The list of things you could potentially give thanks for grows by one this Thanksgiving, with the premiere on Thursday of the new sort-of-horror series “Servant” on Apple TV Plus. Turkey, football, family, M. Night Shyamalan. It’s a full day.

To be clear, “Servant,” which comes in 10 half-hour episodes — the first three stream Thursday, with subsequent chapters arriving on Fridays, beginning Dec. 6 — has something in common with Shyamalan’s one previous television project, the Fox series “Wayward Pines”: not too much Shyamalan. He’s the glamour name among the executive producers, and he directed two episodes, but the show was created and written by the British TV veteran Tony Basgallop .

That’s discouraging if you think that Shyamalan’s movie screenplays are monuments to ingenious plotting. If you tend to think the opposite — that their dopiness and gimmickry too often cancel out the appeal of their polished creepiness — then it’s reason for hope. Basgallop’s last two writing-producing gigs were on Cinemax’s “Outcast” (horror) and Epix’s “Berlin Station” (espionage), a pair of smart and entertaining genre pieces. Has he kept that streak going?

Watching the first season of “Servant” (Apple has already ordered a second), you may have a more pressing question: Just what the heck is it?