FROM Season 3 - TV Series Review

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Griffin, J & Pinkner, J & Bender, J. FROM. (2022-present). Epix. Link to Image.

“You said this place couldn’t break you. That’s what you said. Let’s see.”
Cowboy Creature, “Shatter”, From

The third season of the television series From delivers a major character death, terrific acting performances, answers to some of the series' biggest mysteries, and introduces Robert Joy, Samantha Brown and Douglas E. Hughes to the cast. This article will contain spoilers.

In the season premiere “Shatter” Tabitha wakes up in the real world to find herself in a hospital in Camden, Maine. She sneaks out of the hospital and goes to a house in the suburbs where she meets a man named Henry Kavanaugh (Robert Joy) who turns out to be Victor’s (Scott McCord) father. Back in the town, tenses are rising among the residents due to a food shortage. Boyd Stevens (Harold Perrineau) tries to calm everyone down and convince them that they’ll figure something out. The monsters come out that night and free the farm animals from their stalls to lure people outside. Boyd and Tian-Chen (Elizabeth Moy) work together to help get some of the animals into the barn. After they get inside they realize that the whole thing was an ambush. Boyd is tied to a chair and is forced to watch them torture Tian-Chen to death.


Griffin, J & Pinkner, J & Bender, J. FROM. (2022-present). Epix. Link to YouTube.

Elizabeth Moy and Harold Perrineau both give amazing performances in "Shatter." They were both so good in Tian-Chen’s death scene that I found it difficult to watch because it was very graphic and upsetting. On my second re-watch of the episode, I skipped Tian-Chen’s death completely because I felt like I couldn’t stomach watching it again. In the next episode “When We Go” Jade finds Tian-Chen’s mutilated corpse and Boyd handcuffed to a post inside the barn with his head bowed and tears staining his face. Jade sets him free and Boyd lets out a howl of grief and picks up Tian-Chen’s body and cradles her in her arms. Harold Perrineau’s acting in this scene blew me away. His anguish was so powerful it brought me to tears. I hope he wins an award for his performance because he really deserves it.

I really enjoyed Tabitha Matthew’s (Catalina Sandino Moreno) plotline this season. In the episode “When We Go” Henry tells Tabitha about Victor’s mother Miranda (Sarah Booth) and how she had hallucinations about the Town long before she found herself trapped there and painted portraits of what she saw. In the episode “There and Back Again” Tabitha and Henry arrive in the Town in the back of an Ambulance with police officer Dani Acosta (Samantha Brown) and two paramedics. I thought that the decision to introduce Victor’s father to the show was fascinating. Henry’s storyline of the grieving father who lost his wife and children forty years ago was very interesting. I loved the little crumbs of back story that we got about Miranda and her connection to the Town and the supernatural forces that exist there.


Griffin, J & Pinkner, J & Bender, J. FROM. (2022-present). Epix. Link to YouTube.

In the episode “The Light of Day” Victor reacts in alarm when he is told that his father has turned up in the Town. He avoids him at first because he doesn’t know what to say to him after spending forty years apart. When the two of them finally reunite Victor breaks down sobbing in his arms and tells him that he didn’t know how to get home. This scene was so beautifully shot. Robert Joy and Scott McCord’s acting was superb. It was really interesting watching Henry and Victor reconnect in season three. Henry’s joy at finding out his son is alive quickly turns to concern when he sees how being trapped in the Town has changed Victor as a person. The arrival of his father and the perilous situation unfolding in the town pushes Victor to an emotional breakdown. He starts reliving painful memories of the past and convinces himself that he is responsible for his mother and sister’s deaths. Scott McCord is such an excellent actor. He really disappears into the role of Victor. He deserves to win an award for his performance.

I felt sorry for Samantha Brown’s character Dani Acosta. There was a lot of negative backlash to her character online. Acosta makes a lot of mistakes the night she arrives in the Town with Henry and Tabitha. She didn’t believe Tabitha’s warnings about the dangers of being outside after dark and then panicked and fired her weapons at the creatures which caused the death of an innocent woman watching from a window inside Colony House. The townspeople hate her after this and reject her efforts to make up for her mistakes and become a useful member of the Town. I felt bad for Acosta. She turned up after dark and panicked and got someone killed. Anyone could have made that mistake. The only person who tries to answer her questions and shows her any kindness after her arrival is Kenny. The decision to introduce a cop to the Town was such a good idea. I think the show is setting up Acosta to become a villain who will stand in direct opposition to Boyd and how he runs things.

I really disliked Jim Matthews (Eion Bailey) his season. He’s been my least favourite character since the show premiered. He’s always been sceptical, sarcastic, arrogant, and overprotective of his wife Tabitha and their children Julie (Hannah Cheramy) and Ethan (Simon Webster). In season three he becomes even more unlikeable. He is such a terrible father. When Tabitha is missing and presumed dead, he struggles to care for his children on his own. He loses his temper with Ethan, he barely spends any time with them, cares little about their emotional well-being, leaves them home alone, and forces Julie to take on a surrogate mother role to Ethan. He is so bad at being a parent Julie calls him out on his negligence and so does Tabitha once she returns to the Town. One of my favourite scenes in season three is when Jim verbally attacks Jade (David Alpay) in front of Henry for spending time with Tabitha. After Jade walks out of the room in disgust, Henry turns to Jim and asks him if he can give him some advice. He tells him “Did it ever occur to you, the next time you’re talking with your wife, you should shut the fuck up and listen?” Robert Joy delivered this line with the perfect amount of sarcasm and dry wit. It was so satisfying to see Jim be put in his place.

I really liked the direction that From went in season three. We got some interesting new characters, the plot moved forward, there were some deaths, we got some answers to questions, and some much-needed back story for the characters and the Town. I can't wait to watch season four when it drops in 2026.

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