Reviewer Rating: 4/5.0
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We’ve reached that stage of the FROM season where you can tell the end is near.
But unlike previous seasons, it doesn’t seem like we’re setting out to do something huge. There was no town-wide experiment, and the town wasn’t overrun with cicadas, sending some townspeople into horrific comas.
Instead, this season is now dominated by just a lot of personal stories, and episodes three through seven are all about furthering those stories and getting us closer to the finish line.
In many ways, FROM Season 3 is different than the seasons we’re used to. But maybe just because it prepares us for the end.
They’ve been working on certain stories all season, and it feels like we’re heading toward the climax of those stories, but they’re keeping a lot of things separate.
Everyone has their own thing with minimal overlap.
For example, Victor has been steadfast in his pursuit of Jasper ever since he and Sarah entered Sarah’s basement, and he remembers what happened to everyone before they died.
This storyline is independent of everything else because no one knows what he’s doing except Henry and Sarah.
Now that he has Jasper, the next step is to get him to talk, which drives him a little crazy because he can’t have the doll start spitting out everything he knows.
That creepy doll will eventually talk, as is the case from the outside, but it’s easy to see from the outside why Henry would be worried about Victor insisting on getting there.
Victor and Henry’s relationship remains fragile and complicated, as the two men have only memories of each other for years. But their circumstances and long separation have clearly transformed them into people the other cannot fully recognize.
Victor does not recognize his father because he is in this state. Henry grieved his family for years without getting any answers and he had to continue living a life different from the one he wanted.
Henry wants to find his family, but he never can, and now that he has a second chance with his surviving son, he’s struggling. I think that’s okay.
Henry had a fleeting thought of wishing he had never come there because it would be easier when he thought Victor was dead, but it was only a fleeting thought.
That doesn’t make him evil or scary. It is a human emotion that quietly arises in a complex mixture of indescribable pain and joy.
I think one thing that got lost in the reunion was Henry having to come to terms with the fact that his wife and daughter died in that place. On top of that, he must also feel a huge amount of guilt that he wasn’t there to protect any of them.
It’s hard to know how you would feel or react if you were in his shoes, but so far he’s doing his best, even if it’s obvious he doesn’t understand what’s going on.
I love that he drinks with Donna and she just listens to him. Donna was the kind of person who always had something to say, but it wasn’t necessary at that moment because he just had to sit and accept his disappointment.
I guess Henry and Victor will finally let Jasper talk, which will do wonders for bridging some of the distance between them.
Before Donna takes on the role of bartender for Henry’s patron, she and Boyd almost have a bit of a falling out over Ellis and Fatima, which has become one of the funniest storylines of the second half of the season.
Finding out she didn’t have the baby in the sixth episode of season three didn’t stop Fatima from believing it was true. This sparked numerous discussions about whether Fatima was crazy.
I admit that when I found out that Fatima was not pregnant, my first reaction was not to think that she had lost her grip on reality, because it was obvious that something was wrong with her body.
Seemingly overnight, everything changes for her, and when she’s alone, like when her whole stomach caves in and she screams in agony, we see something is happening.
There is something evil in her belly. It may not be a baby, but it’s something.
I know those around her are not trying to ignore her pain and her statement, but they are scared for her. However, one of the frustrating things in that small town was that when people told them something strange and unnatural was going on, they looked at each other as if there was something wrong with them.
Nothing about that town makes sense, but there’s something about it that makes everyone clutch their pearls and look around each other like that person just said the craziest thing they’ve ever heard.
Nothing that happens to the people in that place should be dismissed as an illusion. I know there’s evidence of people losing their minds out there and that’s really concerning, but it can’t be a preset thought every time someone feels something or says something nonsense.
They have seen so much and experienced so much that sometimes they cannot help but believe what others say.
Fatima’s condition continues to deteriorate in this episode, and the debilitating rage is pretty much the worst part, as she comes off as insufferable and so different from the woman we know.
Ellis tried his best, but really struggled, knowing he wasn’t going to be a father and knowing Fatima’s state. You can tell he immediately thinks back to what happened to Abby.
He was sitting in the front row while his father was not, and the hug between father and son felt like so long ago, but maybe Ellis wasn’t ready for it.
Although he and Boyd have moved on, there may still be some residual pain from that period where he felt like his father let their family down by not being there when Abby needed him most.
In his efforts to save them all, he failed to save a single person.
Now, Ellis finds himself in what he believes is the same situation, and he’s understandably struggling to cope with it. He could have started by listening to Fatima, and he did, but he seemed to have already decided what was going to happen.
So he tried to steal antipsychotic drugs.
The demon baby theory may no longer be plausible, at least not in the traditional sense, but it could still have a role to play. If Fatima feels something inside her, then I believe it.
Maybe this is something artificial ultrasound can’t see. That place didn’t make any sense, why not just let an invisible demonic baby suck the life out of her?
why not?
Fatima’s rage was about to explode, but even the realization of the outcome made me gasp loudly.
We’ve seen some shocking deaths on this show, and while Tilly wasn’t a Skywalker-esque death, her death was still surprising because of how it happened.
Fatima’s rage manifests itself when she picks up some tulle and stabs Tilly in the chest, something no one could have predicted. Perhaps most important of all was Fatima herself.
A lot of people are skeptical about Tilly, but she talks about her own death a lot, which should give us an idea of what’s to come. But more often than not, we think deaths in this show have to do with monsters, when in fact, we’ve seen a few examples of people killing people.
So, what happens next? Ellis won’t give up on Fatima, but will they eventually run from the shack and hope no one sees them? Did they confess to Boyd? What do they do?
More importantly, what should Fatima do? Sarah may be back now, but after everything that’s happened, the town wants her gone, so how do they feel about that?
Donna is ready to get her and Ellis out of the Colonial House, so what will she think when she finds out that Fatima now has a death toll?
There is a lot to think about now and what is going to happen to the town as a whole because something is happening in Fatima.
Boyd’s always busy job only got busier in this situation, but at the same time he was dealing with Officer Acosta. Who does she think she is?
I have a feeling she’s going to spark a power struggle as the town’s “real” police officer. Even if you agree with her stance upon arrival, which is not to sit back and “accept” things as they are, you have to admit that she’s starting from a very naive place.
She had never seen anything they had seen, and had never experienced anything they had experienced. She resonates with Jim by believing that she is better than others and wants to be a savior. See what happened to Jim?
It may have been an accident, but she had killed someone. Why does she carry a gun? How does this help anyone? She saw with her own eyes that the gun had no effect on the monster at all, and she currently posed no threat to the town.
We’ve seen Boyd draw his weapon numerous times in various situations, but having people walking around with guns doesn’t help at all. Especially someone like Acosta, who has shown that under pressure she will shoot first and ask questions later.
Acosta may get to the point where having weapons would be helpful and she can work with everyone instead of firmly against them. But it feels different than it does now.
She looked at the town with pity and contempt, as if she were Neo from The Matrix, the chosen one who would solve all problems.
It would be funny if she wasn’t so annoying.
Elsewhere, there are three separate storylines: Jim, Tabitha, Ethan and Jed in the woods looking at a dream place, and Elgin’s Polaroid camera in the cellar door of a colonial house in the woods Pictured inside, Julie and Randall bonded randomly while walking together.
None of this provides much information outside of Elgin, who discovers a secret door in a cellar (after some curious knocking) and ends up walking into a room with a corpse inside, It looked like it had been there for a hundred years.
He turned to look at the kimonoed woman and whispered ominously: “Is this really where the accident happened?”
What happens where?
There were a lot of us in the woods. Donna and Henry drink. Fatima killed people. Acosta cheated
Night is coming.
unresolved issues
- Many people have mentioned that the things that attack cabins at night for food are different than monsters. This will definitely return in the final three episodes.
- Jim second-guessed Tabitha every time. Can’t he? Why is Jade more supportive of Tabitha than her own husband?
- I hope Bhakta reopens the restaurant. It was always seen as a comfortable place.
It’s another slower-paced hour, but that’s not always a bad thing. Although the intensity of the season has diminished, the weather has remained dismal and there is still plenty to look forward to in the final hours.
Let me know what you think about this in the comments!
You can watch FROM on Sundays at 9/8c on MGM+.
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