Is anyone watching From?

  • 🔧 Actively working on site again.
i just watched the entire thing off your recommendation.
i thought it was fantastic but they should probably wrap it up this season before it gets too stale
my favourite character was randall. His immediate questioning of the situation was handled really well, when given the idea that the entire thing was a government conspiracy. His first thoughts to start questioning those who initially came forth as leaders made total sense and was really proactive. normally in shows like this, characters like him would be nothing but a hinderance, but the first thing randall did when arriving in town was to risk his life to save jims wife without knowing anything, his first instinct being to save people whenever he can,

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I like Randall a lot. I think he just got released from prison before he ended up in the town and that's why he's abrasive and touchy about his possessions. I have a feeling he's going to end up dying trying to save someone.
I think it might end up being 5 seasons. I'm not 100% sure, but I think I read somewhere one of the creators said that.
 
He's honestly not the worst part of the show, it's a bit confusing, I'd thought the main family was meant to be the main cast, as we technically can relate the most to them, but they pretty much become literal "who's" and he's not doing a bad job at keeping me somewhat invested.


It's honestly very hard to tell what and where they are going, my only speculation, that to a certain degree I hope is what is happening, is that it's simply just a specific location that was pulled into another universe, animals and a small town included, trapped in a dome-like state, maybe because something unfathomable just wanted to be entertained, I like and rarely use his art so pretty much something like this:
View attachment 6464751
This is why the drama is getting to me a bit, I don't want and give a shit about the inter-personal relationship between the family and the sheriff, the lesbian couple or the son and the woman he knocked up, although it can be well-used if put into the context of where they are and if the kid will be affected, but I sadly doubt that - It's not bad and it's had good moments, but all I genuinely wanted was for them to one day look out into the woods, see this:

View attachment 6464752
And then try to find some way of surviving it, whilst trying to find a way out, repeating until they do, let the story board get creative - What about you?

I think the whole thing is a game between two entities. Good vs evil. The good one has the boy in white to guide people towards the good way out, and the evil one has the voices that Sarah heard. The good one gets to provide things like the talismans, utilities etc and the bad one has the monsters. I think there's two ways out. You can help start the massacre, or you can save the creepy looking kids.
I think that's why they were stopped when Tabitha started digging and when they built the radio tower. Those actions aren't appropriate options for the game so they had to be stopped.
Might be a little too simplistic, I don't know. I've never watched a show like this before so I'm probably not great at figuring them out!
 
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I like Randall a lot. I think he just got released from prison before he ended up in the town and that's why he's abrasive and touchy about his possessions. I have a feeling he's going to end up dying trying to save someone.
I think it might end up being 5 seasons. I'm not 100% sure, but I think I read somewhere one of the creators said that.
thanks for recommending it, i started watching lost aswell but i dont know if its as good yet,
i agree randall will probably die trying to save someone to complete his arc. I hope they do more with him as the government conspiracy episode was one of the best
 
thanks for recommending it, i started watching lost aswell but i dont know if its as good yet,
i agree randall will probably die trying to save someone to complete his arc. I hope they do more with him as the government conspiracy episode was one of the best

I never watched Lost, but I heard the ending was disappointing so I'm not sure I want to put all that time in. These are some other shows I've seen mentioned as being something like From. I read the wayward pines books, but I've never watched any of these so I don't know in what ways they're like From.

Midnight Mass
Night sky
Castle rock
The Leftovers
Wayward Pines
Severance
Outer range
Yellowjackets
Haven
 
The Outer Range got cancelled recently, so probably not worth an investment.
Castle Rock is only good if you really, really like Stephen King's books, as its full of Easter eggs and references, but it was just average.
Yellowjackets was only good in the first season, it's bogged down even worse than Lost for loose ends and weird pointless storylines.
Severance was great, and season 2 is out soon, but the gap between was quite long so I may have to rewatch it.
Midnight Mass is probably my favourite of that list, I went in with low expectations and was blown away. Amazing, unsettling buildup, and a tragic, dark ending. Probably the best of Mike Flanagans Netflix series.
I haven't watched the others to have opinions of them.
 
The Outer Range got cancelled recently, so probably not worth an investment.

First season is really good, and was written to be a limited series, not a real ongoing thing. Second season they changed the writers and showrunners to all women and it's the biggest, dumbest pile of shit ever.

Also From looked too niggery so I never bothered.
 
I watched the first season and... it was okay.

I watched the second season, but I admit I was mostly hate-watching it after the first episode or two.

I'm really not sure I want to go back.
 
  • Informative
Reactions: Vecr
First season is really good, and was written to be a limited series, not a real ongoing thing. Second season they changed the writers and showrunners to all women and it's the biggest, dumbest pile of shit ever.

Also From looked too niggery so I never bothered.
Third season is way better than the second so far, but unfortunately they haven't toned down the "make the white characters ridiculously stupid/mean/vulgar".
 
  • Agree
Reactions: Chunky Salsa
im really glad randall didnt fucking die in this recent episode, the creatures goals are beyond our understanding.
it was a really nice nod to sam hyde having the first thing the female cop does when entering the town is shoot a civilian lol
 
Last edited:
Forgot this even existed. First season was mostly pretty good, I don't even remember WTF happened in S2, and after watching the first 4 episodes of S3 I'm now rooting for the monsters, which at this point are more likeable than most of the NPCs. I know there's supposedly a quote from the showrunners where they pinky promise it's not going to be Lost 2, but they keep throwing more seemingly random shit in, so the conclusion would have to be either really convoluted ("oh, the plot is actually a Dark City ripoff, but the aliens are time-travelling humans from the alternate future where SCP is real"), or really retarded ("it's purgatory lol"). Probably both.
 
Forgot this even existed. First season was mostly pretty good, I don't even remember WTF happened in S2, and after watching the first 4 episodes of S3 I'm now rooting for the monsters, which at this point are more likeable than most of the NPCs. I know there's supposedly a quote from the showrunners where they pinky promise it's not going to be Lost 2, but they keep throwing more seemingly random shit in, so the conclusion would have to be either really convoluted ("oh, the plot is actually a Dark City ripoff, but the aliens are time-travelling humans from the alternate future where SCP is real"), or really retarded ("it's purgatory lol"). Probably both.
idk lost was WAY slower than from and was more of a survival character show. A large present of lost is told in flash backs. from to me is being told at a good speed. something interesting happens every episode unlike lost it seems where big reveal only seem to happen at the end of each season
 




 
Last edited:
  • Horrifying
Reactions: Rudy Coleman
Just finished a short (8 episodes) series that started a few weeks back called Teacup.
Tbh was much better than From has been after 3 seasons now. It set up it's mysteries, solved them, and also had very good moments of body horror and drama/violence. Each episode (barring two of them) was only half an hour or so long, so it didn't take much time to watch, and very rarely dragged on, once it got going it didn't stop much.
It was probably so much smoother due to having been adapted from a book, so the creators didn't have to keep making stuff up as they went along.
It does end on a set up for a season 2, but it managed to resolve pretty much all of its plot threads before that point.
 
Done with Season 2.

Season 1 was good.

Season 2 was a slog. I think it's mostly filler to make people care for the main characters. It doesn't work. A lot of pointless drama. Plot armor is obvious. Does this thing where character does, but it was just a dream...

Stuff goes on but... They left all the action for last episode.

I'm worried the later episodes might cheapem the earlier ones, which is a possibility for these kinds of shows...
 
My schizo idea is that it’s an allegory for the prison planet theory of Earth. Lots of things align with that like being trapped in a place with no escape, being harvested for your emotions and the reincarnation storyline. Lots of other throwaway scenes also fit. If you wanna get real schizo the monsters sacrificing their children also fits with theories about the elites raping and torturing children and babies as a way to harvest loosh for the interdimensional parasites.
 
Last edited:
Back