observing season 3 episode 9 was titled commitment dorothy and frank hatch a plan to get leanne
out of the turner household for good what is going on to all my servant fans out there and welcome
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servant season 3 episode 9 commitment which means we have one more episode left and if you ask me
this was a bit of a disappointment we're gonna break it all down here in this spoiler review
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want do get some my thoughts here in a second but go ahead and leave your thoughts in the
comments your pros your cons again this is the second to last episode of this third season
i was a bit underwhelmed let me know your thoughts your easter eggs and what you all hope to see
in next week's finale let's talk about it in the comment section so hey let me just jump right into
my initial thoughts and we'll break it all down together as a community as we always do and i
love these parts of the week when we can all talk about this show but i'm not gonna lie you all know
i have been champion this third season i think is just as good if not better than season one
the tension the character arcs the reveals that we've been getting so far certain answers we begin
so far but this episode to me felt like rinse recycle repeat this was a definitely a dorothy
centric dorothy focused episode but not on the stuff that i wanted to learn about dorothy it
was stuff we already knew and then to put in the trope of the crazy woman i see i've seen a million
horror films and i've i'm so tired of that trope sometimes it can play it can be innovative they
can do something new to the genre but i mean come on we've seen this song and dance before
me and you both know that dorothy's loose in the head we know the stuff she's went through with
jericho but we don't learn about her mom we don't learn about this kind of betrayal she get from her
dad we don't learn any stuff that we already knew about her that's what was so frustrating with me
in this episode i'm thinking we're gonna lead up to this point where her mom's gonna walk in
we're gonna find out what happened to her mom we're gonna get some big reveal but we just i mean
there's some good to i'm gonna bring up some good things but just overall i'm just like come on man
this is the second to last episode and you're giving me something already new
before i get into iran again i'm gonna point out the positives but overall i'm underwhelmed i am
underwhelmed but let me know your thoughts in the comment section let's break it down
and try to find some goodness in this second to last episode of this third season as we open the
episode and correct me from wrong for all of my you know correctors out there and i love every
single one of you all commenting but is this the first time we've ever like got like a part two
of of an episode like this literally picked up moments after last week's episode where we see
the results and the reaction the shocking murder of isabel as we open with dorothy in the bathroom
which is interesting that we open with her in the bathroom we in with her in the bathroom
and she's still just trying to wrap her mind around what just took place and even more shocking
in this opening scene i thought that we were going to have the moment where leanne confesses
i'm powerful i can do anything i put my mind to as they're having this conversation of what actually
happened leanne tells her that she wanted to help and this was the best way that she can help and
she doesn't explicitly say i killed isabelle to protect you and protect jericho but i think i'm
thinking this moment leanne understands what just happened but no dorothy doesn't know what
just happened i'm thinking that she's on some psychological level she can maybe understand a
little bit of what leanne was just doing for the family considering that dorothy last year drugged
leanne kidnapped her for the sake of jericho and now obviously on the extreme level leanne just
killed somebody to protect the family so i i was thinking that there was going to be some type of
like maybe dorothy sides with leanne because she sees that she's willing to kill someone for the
family but we really didn't get that in this scene which was again one of many examples to me in this
episode that they could have went there they could have dove into what did you just do i killed her
for the protection of you dorothy because i love you as my mom and i love jericho like my brother
but we didn't get that that is one example of many disappointing moments for me let me know
did you all want the reveal or were you satisfied with that opening sequence let's talk about in the
comments as we move on we see leanne continues to do anything and everything that she wasn't able
to do as a member of the lesser saints as she is again she's putting her foot her foot is beyond
at this point in the in the deep end of the pool she's fully immersed into the dark side as she's
now having sex with julian in public well in public per se in the backyard of the turner's
house she thinks she's covering up the camera because she wants to smoke some weeds she find out
from julian is no longer there but she's just like hey if i ain't gonna be able to support my advices
this way well i want to have sex with you julian and she does and we see dorothy creepily watching
with jericho there that was a little weird but what i took away from the scene again this is the
the little things i'm trying to stretch out in regards to maybe planting to seeds of something we
can expect in next week's finale or in potentially the last season of the show i think it's important
to note that we've been talking about this in the comments there has been some type of foreshadowing
at the beginning of this season and even last season of maybe leanne getting pregnant whether
it be the moment where sean bumped in her with the goat's blood and it got on her stomach whether it
was just different ways of them kind of showing her like highlighting her you know lower half i
think this scene may allude to and again who can she get pregnant by well i think it's clear that
it's julian if that is the plot that they might go with which i would be interested to see where that
goes and her giving birth to an antichrist type of situation or birth to some type of you know evil
identity with this child that could potentially happen but again the reason i say that is because
they're clearly having unprotected sex as they're having sex on the patio so we've been talking
about that for weeks i think this is a scene that kind of maybe proved that point that maybe by next
week she's going to take a pregnancy test and she might be pregnant with julian's child let me know
your thoughts on that but as we move on more of the termites found in the house as we see dorothy
gets termites in her cereal which i'm not gonna lie i just about threw up just thinking of eating
turmeric let me not even say that anymore but you know me i love to dive a little deeper what
are the significance of termites right we all know there's disgusting you don't want termites in your
home but let's dive a little deeper in what they can actually symbolize and what i found online is
that termites symbolize the cycle of destruction and rebuilding helping you to spiritually find the
meaning of something that is passing or being rebuilt usually you will start dreaming about
term rights when you face new challenges or recent failures now i heard the word destruction rebuild
putting that into these termites in the house we know this house has been falling apart
we know that they're trying to rebuild this family there's some significance in termites let me know
if you all are on the same wavelength to me or if you have some other deeper meaning of these
termites let's talk about that but moving on as dorothy continues to spy on leanne
who at this point is meeting roscoe in the park with her group of followers again
roscoe what has he been doing these last two seasons besides his whole scene last year when he
met him we still don't know who that is but what's up with rosco what is he doing at this point but
again uh and i want to just have a little bit of a levity with you all because again i wasn't
the biggest fan of this episode but i want to give you all a shout out for last week's comments when
i asked you all what is the name we have to come up with with leanne's cult and her following there
were so many great responses i couldn't pick one i could not pick one but i just wanted to shout out
every single one of you all that i mean there was the leanne's the lesser lesser saints the greater
saints i mean there were just so many there were so many that just had me cracking up laughing the
creativity that you all came up with was fantastic so again i couldn't pick one because they were all
so amazing but i just want to put that out there i appreciate every single one of you all but going
back into the episode here we see with leanne at the park dorothy plants the babies transmitter
into the dollhouse which again correct me from wrong in the comments i knew that there was a
doll her doll house in her room i never seen her interact with it but i'm starting to think this
goes to my hereditary brain if you all seen arias hereditary and the significance of the dollhouse
i wonder is it leanne that's making the house fall apart and she has like this type of her powers are
destroying the house from within because she has this house that metaphorically she's built and she
can like almost like a voodoo doll she's the one planting the crack in the basement the termites in
the house because of that dollhouse let me know if you all are thinking the same thing or if there's
something else more deeper than that let me know your thoughts on that in the comments dorothy goes
back to the journal and takes pictures of that mysterious figure which is safe to assume that the
same figure that roscoe was referring to the hand the hook him and all that stuff that's probably
the leader of the lesser saints or whoever they pray to and believe in out loud the devil
especially with it being surrounded by flames i don't know if that maybe is leanne talking about
maybe her mom or her dad but i think it's pretty safe to say that that figure is probably what they
pray to as far as lester saints go she takes a picture of herself and then there's a page of
leanne's room that's half missing but then she also finds the bible when she sees her name you
know obviously shawn's name and leviticus she also sees that there's a letter to in loving to
granddad i don't know if that's leanne's granddad or someone else but also it's important to know
that that was in jeremiah and the page of the bible which again jeremiah jericho might be
some connections there very interesting stuff but again biggest thing i took away was the mysterious
figure in the flames is that who the lesser saints pray to let's talk about that moving on
to our next scene here as she is going through her clothes she distracts lingan she's like oh
you look so nice in my workout clothes let me let's take some pictures let's go ahead and again
dorothy she's so good at manipulating people which is so funny all of the symptoms she
gave to leanne from the outside and you can say the same thing about dorothy but she is
you know playing into let's be friends again let's trust each other again let's take photos she's
calling her oh my girl and being all you know all cute and nice let's not forget dorothy which she
doesn't ultimately know this but we as an audience know the last person who tried to play leanne
ended up dead so uh dorothy your whole games you need to watch out because leanne ain't
the one to play with but as we move on to the next sequences here as dorothy attempts to text her dad
she's calling him and she falls asleep for what seems like the whole day she hears a wish we
never really got the reveal of that she hears like a bunch of noises in the house throughout
the episode again i don't know if that's alluding to leanne if that's alluding to her group she's
allowing him to be upstairs or whatever the case may be but she's hearing she heard something she
walks outside she calls her dad she wants to get to psychologists out there and then wants to have
a conversation and we see that there the camera was looking at uh you know dorothy i think it's
safe to say that that was leanne looking on at dorothy and maybe that's how she played into
what happens a little bit later but as we cut to dorothy continues to play leanne and she gets her
to ultimately agree to see the therapist together we get a quick shot of dorothy and jericho walking
in the middle of night and we have you know in the background in the shadows leanne stalking them
again the creepiness leanne has been on point this season but in comes the doctor called dr mckenzie
who was recommended by dorothy and julian's dad which i wonder if he committed their mom
i don't know something i'm just theorizing leanne quickly learns that this isn't about you know her
and dorothy coming and fighting their demons it's more about leanne as she has his one-on-one with
the doctor dorothy sneaks into her room yet again julian pops in at this point she's confronting
her brother about again sleeping with leanne stop doing it and i said it i'ma say it again
dorothy doesn't realize that leanne has definitely has something on julian mentally power wise he
is 100 in on leanne protecting leanne as the same goes with sean who was very absent in this episode
they explained to us that he's been working whatever the case may be but
i've been disappointed by sean this season he has literally been put on the back burner and
you know we'll get to that a little bit later with just him not really being that involved but you
know they're having the conversation he suggests to her that this is not a good idea to have the
doctor there especially having their dad involved because it seems like they don't have a lot of
faith in her dad that he can switch on them at a drop of a hat which she does in this very episode
so in comes dorothy having her time with the doctor he wants more background and again as
she's describing you know leanne's manipulative she abuses herself she does all these bad things
again if you take out of context what we know about leanne and just put dorothy in those same
positions she does she's almost doing she's they're almost like the same person minus
the magical spiritual evil powers that leanne had dorothy has the same symptoms she's manipulative
she can be abusive to not only herself but to others so it's really kind of interesting to
hear her say what she feels leanne has those attributes she has the exact same things but
we cut to leanne learning that one of her own from her group has been taken which might speak to the
lesser saints which if we're being honest besides the carnival or the black party that was the only
like presence we've got of the lesser saints so far again the beginning earlier this season
they were alluding to maybe the security guy might be a member you know maybe you know the um
toby's girlfriend but you know we really haven't gotten that much of a lesser saints besides
obviously the reformed group that leanne has taken on so i wonder if that's alluding to the bigger
threat out there the lesser saints have been there the whole time and they're taking her members out
one by one let's talk about that in the comments now the tables have turned as dorothy learns that
her good old dad frank the doctor was there not for leanne but for you baby girl he tells as we
see the doctor saying that you know your dad has concerns about jericho about your safety
you're not allowing him to be held by others and i'm like again i've seen so many horror
films and i'm i'm so sick and tired of the crazy woman trope which is just so annoying
uh for my women uh out there that watch the show and mail you know definitely leave your thoughts
on this but it was just come on man this is played out the whole crazy angle and you know she's crazy
she's the mom of the baby i'm just sick of it and the way they handle it it was just so generic
i'm not gonna lie but within that subtext within that scene the thing that i took away from it was
yet again i can't praise enough the performance by leanne when she comes in starts to speak on behalf
of dorothy which i did not see that coming but it just goes to show you how much faith and love and
care leanne has for dorothy which just speaks so in her mind and just speaks so much to the
character that she knows dorothy wants her out of this house she knows that dorothy isn't there for
her but yet she still is fighting going to bat for dorothy which again just speaks so much to just
going back to lyanna season one when she met dorothy at a young age and how she looked up
to her how she wanted her to be their mom there has to be more to that there has to be more of
a connection to dorothy and leanne for leanna go to bat for her in that moment which i thought was
gonna be a reveal in this episode but who knows what next week holds as she convinces frank and
dr mckenzie that she will allow jericho to be held by someone which she ultimately does hold jericho
in with the doctor giving dorothy the prescription drugs which she should take immediately
she runs in the bathroom we end creepily with leanne singing a lullaby to jericho so again
i tried to find things to pull out of episode again i'm taking the whole okay when are we
going to get the reveal of who they pray to i'm referring to lester saints why are leanne's group
members being taken out who took that person is it a lesser saints member is it someone else entirely
and what now with leanne and dorothy will dorothy just you know commit herself to her because she
just protected her will she continue to do these desperate measures to get her out and ultimately
learn that she needs to be in this house to keep your child or jericho alive will we get
a better understanding of this trance that i've been talking about with sean and and uh
julian which again i love the actor uh you know that plays sean he's just been in the foreground
i was hoping to learn more about him him being homeless his beliefs which we got his episode
but i just wanted more from that character again we have one more episode to maybe explore that but
again just knowing that the next week is the finale of season three i just wanted
more from this episode it really didn't build up into anything except for dorothy's at the
point now where it's just her against the world she can't trust her husband she can't trust her
brother she can't trust her dad she now has to find anything and everything in her power to get
lingann out of this house and i guess that's like the biggest theme of the season is this
being question of her sanity doing whatever she can to push out this woman who helped her bring
her daughter or bring her child back to this world so we'll see like i said i was ultimately
a bit disappointed we're not a bit i was very underwhelmed by this episode um and i hope next
week sticks to landing because i've been champion for this goddamn season all season long but those
are my thoughts let me know yours in the comments again thank you all for submitting your answers to
the name of leanne's group and there's so many great ones out there maybe liam will give us a
name next week to go by but let's talk about in the comments pros cons thoughts theories what do
you all hope to see in next week's finale what were maybe some deeper meanings that you all
took from the episode again i talked about my termite you know symbolizing what that
can mean the dollhouse all that stuff so let me know your easter eggs and your deeper meanings
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