re: FROM (series MGM+/Amazon) Watch this F’ng show people! *Now season 2 thread*

The wires leading to nowhere, building the antenna, lighthouse, torture room tower, and talismans all give me LOST vibes.

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both are sort of mysterious

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This.

They're complaining that there are too many mysteries, and that there hasn't been a payoff yet. I agree to an extent, I think the show could use with at least some resolution on these mysteries by now. But to be completely shocked that the rabbit hole has gone this deep is confusing to me. That was exactly what happened in Lost.

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I will finish this season because I’m to invested at this point but this show is bad.

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Agree. I only started watching thanks to this thread. There is just too much subpar acting and characters who are annoying. Jim’s wife and daughter, Ellis and Fatima, and Kenny are all terrible characters played by terrible actors. Boyd is subpar.

Oh look, Fatima won’t talk to Kristi and tell her what’s going on.

Ellis is already better? He was stabbed and on the verge of death like 3 hours ago, and now he's ready to start lugging a body around.

Seems like the simple solution to the dead Smiley is to do what you need to do during the day and put the body outside at night. Or even better just do it all in the back yard.

Finally we revisit the Victor and the trees shite. That was one of the more interesting things for me in S1. I hope there ends up being something to that and it pans out into something significant.

Oh look, Jade doesn’t want to tell Tabitha that he’s seen ghosts too. When he found her in the woods he should’ve been like “oh, you saw a bunch of ghost kids? Cool. I’ve seen civil war soldiers and some other weird shite. Let’s figure out what that means.” And Jim never told Tabitha that Jade had acted weird in the tree and apparently seen some shite too. Shocker.

Why would you not at least strap the damn Smiley body down?

Bile? I wonder where that will go or if it will do anything. Would be hilarious if they made some sort of solution from it and ran around at night hunting with water guns or some shite.

Oh look, Elgin tells Julie that Boyd killed Smiley, and the first thing out of his mouth is "You can't tell anyone, not even your parents."

I know that thing trying to drown Elgin at the end was supposed to be scary, but the noise she made cracked me the hell up.

I agree that the acting is subpar on this show, but it doesn't bother me near as much as some of y'all.

I absolutely love this show, but the whole "not sharing information" thing is getting on my fricking nerves big time. It's completely contrived at this point, and feels like stalling. That being said, at least SOME people are beginning to talk and finally share information (Jade/Tabitha, Elgin/Julie, etc.).

I'm surprised that some people are bailing on the show...I've felt like this season has been really good and things finally started progressing.

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I had to remove myself from the show's subreddit. It's mostly theories that are all over the place. It was fun to read the different theories at first until it became very overwhelming.

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Were they legit theories, or were people posting spoilers that they read and pretended to "theorize" based on that?

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The best part were the people that point out the background stuff that I always miss.

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Like what? I always feel like I miss out on background shite.

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Given that this has been addressed in each of the two seasons now, I'm sure it is something important. Not sure why they'd come back to it (and in another seaason, at that) if it didn't meant something.

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Let's dip into the trees thing and what we know.

I plan on doing a rewatch either before the finale this season or after it's over. But from what I remember about the trees, Victor was saying that they have moved, or are moving or some shite like that, right? And then this week he's pacing off distances from the house to the trees again, and also telling that little annoying frick Ethan that the leaves are falling and insinuating that they don't usually fall? I assume he means that there basically aren't normal seasons in this place, so the leaves falling signifies something important? Victor looks like he's what, in his 50s at least? And we know he's been there since he was 8-10 or so. So him noticing some sort of "fall" certainly seems significant.

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The preview for the next episode makes it seem like they're going to dip the bullets in it? Not sure how that would work practically, but I'll suspend disbelief for anything at this point.

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I guess that could work.

The "my blood is your blood" thing was weird since when they opened up Smiley he had zero blood inside of him. IIRC< when Boyd slices Smiley's neck last week it was red, i.e. blood. So was the body drained by the other monsters? Or did it just shrivel up and dry on its own? Curious.

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That bus guy's comment to Jim about there being people in Fromville who are "in" on the whole thing stuck with me. Especially when Elgin said something about almost remembering something really important, just to be drowning minutes later while trying to relax in the bathtub. Who told him to do that? Julie. I wonder if she is one of the townsfolk who is "in" on the entire thing, and suggested that to him knowing the White Walker woman would drown him before he could remember the important memory.

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Yeah, it was Julie, but I would be absolutely shocked if she was in on anything. Especially since she arrived in S1E1 with her family. I agree that the "insiders" comment was critical though, and that it makes sense that if the town is being watched then someone on the inside is likely in on things.

However, I don't know if I buy the "experiment" angle just yet. Because there is far too much supernatural shite going on IMO for that to be legit. Now, if it's some off the wall shite like aliens, it could still work. But I have a feeling that's the big question of the series, and we won't have that answered until it's over/almost over (and I'm good with that).

I do wonder if Elgin is "special" in some way, or if he is just being affected like some of the others are (Tabitha, Jade, little frick Ethan).

By the way, random complaint: I can't stand that we have an Ethan, an Ellis, and an Elgin. Makes it difficult to remember names and keep the straight. I fault the writers for that stupid shite.

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Me too. Things are finally starting to move and people are jumping ship now? To each their own I guess.

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Agreed. Although I love the show and am in for the long haul. So as long as there is a single other person in these threads discussing it with me, I'm all in.

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I plan on doing a rewatch either before the finale this season or after it's over. But from what I remember about the trees, Victor was saying that they have moved, or are moving or some shite like that, right? And then this week he's pacing off distances from the house to the trees again, and also telling that little annoying frick Ethan that the leaves are falling and insinuating that they don't usually fall? I assume he means that there basically aren't normal seasons in this place, so the leaves falling signifies something important? Victor looks like he's what, in his 50s at least? And we know he's been there since he was 8-10 or so. So him noticing some sort of "fall" certainly seems significant.

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Very significant if it's never happened before. I don't know what's up with the trees moving, unless the encroaching of the forest makes it harder for them to defend themselves against the monsters. Or maybe the trees encroaching will cause roots to cramp the monsters tunnels and make it harder for them to exist down there? I have no idea.

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The "my blood is your blood" thing was weird since when they opened up Smiley he had zero blood inside of him. IIRC< when Boyd slices Smiley's neck last week it was red, i.e. blood. So was the body drained by the other monsters? Or did it just shrivel up and dry on its own? Curious.

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I thought I saw red as well, so I was confused by this. Maybe the monster reverts to its "undead" self and turns to a decrepit corpse once the worms are introduced? Whereas, while its human-ish, maybe it had blood pulsing inside? No clue.

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Yeah, it was Julie, but I would be absolutely shocked if she was in on anything. Especially since she arrived in S1E1 with her family. I agree that the "insiders" comment was critical though, and that it makes sense that if the town is being watched then someone on the inside is likely in on things.

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Yeah it probably isn't her. I just found it weird that she mentioned that to him right after he says he was supposed to remember something so important. Like someone was trying to prevent him from doing that.

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However, I don't know if I buy the "experiment" angle just yet. Because there is far too much supernatural shite going on IMO for that to be legit. Now, if it's some off the wall shite like aliens, it could still work. But I have a feeling that's the big question of the series, and we won't have that answered until it's over/almost over (and I'm good with that).

I do wonder if Elgin is "special" in some way, or if he is just being affected like some of the others are (Tabitha, Jade, little frick Ethan).

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I don't think its an experiment either. Seems too straightforward. I guess it could be some "game" in which the townsfolk-AI are so advanced that they have become sentient. Then the townsperson who is "in" would be the player themselves. We've seen that done in Westworld though, and TBF that is also a disappointing reveal, IMO. Just not that creative.

Elgin is for sure special. His premonitions seem to mirror Victor. Maybe he is somehow the "new" Victor, since Victor is getting old?

Yes, the three E names are confusing AF.

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So as long as there is a single other person in these threads discussing it with me, I'm all in.

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I got you, fam. I'm not going anywhere. Too hooked by the mystery to stop watching at this point, regardless of the annoying things.

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Stuff like further examinations of background drawings, throwbacks to prior episodes, symbols, etc.

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Still working through season 1 but I feel like people who do this give shows WAY too much credit. If this was a Kubrick or Nolan movie? Yeah, ok. But this show has already proven to be kind of loose in the writers room. I’d have a hard time believing in every single Easter egg as anything more than a superfluous prop. Feels like the same trap a lot of people fell into with Lost; sometimes weird background stuff is just in service of aesthetic and tone and not beholden to the advancement of plot.

I just want to know about this Cromenockle


/half kidding