Season 2 out now! | From (2022- TV series): From is an American science fiction-horror television series created and written by John Griffin and executive produced by the Russo brothers. FROM unravels the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest; including terrifying creatures that come out at night.
Original air date: April 10, 2022 - Season 1, Episode 10 (season finale)
Synopsis:
Boyd draws strength from an unlikely source. Jim’s radio tower yields consequences which rock him to his very core. The hole that Tabitha has been digging leads her somewhere – and to someone - she could never have expected. Everything is about to change.
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Basically it was 'Here's a Bus!'. No other news, except maybe monsters are on the radio. The End.
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Jade and victor are my faves! Jade brings comic relief and I love victors quirkiness and he knows shit.
How can you not like Jade, literally the only guy not just sitting on his fucking ass all day being grumpy.
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I was really starting to dislike Fatima as the perennial nice tour guide but after she saved Ellis, her character has improved massively.
I like the family, Jim et al. Boyd is amazing in the lead, he brings that half panicked but still courageous vibe, it's his show really. Victor is good. Donna is amazing.
I think there needs to be another strong female lead.
Victor is interesting because he's knows more than he says. That's the worst type of mysterious character, the one who could tell a lot of important info from the start, answering many questions, but he chooses not to. It's irritating.
I don't dislike him enough to want him to die, though. His an unique character (autistic, maybe?) that creates interesting interaction between characters (like with Jim and Ethan)
Jade is a pain in the ass, but despite that he deserves some merit for helping the plot advance with the radio antenna and he has undergone some character growth (it's less insupportable now) and gotten closer with Jim and maybe Tian-Chen ("he may be a pain in the ass, but he's OUR pain in the ass" type of thing).
I kinda expect most characters survive the next season and series, even if they're niche or not very interesting. I don't like seeing characters killed only because the writers don't know what to do with them or just to show the audience how high the stakes are.
Don’t forget about the lighthouse. What was up with that? I’m enjoying this but it’s very Lost like and I have mixed up feeling about that.
What about episode before that? In that one literally nothing happens like literally nothing zero.
Actually that’s when boyd and sara were attacked by something different and the light came. I liked their scenes in the woods too, they were interesting .
Yeah second-to-last episode was filler. Nearly made me want to quit the show. It was mostly them whining about how the experiment might not work. Not a good sign when the season is nearing the end and the episode is literal filler. Last episode was better but anticlimactic.
doesn't feel like much of a story when the entire thing you're just going "what?". Also way too much filler that tries to play itself off as character development with no development happening.
I just came to the point where I skip that useless dialogue, can't give two shits about what the fat lady thinks. So unnatural of everyone to hate the tower idea like they don't even want to try to get out of the nightmare lol. Yeah, don't try anything and yell at people who try because you don't want to give "false hope", bullshit.
I did the same thing after a while. There was just so much bullshit that didn't matter and didn't do anything for the story. Like the woman and her daughter fighting because "you treat me like a child" as if suddenly she forgot that she was in fact a child. There's so many nonsense arguments and it's so stupid. I also really hated the "rich" guy because his character was just so obnoxious but without any redeeming qualities. Also really hated the chinese mom who seriously couldn't remember that no one spoke chinese except her son but yet still would yell it at people all the time for no reason. She just really didn't want to bother learning more english.
Yeah they really REALLY didn't want to bother doing anything that could possibly have made their lives better. Pretty much all the people ever did was party and get drunk. Never really see any of them doing work at all and that's just insane because a town without commerce, industry, logistics, influx of foods or products, etc... would mean they would have to do all of those things themselves. They had these tiny little square gardens and we're supposed to think that it's somehow enough to feed the 100+ people in the town? A modern single farm can only produce enough food for 160 people for an entire year. Any kind of farming they would do would have to be insanely unproductive so it would be pretty much their only jobs. Also someone would have to be fixing stuff like houses, cutting trees for lumber, someone doing metal work(we see some but it's literally only for dumb ass art projects), fixing/mending/making clothing, they'd need leather working, and so much more to survive.
Instead of any of that people just drink and sleep. So dumb. Hell they could have at least removed their windows so the monsters couldn't get in anymore through them.
True, I could also go for days about all the bullshit things happening in this town but I still remember from the very beginning when that one dude gets drunk and his daughter and wife both die.
After that scene we see Sherif yelling at him for not "nailing down the windows" Like wtf? Wasn't it the common sense to nail down the fucking windows the first night they had to survive at that place? How did the daughter survive so far? Why is that father the one who is only responsible to nail the windows? Why is he punished to be eaten alive in a BOX because he didn't nail the fucking WINDOWS??
Are those the only windows in the town not being nailed so far? It seemed like they were there a while and it's very weird that those are the only windows without boards or nails for some reason. Why didn't anyone notice that before? So many questions about that single thing, imagine If we go deeper into many other stupid things happening in this show.
The townies are mysteriously being provided all the stuff they need for survival. The only one they paid attention to was the electricity. But they explained a bit in the ep 8 that after Boyd discovered a goat in the forest, they most likely started getting resources from there. The townies aren't alone there, something is helping them survive. The talisman and the white boy are just some examples.
Man, I thought my attention span was completely shot since I've never skipped dialogue like that before watching this show, happy to hear I'm not alone.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought this. The lack of curiosity by these people is astounding. I wasn’t buying it. Felt more like poor writing than believable characters. The previous episode of “character development” only made me dislike most of these characters more. Oh boohoo we shouldn’t do an experiment because it might not work! It worries me that there are people (the writers of this show) who might actually think this way. WOW!
You clearly don’t know how people under stress with the hive mind mentality are in fact pretty useless. We’ve fallen a king way from our pioneer days of badass survival where now instead of figuring shit out on our own through trial and error we simply rely on Google and YouTube tutorials. The majority of People are in fact useless and bring very little to the table other than existing/consuming resources and this town is a microcosm of that and it’s great to see it written in such a way.
I thought I was the only one skipping over useless scenes but some these characters really piss me off
It's called a cliffhanger dude...
This show is the same as Lost if Lost ended after 10 episodes. This show either needs better pacing or 15 more episodes lol.
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I think they only made about 3-4 episodes worth of story and then someone at the studio decided to spread that across an entire half season.
Who is the main character? Boyd? The family?
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im not sure ...and thats a problem
How is that a problem? A show doesn't need to have a clear main character. Who's the main character in Game of Thrones?
The family was, I thought. Maybe the writers realized nobody likes them much and Boyd is the better character (and actor). No idea. Just hoping they don't kill him off because he's basically carrying the show.
Sorry that LOST was too confusing for you :(
Personally didn't care for the finale. Wish they focused more on Boyd and the woods rather than the tower. There is a fatal flaw in the tower plan anyway which is anyone who comes to town is trapped so even if they got a signal, they don't know where they are to ask for help and even if someone came they would just be trapped.
The main focus of this episode should have been Boyd in the woods and whatever they found digging last episode with the tower being a minor focus and built offscreen and then we get the call.
I will say I was 100% okay with the slow burn of the first 9 episodes as it fit but episode 10 should have delivered something more meaningful on one of the 3 big storylines.
The radio doesn’t bother me, what bothers me is everyone acts like the radio is FOR SURE either their salvation OR it is the end of the freaking world and they will all fall apart mentally if it fails. Seriously...WHAT?? They are all so melodramatic about this damn radio tower, instead of viewing it as an experiment/stepping stone to learning the truth about where they are.
Also these tech geniuses built their controls OUTSIDE? Like I get that it adds some drama to the scene when it rains but clearly they had the ability to build it inside where they and the controls are safe from weather. Also their statement of "it's secure" when lifting the tower is such garbage, they didn't secure that thing for shit. It will absolutely have blown over come S2.
Exactly. It was bothering me how the wording used when talking about the radio tower working/not working was correlated with going/not going home in such a black & white manner. The main goal was an experiment to simply get a signal. Even if that works you still gotta figure out how do we ask for help, how do we say where we are, will rescuers just get stuck here also, etc. So simply powering and getting a signal on the radio tower doesn't just automatically lead to "we're going home" lol
The point is that if they can send a signal it might be able to be tracked by people on the outside. And if it's a short range signal it's going to be easier to find since they would only be talking to people close to them.
but anyone trying to come to help them would also get trapped , they have to find a way out not have someone come help . I wish they would have gave some type of answer to any of the plot in this finale tho
What about flying? If someone comes with a helicopter or a plane I imagine they could go up and see stuff. Ofc they can still be trapped but at least it would look cool to see how the town is reappearing all over again from the air.
Also if they are in the loop when going on the road why are they not when going through the forest? We see the black dude and the girl traveling for almost 2 days and nights and still not being in the loop, because they go through the forest instead. So yeah still so many questions we can't possibly know what would work and what wouldn't.
Legitimately not one single question the show raised was even remotely answered. This finale just threw even more mystery boxes on to the already towering pile.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't frustrated and disappointed having wasted all that time giving this show a chance after seeing some major red flags midway through the season.
Not a huge list, but they answered a few things:
Where the ghouls are during the day.
That, despite the continued question on source, the "electricity" is in deed electricity that they can harness and use for other purposes.
Whether the Boy in White speaks. He can do so telepathically.
If only children or those that came to this town as children can see / communicate with Boy in White. Sara both saw and heard him.
Yeah but, those are the least interesting and unimportant. All of those things you listed just lead to even more questions.
Why do they hide during the day? How do they come out of there? Why under that specific house? Why do the cords converge to their lair? Is there a lair under every house the cords go to?
What's generating the electricity? Why are the cords empty? How does it travel to lights? Why don't the outlets work if everything else does?
Who is the boy in white and why does he only "talk" to certain people? What is his motivation in telling people anything? Why did he trick Boyd?
Why would you want so much answered. Why even have more seasons if they’re just gonna answer everything in season 1. Its not a high budget show with big name actors. Its just a small show hardly anyone has heard of and for what it is, I think its pretty good and I look forward to what happens next season. People nowadays expecting so damn much with shows and movies I swear. Its not good enough that its watchable and leaves you with questions nah y’all out here needing everything hand fed to you. I bet you hated the leftovers too lol
Man I'm with you -- I really don't get why people want the entire story wrapped in one season. I would maybe agree that some 'writing devices' were a bit clunky when trying to prevent Jim/Jade/Viktor from having a big sit down but I don't mind looking past it since I enjoy the end product.
I feel like there was some huge development this episode but maybe not.
Victor said "they sleep underground" but he did NOT say who "they" were. Could be the monsters, could be the voices, could be the boy and white and his kind - whatever he is.
I clearly missed where the ghouls are during the day. When was that?
Victor says that the caves Tabitha fell into are "where they sleep".
I thought they would answer some questions, only for those answers to raise new questions
Isn't that how it normally works?
Like, I don't know... "The signal contacted someone who's coming to help, but that person is trapped in another deadly town, in the future!"
Or, "The monsters are former residents who ingested by toxins in the soil, and there's a well full of magical water that can cure them! But how do you get to the well before the spiders eat you?"
Or, "The hole in the basement leads to the roots of the teleporting trees, which could help people escape, but the mycorrhizal network needs to be recharged with the very talismans that protect people!"
I don't know, those are terrible ideas because I am not a writer. But there should have been some mystery solved, even if only to introduce another.
i was hoping for a giant spider in the tree which mind tricked people but no budget for that. My idea would be the further they go out the more deadly the nightmare monsters become. Almost like theyre gate keepers but theres better stuff further out so its a risk reward thing.
Idk but I really dislike idea of this becoming some epic fantasy show like LoTR of Witcher, keep monsters as humans it's more ominus and dark. Idk just my two cents.
Not while special effects are bad...and barely in the show. Way too much like lost smoke monster haha
Eitherway We need more regular threats which rhey actually fight. I'm stunned no one is weapon building and training under an army marine to be warriors.
Why haven't rhey trapped and tortured a monster for info!? Or used mud to make clay to make bricks to build walls and ditches when they have engineers and survival experts. They're all just waiting to be eaten like cattle and deserve it.
I get that many are families who just want to pretend it's all ok but what do rhey do all day!? No one is even making paper or tools lol it's crazy.
If they're doing human vampires they need to improve effects with less cgi and more practical effects. Or they should go with the fantasy nightmare monsters in the wood and the cgi won't matter if it's fun haha
Though i don't think we'll get anything we want as the story seems too week and it ended on a damp squib.
Right now we have so many questions with new ones popping every episode and zero answers. First it was a weird town you can't escape with monsters, then it's weird talismans, then it's halucinations, then it's some signs, then it's some spiders and spider web, then it's some hole under the house where they "sleep" , then it's some lighthouse etc.
It just keeps adding and adding forever lol.
I love this show but I know what you mean..what red flags did you notice ?
Fillers became longer, uninporant dialouge that contributes nothing. Characters acting unnatural to the situation like for example whenever someone is trying to experiment with a way to get them home in this case radio tower, almost everyone hates him/her and tries everything to stop them from even trying something beside just sitting oround playing house in a nightmare town.
In a realistic scenario, if people ended up stranded with freaking monsters that eat them at night, they would spend every precious second of daylight plotting a way out and they would cherish every little step someone takes to get them out of there. Nobody plays house in this scenario, nobody just go on with their lives lmao.
I don't remember which episode it was, but there was one that was 100% filler. Now filler episodes for shows that are like 6-10 seasons deep, while annoying (and I don't usually watch shows that stretch that long for this reason, among others) is expected.
But during your very first season that's only 10 episodes long and only time out at maybe 25-30mins a piece, after recap and opening credits? Huuuuuge red flag.
Then there is/was the dialogue. The main family's interactions with each other and everyone else was so random and would switch tone mid conversation out of nowhere. Like the time when Jade went to talk to Jim at his house and Jim freaked the fuck out on him outta nowhere and then on the porch was like like "oh but I trust you and we gotta go do this thing" total 180, gave me whiplash. There's other examples, but that's the sorta thing I'm taking about.
One of the few genuinely good actors with a script that sounded the most natural dies off (father khatri). But that's just personal preference.
Every episode ending with more questions and zero answers. I can give a show some patience, but at some point you gotta acknowledge a pattern and realize that is how it's gonna be instead of deluding yourself stuff is coming. Which, shocker, nothing changed.
There was no setup for individual character arcs or group dynamic evolution. You might get a whiney exchange between characters, but nothing fundamentally changes about how they act as an outcome and character revelations don't seem to really matter or explain their personalities.
There's other stuff, but these were some of my main gripes.
I dunno. When Father throw that candy bar and yelled it was a little too high school play performance for me.
And why was the candy bar from like the 1930s?
Yeah this is all relative. Is his performance good relative to actors in other shows? Uhh, no, not by a long shot.
Is it good/better in comparison to Jim and Kenny? Absolutely.
am i fucking tripping or was that not a finale? good episode but hows that a finale? theyre going to fuck this show, arent they? i cant believe this shit.
It's like we're missing a couple of episodes.
I mean they must have in plan for like 6 or 7 seasons already, gotta milk it right?
Probably budget reasons or they were told early on they were going to be renewed and were either motivated, or decided to, stretch out the story across multiple seasons in order to push for more subscribers on the epix platform. Same reason many similar, multi season shows fizzle out story wise - conflicting business interests.
Haven't read other comments yet.
After watching the episode overall I liked it, then I realized this is the season finale not the midpoint of the season and just starting to wrap things up. Leaving a season even if they knew they were getting renewed like this feels lazy and unpleasant. The only long term question I had that got answered is when will they bring back Victor. If this was cancelled after this I wouldn't be surprised.
Agreed. This is lazy mystery-box writing at this point and I'd be surprised to learn if they actually have any semblance of a plan. It's not 2004, the lack of any meaningful answers is a trope known enough to avoid.
The whole thing felt like "Lost" to me. The acting, dialogue, story etc. Things just happen and compound into completely unexplainable randomness then it ends until next season where we potentially open up a whole bunch more unexplainable stuff. I still enjoyed it though!
I wish there was a little more explanation of when characters let the monsters in. There was only one time where it wasn't just "hey random character #32 opened a window because... they're an idiot/lonely/idiot/suicidal/idiot?" Who the fuck even was the guy who let the girl into colony house? Why did that monster actually spend time kissing him? Does she still have a bit of memory of when she was human? I thought some of that would have been explained.
It's a good question, why does she kiss him? My thought was that it displays a level of sentience and cruelty about these creatures. So in order to demonstrate that, they had to have a "red shirt" get killed. Hopefully you know what a redshirt is lol
The monsters like torturing as much as killing, what better way for a monster to get off that lonely guy kill than right after elevating his hope for love.
Ikr, nobody even tried to talk about it. Like it's not that important.
Well writing and acting in this show has been meh at best it's only the mystery that is keeping me watching at this point. Can't care less about if anyone dies or not I just wanna know why is everything happening.
That why I love the TV show Dark it answered a good amount of questions each season. By the time the final season drop it answered all questions leaving you satisfied.
Wow i never heard of dark but I'm so excited to start watching it. It got 8.8 on IMDB. Awesome, thanks for bringing it up ! :)
Yup, every time a show does this, where they don't really answer anything they just keep opening up new mysteries, it ends up going downhill hard.
Yeah. The showrunners are probably screening forums like this.
If so, fuck you. You know you should be doing better than this.
They know damn well that the writing and acting of this show are subpar so the only thing keeping people watching would be the mystery and secrets. If they gave those up so quickly you wouldn't be watching.
What’s the best way to get a season 2? Build mystery to the point that people demand a season 2 for answers.
This is absolutely not how that works at all. They just kept piling on more mysteries and multiple character cliffhangers. It's very disappointing for a season and its finale. This is how you get a show cancelled. People will tell people not to watch because it looks like the writers have no idea where they are going with anything. Way better shows with far more payoff have been cancelled for less.
The budget on this show is probably pretty low besides some CGI, so that will be the strongest reason it gets renewed.
If you want people coming back for more, you have to actually answer some of the many questions they have opened. Not bait people into a 2nd season with no guarantee it will even have one.
It needs one strong underlying story arc that everyone in the town can relate to, this would allow those moments of filler to be relevant and have a concrete foundation within the main story. Perhaps they all have something in common that gets teased out slowly as the characters interact during those moments of emotional connection that the show is trying for. Smaller mysteries need to appear and be resolved along side the main arc while also driving the story a conclusion of the main story arc. This would allow the audience to get small amounts of pay off and provide clues to the overall mystery of the place.