Reviewer Rating: 4/5.0
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Even a slow hour of FROM can be a fulfilling experience.
Season three to episode six is definitely on the slower side.
The town is still a little uneasy due to Dale’s death and the fallout from the past few days, and you’d think this would be a day of self-reflection and de-stressing, but days like these rarely seem to exist in a small town like this.
The Matthews family enter the small town on the verge of collapse, but their time in the small town seems to connect their family in ways they never imagined as everything suddenly becomes bigger than them.
Their grief, sorrow, and pain are forced to take a back seat when their survival instincts kick in and they must find a way to survive this nightmare together as a unit.
When you’re scared and just trying to get through the day, you don’t have as much time to think about trivial matters.
But with the passage of time and the impact of various circumstances, the four of them changed again, and many old wounds seeped out again.
Tabitha’s journey to Henry and back makes her re-examine herself, and you can’t entirely blame her.
Whether or not you agree with her choices when “outed,” you should acknowledge that she was treated harshly and that she did the best she could with the limited options she faced.
Hindsight is always 20/20, and it’s easy to criticize from the outside in, even leaving Tabitha feeling disappointed in herself.
She feels like she’s capable of something, but she’s not. So now she’s burdened with what-ifs and guilt about what might have happened if she’d made a different set of decisions.
Thinking this way is futile and will only bring you more pain, but it’s human nature. It’s a sentiment that would trouble anyone in her position.
I’m Jim’s biggest critic because I find him insufferable 90% of the time, but he’s just trying to help her in this situation. It’s not helpful to follow someone when they’ve done enough on their own.
But sometimes people don’t want you to tell them they didn’t screw up. They want you to be realistic about them.
Tabitha wants his honesty, but she might also want to argue. Their argument escalates into something nasty, because while they bonded before going to town and rediscovered some of what they’d lost in their marriage, they didn’t actually resolve anything.
These issues simply mask larger issues.
Most likely, Jim will come back from his forage and they will apologize, but this will be an ongoing cycle for the Matthews family, who really don’t have the time, space, or power to fix it all right now.
They should also focus all their efforts on Julie and Ethan, who both have their own struggles.
They dealt with their parents’ problems outside the city, while in the city they didn’t have to deal with constant pain, emotional turmoil, and the threat of death on top of hearing their parents’ late-night screaming matches.
Ethan may seem to have it all together more than Julie, but he has his own issues to deal with. He was devastated by Tianchen’s death, and I’m not sure anyone really realized that.
It’s becoming increasingly clear to Julie that whatever she, Randall, and Marielle went through had a considerable impact on them, even if they dealt with it differently.
Mariel ignores this, Julie tries to stop everything, and Randall acknowledges it but doesn’t know what to do next.
The three of them should consider sitting down and talking. I know it’s not what people in that town like to do, but it might be worth it to express your emotions with the only person in your life who understands what you’re going through.
There’s something to be said for making that connection with others.
Randall isn’t my favorite guy, by any means, but hearing his vulnerability in that conversation with Marielle was the first time I felt like Randall was more than just a loud-mouthed contrarian.
It saddened me to hear him say out loud that he was scared to ride the bus alone every night – ok! That’s it. The kindness Mariel showed him was a very sweet moment for two very broken and scared people.
A lot was going on for Randall, and the restless sleep during recovery nearly left him exhausted. I fully expected him to wake up and immediately go after Boyd.
While a conversation/confrontation is coming, he just seems tired now. He couldn’t pretend to be like Mariel, and he certainly didn’t want to spend another night alone, lost in his thoughts and pain when there were other options.
Christy’s reaction to Randall joining the clinic should be interesting to watch. However, she and Mariel must deal with Fatima’s non-pregnancy diagnosis before dealing with their new roommates.
People have been speculating about Fatima and her demonic baby all season long, but how many of you guessed that Fatima was never actually pregnant? What does that mean if there’s no baby inside her?
That place doesn’t make any sense, right? So when you think about it, no theory is too weird. But if we believe there is no child and she is not pregnant, then we have to consider that something else is going on with her body.
If the baby doesn’t crave blood and spoiled food, the next logical conclusion is that she does. Her body suddenly needed it to survive.
If you come to this conclusion, the next logical question is why? Why Fatima? What happened to make her suddenly become like this?
I don’t think anyone has the answers to these questions right now, but as much as it pains me to say that if there are no demon babies, then maybe, simply put, Tabitha is the demon.
We haven’t yet figured out why these monsters are there, or how they came to be that way. It’s not like The Walking Dead, where those killed by monsters are resurrected as they are.
As far as we know, these monsters just exist and there’s no explanation. But in the spirit of change, what if Smiley’s death in Season 2, Episode 6 caused some sort of ripple effect?
Is this the first time we see a monster killed? And maybe it destroyed the balance of that place, so now the town is slowly turning one of them into a monster to replace it.
This theory may exist, and there may be plenty of facts to disprove it, but it’s not the wackiest theory out there (if it is, let me live in my fantasy, friends!).
Regardless of the final outcome, Fatima’s body is changing. And it doesn’t get better. Now that they know they don’t have children, what choice do they have but to wait and see what happens next?
No medical textbook can tell them what to do next or how to cure any disease.
This is probably one of the scariest storylines out of all the crazy scary things we’ve seen on this show.
Is it still scary? Victor and Henry travel in those tunnels.
Henry seems like a kind man, but there are so many times I want to tell him to shut up! Victor asked his father to be quiet countless times, but he kept talking!
But other than that, it’s nice to see Henry wanting to go with Victor, even if he doesn’t know what he’s getting into.
It will be interesting to see how their relationship develops here since there is so much love that never stops. But after being separated for so long, they are already different people.
Plus, you add the surreal reality of their current environment, which creates subtle and complex dynamics that they have to deal with.
When Victor starts talking about Jasper and the importance of his story, you see some complications, but to Henry, all he sees is a ventriloquist dummy.
Victor believes Jasper is the key to something, but Henry doesn’t fully understand, although he certainly wants to support his son.
When I spoke with Scott McCord about the father-son dynamic, he gave such great insight into what we might see happen, and we get a good taste of the new iteration of their relationship here.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the cliffhanger, it’s not the jaw-dropping story we’re used to, but it should spawn a lot of new theories.
It is no coincidence that Tabitha arrives in Camden, Maine and meets Henry. When she discovers what she has done to Miranda, she realizes that Miranda had seen and connected with the town long before she got there.
Maybe understanding Miranda will also help unlock some of Tabitha’s memories. It’s hard to believe that seeing this painting in a bar suddenly reminded Tubbys of this incident.
I guess that trip to Maine, seeing everything Miranda painted and making connections, helped open Tabitha’s mind the same way Victor opened it through storytelling.
So, Tabitha now remembers the nightmares she had as a child about the lake area. What?
There is a more important connection between Tabitha and Victor’s family. I believe it more and more because the connection between them is so close.
But what is this connection? God, if I knew that now.
unresolved issues
- Someone has needed to hug Donna all season, and I’m glad Tabitha took the opportunity. She carries so much, and like Boyd, she has so little time or space to feel it all. Sometimes, a little comfort can help with weight loss.
- Poor Kenny acted brave, but I’m glad he did something for himself and chose to go to Colonial House. I don’t know how he’ll fit in there, but a change of scenery would be in his best interest right now.
- Tom, the dead bartender, seems to be telling Jed to sober up and start thinking like the person he was before his life was changed forever. He was not wrong.
- Elgin remains the purest soul out there. Taking these photos is an admirable attempt to bring some sense of normalcy to the chaos. But the kimono woman didn’t want to let him go! How can she help? Elgin had to figure out what she wanted.
- Boyd’s expression upon learning of Fatima’s desire is priceless. It took a lot to silence Boyd.
We’re about to enter the final stretch of season three and it feels like we may have made some progress, but we’re also in the same spot we were at the start of the season.
Or you might feel differently.
Let me know what you think of the latest developments in the comments!
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