‘Servant’ Recap: ‘2:00’

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode 204 of ‘Servant’. 

Normally, in stories that revolve around loss and trauma and the long road back from both elements; the person that has suffered the pain in question… is often times the hero of the story. Because watching them fight off the darkness and rise to the occasion is inspiring for certain and it does indeed make them a hero in the eyes of the audience since they take part in a brave and difficult act. Which is why a great deal of us have been glued to Dorothy and Sean Turner’s harrowing plight in the AppleTV+ series, Servant. Because we’ve been waiting for them to start that heroic journey back into the light so they can inspire us with their bravery. and enjoy some semblance of peace after all this time. 

But alas, as the show continues along and the draw of Jericho continues to pull upon their souls, all of us are starting to wonder now, whether or not this particular saga is going to provide us with a story that instead shows us how loss and trauma can transform a person into something quite bitter and potentially evil… as evidenced by this week’s tale. For ‘2:00’ saw Leanne settle back into the Turner abode in a supremely unnerving manner. For Dorothy locked her up in the attic of the house with no access to the restroom or much else for that matter. All in the hopes that a little pressure would motivate Leanne to finally tell her the whereabouts of Jericho so the family could be reunited. Despite the fact that of course, there’s a little magic involved with such matters.

However, despite Dorothy’s pressings, no truth came from Leanne’s lips, and even Sean was unable to get much out of her outside of a little kindness, since Leanne did return the ability to taste and feel to him, for offering her a little decency. If anything, it just seemed as though this whole situation was at an impasse. Simply because Sean and Julian couldn’t call the cops since they would be implicated in a kidnapping, so everyone simply hoped that a burnout on Dorothy’s part would finally bring about a parting of the ways with Leanne, the kind that wouldn’t get the family in trouble and well… that’s when things took quite the dark and terrifying turn. Because the fury that Dorothy experienced over not getting any answers or direction, boiled over at 2:00 a.m. every single morning, and it motivated her to do the unthinkable and hurt Leanne physically.

Which made for some terrifying moments for certain, since we’ve never seen Dorothy filled with this kind of unrequited and unrestrained rage. But she was happy to indulge it at this hour and leave Leanne cowering and nursing her bruises and wounds. Yet while that alone was unsettling to watch and spoke volumes to the fact that trauma can indeed allow for people to indulge in their darker sides, the end of this episode definitely leaves the viewer wondering if Dorothy is already lost to her pain and is merely putting on a show in order to function. Since she was fine with knocking Leanne unconscious and burying her in the muck of the repairs being done to the basement, and had it not been for Sean waking up at just the right time, Leanne likely would have died and well… it is definitely safe to say that is a game changing episode for certain.

Because in fast fashion, Dorothy is shaping up to be the villain of this story and a dangerous one at that. Which means that like it or not, Sean and Julian are going to have to act fast on what comes next for her, since she is clearly ready to cause major harm to Leanne in the name of Jericho. And it should be interesting to see if this equally as broken duo is going to be able to stand up to Dorothy and tell her the truth about what happened and stop this or if they’re fine with the status quo and well… this really was quite the powerful episode when all is said and done. One that undoubtedly took a great deal of fans by surprise, and this one will definitely have everyone counting down the minutes until next week’s tale, since we are all dying to know what kind of fallout is going to come about from Dorothy’s disastrous and dastardly actions.

‘Servant’ is available to stream right now on AppleTV+.

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