From’s rumination on the immaterial bonds between its characters has turned into dire calls to action before certain death. Between Fatima’s current situation to Victor’s realization about Jasper, the plot progressed at various speeds. Jade, along with the Matthews family, is somewhere in the middle: asking big picture questions while making little progress.
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The family at the center of From, the Matthews clan, is given the most screen time in this episode after Fatima. The Matthews house was awfully empty considering Tabitha, Jim and Ethan were with Jade tracing her dream, while latchkey kid Julie was hanging out with Randall, so she wouldn’t be alone. Unrelated to the Matthews (until later), Jade finds Henry in the bar and offers him a drink.
Incorrectly, Jim keeps fighting against Tabitha’s nightmare claims. The time for doubt has passed when you have been having conversations with your dead son on a phone that isn’t connected to anything. Jim gets a wake-up call from Henry who compares Jim to how he treated his own wife.
Most of the attacks on this family have been psychological, so it stands to reason they were aimed to divide. Julie, meanwhile, returns to the archway she and Randall found last week with Ethan in tow. With encouragement from Ethan, Julie steps through the archway and is sent to a familiar place. In a time bending twist, it is revealed that Julie was the one who threw Boyd the rope he used to escape from the chimney at the end of last season.
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Speaking of twists, Victor learns why he hasn’t been able to get Jasper to talk to him like it did with Christopher. We see in a flashback that Victor misremembered who Christopher was actually talking to, and it wasn’t a ventriloquist dummy at all but the boy in white clothes who has been haunting Tabitha.
Victor goes on to tell Sara and Tabitha that the Boy explained to Christopher that the monsters were connected to the children Tabitha saw in the tower. This talk has me excited to see what could’ve happened to these children to cause the monsters.
Fatima also has me excited about these last episodes. The town is quickly getting steamed up after Fatima murdered Tillie. Donna quickly uncovers Boyd and Ellis’ attempts at covering up the murder, leading to a speech that hits close to home. The truth of what happened will have to take a backseat in these final episodes, though.
Elgin, who has been haunted by an emaciated ghost (possibly Fatima from the future?), is told by a Polaroid camera that he needs to kidnap Fatima and place her in a hidden room where the episode ends… and Lorne Michaels thought his experiences with Polaroid were bad.
The town is at various “Thresholds”, making the episode title all the more apt. These final two episodes will determine which characters will have the willpower and intelligence to survive their individual threshold to get to next season.
New episodes of From air Sundays on MGM+.
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