![]() READ: ‘Between the World and Me’ Review: “Learning to Live Within The All of It” He’s a man who, for all his brashness, deeply cares about the people around him, shouldering their guilt on his shoulders. It’s a harrowing character moment that provides previously unseen insight into Julian. Julian starts to well up as Natalie comforts him, telling him that his problem is that he doesn’t commit himself to the help he needs to get for himself. But when he realized he couldn’t “hit the back wall”, he lost interest. Unprompted, Julian goes on a monologue where he talks about wanting to go to space, to its very edge, and hit the back wall of it when he was a child. They send Roscoe home, unable to decipher what to do with this information. It could be hinting at anything, from the demonic to merely a sadistic cult leader, or was it all in Roscoe’s head? If it’s either of the former, that would signal a huge, potentially exciting direction change for Servant. That line is the stuff of nightmares, and, expectedly, it shakes everyone in the room to the core. This “Him” apparently has a hook for a hand, and once He receives a (the?) baby, “He takes out the yes and he throws them away”. He recalls having his hands tied, being taken to a dark room – apparently still in Philly, where “they’re on their knees for Him”. While he’s under, Roscoe looks like the fear of God has been put into him. Here comes the episode’s best scene, and one of the scarier ones Servant has had so far. Wouldn’t anyone be? Where was he that entire time? They seek to answer this by inviting Natalie (Jerrika Hinton) over to perform some hypnosis on him. Roscoe seems to think only one day has passed since the christening, and when Julian and Sean inform him it’s been four days since then, he’s flabbergasted. As the two continue to barter over a fake ransom, a familiar face shows up: their private detective John Roscoe (Phillip James Brannon). It’s ridiculous, but given the ridiculous situation, it just might work? READ: ‘WandaVision’ Episodes 1 & 2 Reviewīack to Julian and Sean. On live TV, she announces that Leanne is missing and asks her to come home. During a late-night newscast, she talks in a motherly voice before dropping a bombshell. What’s her plan? Well, as we see later in the episode: to try and speak to “Jericho”. Horrified, she decides she has to go into the news station to try something completely outside the box. ![]() She carefully studies a video of the cult she reported on, wherein a man constantly flagellates herself. The dark humor gives way to some real darkness, however, as the focus comes back on Dorothy. Part of Servant‘s appeal is the pleasure of seeing this situation spiral out of control, and this scene delivers. Julian suggests doing a ransom, but the two can’t seem to agree on a price point. It’s now abundantly clear Sean is in on the ruse, but two heads aren’t exactly better than one. It’s a hilarious little character moment that’s a testament to Grint’s bizarrely great performance and how prickly Julian is, even when he tries to do good.Īnother quite funny scene follows, where Julian and Sean (Toby Kebbell) try to figure out what the next step is in their deception of Dorothy. As she walks away, Julian puts the costume on the doll, exclaiming “who wants to go to space? You fucking do!”. She scoffs at the gift, telling Julian that his issue is that he doesn’t believe in anything. To lighten the mood, Julian hands Dorothy an unusual gift: a spaceman costume he was going to give the baby. Determination in her eye, it’s clear to Julian she’s not going to stop until she has that baby in her arms. ![]() This time, however, the footage is of Leanne (Nell Tiger Free) holding the baby Dorothy believes to be Jericho. When Julian goes downstairs to question her about it, he catches a familiar sight: Dorothy maniacally studying old video footage. Disconcertingly, he discovers the bathwater still running. We begin with Julian noticing a hole in the wall, presumably where Dorothy had discovered the hidden camera. ![]() Picking up on that, much of this week’s Servant focuses on the guilt this leaves him with. Where we last left things, it appeared that Julian (Rupert Grint) was now complicit in maintaining Dorothy’s (Lauren Ambrose) false reality. ![]() Click here for our coverage of the season’s premiere.Īfter an outstanding season 2 premiere, Julia Ducournau returns to direct the second episode of the sophomore season, entitled “Spaceman”. This article will contain full spoilers for Servant Season 2, Episode 2. ![]()
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