Horror on episodic TV is difficult to pull off for one big reason: Pacing. As the back halves of most “American Horror Story” seasons tend to prove, keeping up a tone of dread over hour…
subscribers on a weekly model and not, initially, available to binge, the mood it conjures is so overwhelming, so claustrophobically creepy, that it’s easy to feel instantly stifled when an episode begins.
Less convincing is the manner by which the story stretches on, and on. The premise, involving a couple who, after the loss of their baby son Jericho, pretend he’s still alive.
And yet for all this, and for all that “Servant” is the most watchable show yet in Apple’s vexed rollout, the series’ somewhat loopy pacing is punishing. Leanne seems as the show runs on to represent far less than meets the eye; episode after episode unfolds without her doing much of anything but seeming threatening in her inaction. And to get to a new understanding of Dorothy, one has to trudge fairly deep into the series’s run, long after some viewers may have written her off.
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