“Broken Windows, Open Doors”

“Into the Woods”

“Oh, the Places We’ll Go”

Okay, so From really made me feel like LOST with these three episodes that ended season one.

I ended the first season on Netflix today, and the build was tense and suspenseful. As I said, I could feel the ghost of LOST in the episodes. The show had always had a DNA of LOST, particularly with Harold Perrineau as the lead.

But these episodes had the following:

• The idea of building the tower on top of Colony House and having the town join in to help build it gave me vibes of the raft from the end of season one.
• Jade suddenly gave me Sawyer thoughts, especially with the nicknames and the bad attitude.
• The surprising and mysterious voice on the radio who knew Jim’s name at the end made me think of the Others, particularly Mr. Friendly.
• Tabitha digging the hole in her basement and finding a room made me remember the Hatch and Victor was playing the role of Desmond here.
• The voices tell Sara that the land was angry, making it feel alive like the Island from LOST.
• We even had a flashback to see what had happened to Boyd’s wife.

Boyd and Sara in the woods is some scary stuff, and I am curious where that tree took Boyd and what happened to Sara.

The sweet proposal by Ellis to Fatima was a nice moment, though that makes me more worried for them. I just feel as if the happiness is not necessarily something that will last in this town.

Speaking of great scenes, this is the first time that I did not want to kill Jade. When he went back for his rolling paper, he came across Tian-Chen Liu and they have a beautiful exchange.

Great performance in this group of episodes by Elizabeth Saunders as Dona. Her reaction to the death of Eric and the idea of the tower and the signal to the outside was powerful. Her taking the axe to the floor of the Colony House was a shocking moment.

This was a mysterious first season that provided us with a ton of unexplained riddles going on in this town and the surrounding woods. The characters are fun and I get the feeling that no one is safe.