dorothy falling into the void and the curtain closing on her tortured and dying body
Night Shyamalan, But Not Only: The Directors Who Contributed To The Success Of The Series
We have already said it, and here we repeat it: although Servant was officially created and coordinated by the British Tony Basgallop (former author for the soap opera EastEnders, one of the most popular shows in the United Kingdom, and for the TV series 24), it is not we can do without associating it with M. Night Shyamalan and his way of making cinema and audiovisuals. His is the photography, his are the turning points, his is the atmosphere of a product that has also been compared to the latest Twin Peaks. An exaggeration? Maybe, but there’s no denying that Servant manages to keep the bar of tension very high even in its moments of total and philosophical stasis. It is also true, however, that in these three years other directors have also had the opportunity to test themselves with one or more episodes of the series, contributing to the creation of a heterogeneous and incredibly multifaceted work, which dialogues with the same naturalness with psychology and with the supernatural.
All emerging names of arthouse cinema or belonging to the undergrowth of contemporary independent horror. We think of Carlo Mirabella-Davis, behind the camera for the icy Swallow or the Austrian couple formed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, known for the chilling Goodnight Mommy. And again to Julia Ducournau, winner of the Palme d’Or 2021 with the controversial Titane, and to the Hungarian Nimrod Antal, also awarded at Cannes in 2004 for Kontroll. It rarely happens that such a large group of established directors give their support in such a compact way to the project of another author: this is also an important signal, which establishes and sanctions how Servant represent a unicum by no means negligible within the extremely fluid world of seriality.
What Will Happen in Servant Season 4: The Latest Season Of The Apple TV+ Series?
Never before has it been difficult to imagine what Servant will reserve for the future, also considering that the fourth will be the last season scheduled. Much will depend on how Dorothy is decided to survive (assuming she survives, even if it seems unlikely that she will leave the scene) and how she will interact with her family. Taking into consideration Leanne’s strong attachment to the Turners, it is possible to predict that the girl feels strongly guilty, having for the first time injured one of her members (the most important of her, to her) of the “pack”. For sure, the fourth season will begin with the full awareness of his faculties, not only by us spectators but also by the group of protagonists.
The sudden reappearance of the revived Uncle George will probably do the rest: the man has not given up at all and, as declared at the end of season 3, he feels that the end is near and that everything is rapidly rotting. How will he try to reconnect with the Turners? Perhaps by performing a miracle in turn (saving Dorothy?), Like the one created by Leanne with the reborn doll. Shyamalan’s filmography teaches us a lot in this regard: let’s expect many twists – the famous and infamous Shyamalan twist – and many alienating twists. With a hint of social satire, black humor and caustic mockery: We may discover, for example, that Jericho is indeed Leanne’s son, and that his magical virtues are only the fruit of our imagination.
