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From S1 E8, E9, E10

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“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.

From S1 E5, E6, E7

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“Silhouettes”

“Book 74”

“All Good Things”

Holy crap.

Seven episodes into this first season and so much has gone down.

The mysteries of the town are loading up. I feel like I need to start writing on the walls.

For a couple of episodes I wondered why they dropped the plot point of Victor digging the graves as he was doing at the end of episode 4. Boy, did they pay that one off.

Strange things going on. How can there be electricity in these houses without cords with wires in them? What a weird detail. Plus, does digging a giant hole in your basement lead to that answer?

I never guessed that Father Rudra Khatri would be killed this quickly in the series considering he seemed to be a vital role.

Sarah, Victor and Jade feel different from others in the town. They all have some kind of contact or delusions happening to them… way more than anyone else. Jade is such a douchebag so far though that I wish it were anyone else but him. However, I do believe that he is a vital piece to this puzzle.

Where do these monsters come from at night. They seem to be just normal people, who turn deadly. I was yelling at Kevin as he was letting the girl in to make out with. That dumb f**k deserved what he got, but, because of his stupidity, a bunch of others got killed as well. He did not deserve the good name of ‘Kevin.’

Then, as if Boyd does not have enough troubles, Parkinson’s Disease? Geez.

I am curious about who these people were that they wound up stuck in this town. I wonder if we will eventually get flashbacks to them prior getting trapped in this place.

This absolutely reminds me of an amalgam of LOST and The Walking Dead. From has been tense and scary as well as thoroughly riveting.

From S1 E4

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“A Rock and a Farway”

Weird stuff going on in this town.

So we discovered that all of the people from the town were driving from places all over the nation. Obviously, this is some kind of magical place. Maybe they all wind up going into some kind of dimension or something of the like.

There are also trees that apparently can teleport people or items to different locations. Victor showed Ethan how it worked with a rock with a smiley face on it.

Victor and Ethan have some issues too… or at least with Ethan’s father, Jim, who is angry with Victor’s attention to Ethan.

The end of the episode showed Victor digging graves outside of the Colony House. That was very creepy.

We learned that Jim and Tabitha were planning on getting a divorce after this trip. Julie knew about it and she confronted Tabitha about it. Julie seemed to be bonding with the Colony House patorns.

Boyd was dealing with his guilt over sending Frank to the box. Father Khatri confronted Boyd about the leadership role in the town. Frank lashed out at Khatri about his role in the decision to send Frank to the box.

Lots of stuff going on in From and it is a wild rides so far. I am involved with the show.

From S1 E3

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“Choosing Day”

Emotions are on high as the new arrivals have to choose where they live in a process called Choosing Ceremony.

Jade, who finally awoke, thought this whole town was a set-up by Toby as a complex “escape room” type situation. He was acting extremely obnoxious about everything since he did not believe the story of the town to be true. When he was shown Toby’s body, he finally came around to the reality of the situation.

Meanwhile, the Matthews family chose to live in Town… except for Julie, who throws a huge curveball and states that she wants to live at Colony House. The surprise move upset her family, but the rules were once picked, you do not change.

Speaking of rules, we learn about the Box, which was constructed by Sheriff Boyd to punish those whose choices lead to the death of someone in the community. They had never had to use the Box before, but Frank’s negligence led to the death of his wife and daughter, and he was to go into the Box that night.

Boyd was having a deep, moral question if the Box was a fair thing to do. He even tried to get Frank to leave, to go to a cabin on the outskirts of town with a totem. Frank refused to do so and he wound up in the Box and is killed by the monsters.

I am very curious about what these nightly creatures are and where they come from. I am hoping that this is a mystery that the show will delve into with more detail as the seasons move on. I do not just want to accept it as a way of life in the town.

Why can no one leave the town? That is another fascinating mystery that I hope the creators of From have an answer to and it is not just a plot element to make the show work.

From S1 E1, E2

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“Long Day’s Journey Into Night”

“The Way Things Are Now”

I have a soft spot for mysterious small town/location with some kind of enigmatic strangeness. Twin Peaks, Eerie, Indiana, LOST, Picket Fences, Widow’s Bay… and now you can add one more to the list.

From.

I have heard about this show for quite awhile now. It starred Harold Perrineau, who was, of course, on LOST as Michael Dawson, and the show had that eerie, weird feel immediately.

In these premiere two episodes, we get introduced to the fact that no one can be out past dark because of some kind of creatures that are all kinds of bad news. The little girl in the cold open of episode one paid the price for opening that window. A bloody, bloody price.

Lots of mysterious rules that we are told and see in action right off the bat. Not very many answers. Just how I like it.

Harold Perrineau is Sheriff Boyd Stevens and he has been clearly going through this for some time now. We see him trying to help people immediately.

There is a family driving into the town in their RV, after being redirected by a tree that was blocking the road. Apparently, once you are in this area, you do not leave. Again, reminded me of LOST with the people who could never leave the island.

The family is involved in a wreck with their RV, putting them all in danger. Little boy gets impaled in the leg by a table leg. That means he can’t be moved and darkness was coming.

There is a loaded cast and it will take some time for me to be able to identify which character is which. However, the show did a good job of showing me Boyd, his son Ellis, the Matthews family, and Donna. Donna’s story about her sister was tragic. The rest of the group will be people I am sure I will get to know over the next four seasons.

From is now on Netflix, while it is also on MGM + on Prime.