Servant creator M. Night Shyamalan initially planned for the gloomy thriller series to amass a hefty six seasons. M. Night told Digital Spy in 2021 that when he first started working on the show, his "arbitrary number" of episodes for the entire series came to a goal of 60 episodes. He may have gotten ahead of himself, however.

"When the pandemic hit, I got to sit down and work out the show in my head," M. Night explained. "How does it go? I wrote down a scene on the board, and I went, 'Oh!' And I wrote about this. And I said, 'What if this happens over here?'" Clearly, ideas solidified as he continued planning and outlining his storyboards.

He added: "I kept writing ideas. I spent a month just throwing ideas at the thing. And I put them together, and went, 'Wow. This lays out like this. That's four seasons, like that.'"

Naturally, the Signs director feels that a four-year commitment is more doable than a six-year commitment, and he wants to "finish it properly." He's avoiding the series being dragged out or ending flatly.

"I don't want to feel that 'he limped across the finish line while he was actually trying to do something else' – that would be sad," he stated.

We get it, M. Night Shyamalan's a busy man; he's got twisty horror movies to make! In fact, his mysterious upcoming film Knock at the Cabin is set to arrive in 2023.

The first five episodes of Servant Season 3 are currently streaming on Apple TV Plus.