FROM Season 4 Episode 10 Review: ‘If A Tree Falls In The Forest…’

(Warning: Major spoilers for FROM Season 4 Episode 10 “If A Tree Falls In The Forest…” ahead.)

Some hours of television feel impossible to review because there’s not much to discuss. This is, to put it mildly, not a problem I’ve ever had with FROM. Instead, it’s an extremely difficult—and even more rewarding—series to cover, thanks to its embarrassment of riches. Yes, that phrase is a bit of a cliche. No, it’s not at all inappropriate in this case.

From its emotional, character-driven story of people ripped out of their reality and forced into a living nightmare they can’t escape, to the great mystery of why and how, to—yes, obviously—the spooky sh**, and everything in between, every single episode of FROM is just packed with interesting plot points, emotional performances, and all sorts of technical elements that demand attention. So, choosing what to spend a finite amount of time and energy breaking down tends to be increasingly difficult with each new hour. I say all of this because FROM Season 4 Episode 10 has got to be the most relentless, devastating, anxiety-inducing, heartbreaking, episode yet.

When, at the end of Episode 8, the Man in Yellow warned Tabitha she might be “about to unleash a type of suffering you can’t even begin to imagine,” it turns out that “you” wasn’t just her. It was us, too. Well. No, the Big Bad wasn’t exactly lying to Tabitha. Furthermore, the series’ creative team, through their most diabolical character, wasn’t exactly lying to the audience. Even knowing what this series is capable of, in terms of breaking both the onscreen residents of FROMville and those of us following their journeys, I’d say the only twist or trick there is that the warning was nowhere near strong enough.

After watching this season finale more than once and being kinda wrecked by it every time—while enjoying every second—I won’t say I’m at all surprised that it’s this good, or that Fatima transforms, or even that Elgin…does not survive his foolish decision to show that picture to “Sophia.” And yet, FROM Season 4 Episode 10 still manages to deliver one shock to the system after another. Whether it’s something actually unexpected or not, each new development in Jade and Tabitha’s frantic rush to dig up those bones, escape the tunnels, and…do whatever the next step is…is an opportunity for another gut punch. The pacing is relentless. The action only seems to slow when it’s time to make something painful hurt as much as possible for as long as possible. And then, it’s right back to that breathless rush.

Picking up exactly where this season’s penultimate episode left off, with Jade and Tabitha cornered by the Creatures as the plan to dig up those bones becomes as dangerous Boyd always feared it would, the hour takes us on a journey. This place, whatever it is, has many more nightmares in store for the people trapped in it. Darkness falls mid-day. The ground shakes, upending everything. (And downing the clinic’s talisman so Smiley can come visit, um, his mommy.) Boyd’s team rushes back to town to escape the Creatures, leaving Jade and Tabitha for dead in tunnels that have suddenly changed, blocking their way out. Ultimately, they maybe have a chance because Acosta, of all people, doesn’t want to give up now and convinces Boyd to go back. But the cost is one more loss for Ellis and Boyd’s family.

So much more happens, including what has got to be one of the most difficult to watch, tragic TV deaths I’ve seen. And I’ve seen quite a lot of TV, so when I say what happens to Marielle in this hour wrecked me, that is saying a lot. Then, there’s Henry almost pulling that trigger on Victor…but being interrupted when Ethan, thankfully, shows up and distracts him. Speaking of Ethan: When his mom doesn’t come back from the tunnels, his reaction, and Julie’s promise that they’ll take care of each other in response, showcases the type of work from Simon Webster and Hannah Cheramy that demands attention and reminds us of how well cast—both in terms of talent and that sibling dynamic—both actors are.

The hour ends with Sophia smirking her way through dumping all the talismans into a faraway tree as she condescendingly compliments the Boy in White’s optimism. As she steals the one thing that kept people safe from the Creatures’ attacks, it’s hard to even consider the thought of winning. How can that be possible now? And what would even “winning” look like after so much loss?

At this point, the possibilities for the final season are endless. And yet, so is the possibility of despair. Obviously, that’s felt most deeply by those characters who lose loved ones in this season finale—whether to death or something much darker. Overall, though, maybe everyone should’ve listened to Victor and his friend. Because in retrospect, pulling out the tree seems to have also ripped away the only thing keeping the worst things at the bottom of Pandora’s Box from coming out. Besides, if the children “poured their hope into the roots that made the symbol, and those roots became the tree,” maybe ripping that tree out by those very same roots uprooted all hope itself. Talk about a scary thought.

Or maybe not. We’ll find out next season. For now, let’s try to break down some highlights—and realize that’s impossible before we even start.

MORE: The Season 3 finale cracked the series’ mythology wide open…and FROM Season 4 Episode 10 has done that all over again.

Sophia offers Elgin a bargain

As we’ve been hearing all season, “knowledge comes at a cost.” For Elgin, the cost of learning that the Man in Yellow can turn into people—like Sophia—who died in FROMville is becoming one of the people who dies in FROMville. The only living person who knows about Elgin’s death is Clara. Because she’s doing the Man in Yellow’s bidding, it’s unlikely she’ll tell anyone what happened in the diner. Additionally, we don’t see whatever she does to get rid of Elgin’s body. So, as a viewer, I’m looking forward to those FROM Season 5 cast lists to see if Nathan D. Simmons makes another appearance. Since we don’t quite know what’s necessary for the entity to make those kinds of transformations (aside from clothing, apparently), and because there are only 10 episodes left (unfair), who knows?

Until we hear otherwise, let’s treat this as the actual end of Elgin’s story. In Season 3, he was willing to hold Fatima hostage and bring her blood to drink because he was sure she and her baby were key to helping everyone go home. It’s a true credit to both Simmons and the writing that, despite how much I did not care what happened to him at that point, Elgin’s FROM Season 4 Episode 10 demise actually just…hurts. Before we get there, we know how afraid he is. That’s a pretty big difference from him believing the Kimono Woman was helping him last season.

There’s something about the image of Elgin with his missing eye, warily side-eyeing Sophia with his good eye, that’s so pitiful. As he sits there, turned a certain way so that he’s simultaneously willing himself to shrink into the booth—making himself as small as possible—and angled in a way that he maybe could get out and leave, it’s obvious he’s trapped. There’s no way out. And he knows it. But with the Big Bad’s back turned, he still tries…only for Clara to block him. There’s this awful moment of betrayal, a tense, slow sort of standoff. And then, Sophia turns around, gloats that there’s nowhere for him to hide…and forces him into the back area.

I won’t necessarily call it redemption, but given that something or someone here tricked Elgin before—or, for all we know, the tragedy will be that Fatima giving birth and then transforming will be the key to sending everyone home…while “everyone” can never include Elgin—his refusal to accept Sophia’s bargain, even as he stands there knowing he’s well and truly F**ked, is…growth? A good contrast to what we see with Clara? Lesson learned? Something positive, if not any of those things. The choices Simmons makes—the pitiful little looks, the slight way he curls in on himself, the slowwww, tentative way Elgin finally gives in and gives the monster his hands—all ramp up both the angst and the dramatic tension leading to the moment.

After everything, FROM Season 4 Episode 10 makes it easy to remember the Elgin we first met. He had that weird dream and freaked out as our very first introduction to the character, sure. But all along, he was a sweet kid who was just trying to go see his grandmother. Just in time for his awful, lonely, gruesome death all that innocence finds its way back. So does Elgin’s faith, as he cries out to his God until he can’t anymore. Until the pain’s so unbearable, it’s just those awful, awful noises. The whole time, Sophia’s just relishing playing with her food (so to speak—not like he’s, say, Tabitha/Miranda). And then, he crumples to his knees, that head going to the side just so…before the sun rises again.

Obviously, prayers were never going to work here. If they did, Father Khatri would still be alive. So would the pastor “Sophia” crashed into town with. And the Man in Yellow probably wouldn’t be able to pray while masquerading as the innocent little church girl. So, Elgin having that faith of his until the very end is kinda foolish. But it’s also brave and shows that he really, really believed. That makes his arc take on a whole new level of tragedy, in a way. Regardless of viewers’ opinions on the religious aspects of the character, or even all the ways he messed up, those are some painful final moments—both for Elgin and for anyone having to watch him go down like that.

MORE: In FROM Season 4 Episode 3, Elgin admitted to Fatima he wasn’t sure if he deserved to be fine after what he did.

“Will you kiss me goodbye?”

When Smiley comes to the clinic in FROM Season 4 Episode 10, Fatima’s immediate reaction to sensing him—completely cutting herself off mid-argument with Marielle, then just repeating the word “no” over and over, horrified—is a strong moment from Pegah Ghafoori. (But Ghafoori saves her best for last. That “remember who I was” closer toward the end of the hour is a killer.)

When tragedy strikes, it’s Mari, not the Creature’s “Mother”—a name Jamie McGuire turns into something utterly creepy—who gets ripped apart. It’s not quite her nightmare from earlier in the series (no boiler room, no Boyd…), but some part of Marielle knew this thing was going to get her, eventually. Which means she may have also been right that “they’re all still here,” meaning the people who die in FROMville never leave…and that makes her final moments even more difficult to process.

This season finale features so many remarkable performances and so many important moments, but what Kaelen Ohm and Chloe Van Landschoot do with Marielle’s death and Kristi’s reaction to it is on another level. The awful expression on Ohm’s face when Smiley first rips Mari’s abdomen wide open, the way she crumples to the floor, her terrified reaction to that noise that’s just come out of Fatima—that’s all just stunning. Then, when she asks “where’s Kristi” in that fading, thready voice and collapses before the scene cuts to Kristi and Ellis on the way back to the clinic, watching Smiley stroll away…the situation may be nearly as bad as it gets, but the quality of work just keeps getting better.

The bloody scene that greets Kristi mere seconds later, stopping her short in the doorway, is one of those unforgettable sorts of images that go beyond a horror series just throwing in buckets of blood for the sake of more gore. The image stays with you. This is the worst case scenario, not simply another death among far too many in this terrible place. And as Mari apologizes (pain), and Kristi begs her to stay with her, and both women grieve Marielle’s death before she’s actually dead, FROM Season 4 Episode 10 goes from all those quick cuts between scenes—Boyd and Company rushing to escape the woods, Jade and Tabitha stuck in those tunnels, and everything else—to lingering here.

They sob together, Kristi not afraid to get down on the floor in all that blood with the person she lost by getting trapped here, then found again when she arrived—improbably, impossibly—on that bus. And Marielle begs, with her last breaths, for that kiss. Again, I have to point out how phenomenal Chloe Van Landschoot and Kaelen Ohm are here. The love and sadness just twist and turn, blending in a way that where one ends and the other begins becomes completely indistinguishable. Mari fades away, Kristi hesitates in agony before leaning in, and there is so much love down there in the ugly, bloody mess. The way Kristi cradles Mari’s body, and the repeated “I love you” sounds more horrible and cried out with each repetition. Just endlessly remarkable, truly.

And then, we leave them for a while, only to return after the sun’s come up. Now, we see Kristi, drowning in her grief, through Boyd’s eyes. Here, it’s all Van Landschoot with those glassy eyes, that faraway, broken look that somehow fills with more tears even as we see how drained, exhausted, and cried-out Kristi is. She’s never left that bloody spot on the floor. Never left that body. And as she tries to say something (“I love,” I think?) and Boyd rushes to her and holds on tight, she finally snaps out of that awful traumatized detachment. And wails.

Boyd’s reaction to all of this is as strong as anything Harold Perrineau has ever delivered, but he knows how and when to be the leading man who lets his cast mates shine. And, well. That’s what happens here. Just as Boyd tries to be a pillar of strength at a time when he knows there’s nothing he can say or do, when the world is literally being ripped apart all around him, Perrineau actually is very strong support for Van Landschoot here. And it’s just…so good.

Everyone involved in this ugly and terrible part of FROM Season 4 Episode 10 does a beautiful, beautiful job. Basically, rather than continue to try to be eloquent here, let’s just say this part of this finale and everyone involved in creating it is too f***ing good.

MORE: Pretty sure we’re going to have nightmares about this one, just like we did after watching Boyd plead with Tian Chen to stay strong while the monsters ripped her apart.

…but what about Jade, Tabitha, and the bones?

As if all the reincarnations weren’t proof enough, Jade and Tabitha are the prime example of “don’t give up.” Throughout FROM Season 4 Episode 10, there are several places where they have no business surviving. But they do—somehow, they endure. Together.

Early on, Jade has kind of a “romantic hero, sacrificing his life” moment when he urges Tabitha to go up that rope ladder and leave him there to slow the monsters down so she and the bones can get to safety. To say I continue to be a fan of David Alpay in this role continues to be an understatement. The open, nakedly-honest way Jade admits to Tabitha that he lied about the bones protecting them—but had to in order to get Boyd to approve the plan—is lovely in a way it probably shouldn’t be. (Like, dude. You lied?! With this much at stake?!!!)

And then, there’s this: “You know, I’m glad it was you. If I had to spend all those lifetimes with anyone…I’m glad it was you.” Alpay lets the emotional drama of the moment speak for himself. Instead of going over the top, the line reading is just…sincere. There are truths, and then there are laws of the universe. For Jade, this one’s a law. So, no need to embellish—because he’s saying the simplest, most obvious thing.

Just saying, I would 100% volunteer to go retrieve bones and get chased through dark and changing tunnels full of monsters with this guy. Which, to repeat myself yet again on this: Talk about character development! This guy is unrecognizable from the total jerk I would’ve gladly fed to the Creatures back in Season 1.

As Tabitha continues to beg for Jade to go with her, and up above ground, the tree starts to give, FROM Season 4 Episode 10 heightens every bit of anticipation and suspense with all those quick cuts back and forth. Yes, it’s similar to what happened at the end of the penultimate episode. But…it’s also more. This is drama at its finest—even in the earliest parts of the hour, even long before all the worst things happen—as the Creatures break through that flimsy plastic barrier, and the tree gives way, shaking the world, and that beam of light opens up with the ladder dropping down. For the briefest, most precious, couple ofs seconds, it seems like Jade and Tabitha might both get out fairly easily.

But. Well.

Then, Sophia’s little weak point in the ladder does its job. Tabitha falls back into the tunnel. Jade does everything he can to put his body between her and the monsters (my heart!), and all H**L breaks loose up above and below. When they try to go out the way they came in and are met by a dead end, the world shakes and reforms itself again. Alpay does such a compelling job of ramping up the sense of danger, of Jade’s frantic and futile attempts at protecting Tabitha from as much of it as possible. Every hand in front of her, every time Jade shields Tabitha from falling rocks or falls, scrambling backwards away from the combination of the approaching monsters and the rubble, Alpay just throws himself into it.

Later, when we revisit these two characters, it’s Tabitha’s turn to be strong. Jade looks like he’s giving up. He begins to apologize, grieving his way through all the regrets of having failed again. But Tabitha promises him they’re “not dying here.” And she comes up with the idea to dig under the bars blocking them from the outside…but not before she gives him her own emotional thank you for being willing to die to let her get to safety with the bones.

But Catalina Sandino Moreno has her best moment of this finale when Tabitha finds the skull of their daughter. Yes, I love hearing Jade’s lullaby from Season 3 with such clarity and…sadness, I’ll call it, down there in the hopeless dark. But it’s Moreno’s profound reaction as Tabitha pauses there that really sells the moment. The gorgeous, haunting score just elevates it.

Later, when Boyd, Ellis, and Fatima find them and rush to get Jade and Tabitha out, the monsters begin to approach. Now, Fatima makes the same kind of sacrifice Jade was willing to make earlier. Or…a similar one, at least. She stays behind, with one agonizingly emotional “remember who I was” as a goodbye, before fully transforming into one of them. It’s like one family has to totally crumble for another to have a shot at survival. Ellis has to lose Fatima, and Boyd has to pull his heartbroken son back from trying to stay with her, just so Tabitha can maybe return to her living children—and free the ones that have been crying out for so long in the process.

We don’t know if all four will make it back above ground; we don’t know if anyone, including Jade and Tabitha, survives this latest plan. That’s a Season 5 question. But if this FROM Season 4 finale tells us anything, it’s that anything good comes at a great and terrible price.

MORE: With as many broken people and families as this finale has given us, we’re more worried than ever that Jade will get killed by other people in town, just like he saw during his trip.

More FROM Season 4 Episode 10 reactions

• Harold Perrineau knows how to pace back and forth in a way that makes me feel like I’m as anxious as Boyd is. Maybe even more, honestly.
• Even the shot of just how quickly their hands are moving to collect the bones adds extra tension. Insane work.
• “What’s Plan B if we can’t pull the tree out?” …the panting from the rush on Boyd before he sharply turns back to Kristi with that “there is no Plan B.” Again, Perrineau knows how to physically perform in a way that makes the words land 10 times harder. For every great line reading and every emotional expression, the physical work he does is always even better. Which is saying something, considering how good everything else he does is!
• Every single note of this score tells a story and makes this cold open. The tempo changes alone…and then the dissonance.
• “If Boyd realized it wasn’t safe, he would’ve scrubbed the whole thing. I couldn’t let that happen.” “Godd—it, Jade.” “Finish this. We need to break this F—king cycle. You go up the rope ladder…”
• “Look. Your children deserve to go home.” Kill me now. How is this only the beginning????
• “You know, I’m glad it was you. If I had to spend all those lifetimes with anyone…I’m glad it was you.” Yes, I already said how good this was up above. No, I’m not over it.
• “It’s nice, all of us being together again.” Uh…huh.
• You know when Tabitha starts climbing that ladder and it takes as long as it does, with the score doing that and the visuals showing how long that climb is, that something bad’s about to happen. Even if someone forgets what “Sophia” did to the ladder, you know.
• Mannnnnn, the light going out, and Boyd in front of his people, and everything.
• Speaking of great physical acting: Scott McCord. McCord just throws himself back and forth in that cell, as Victor covers those ears, and panics like never before, and begs to be let out and screams.
• Such cool camera work in FROM Season 4 Episode 10. One of my favorite moments is when Boyd looks down into the tunnel for Jade and Tabitha, and the camera looks back up from the perspective of if they’d still been where Boyd left them.
• Absolutely wild. So many people are in these scenes of the tree crew scrambling to get back to safety, and they’re all performing the sh** out of that urgency and fear to get going so they’re not out in the open and exposed to the monsters. But Perrineau is like the center point, completely impossible to look away from him.
• Small potatoes compared to that clinic scene, but the closeup of Chloe Van Landschoot on “if we don’t leave now, we’re gonna lose everybody” shows every single ounce of fear Kristi’s feeling, right alongside her totally willing Boyd to listen to her and move.
• The overhead lights in the van: Cool detail.
• Same goes for the way we get the different perspectives from inside—the front seat people looking back and seeing Patty lose it while Boyd goes off on her, the backseat people looking forward and seeing/hearing what’s going on up there with Bakta and Sara and Acosta…all of it. We’re on the ride with them! And it’s scary.
• This would be spooky AF in a horror genre way if I weren’t just terrified for all my people in general, huh.
• The flashlights! In the tunnels!
• Trina Corkum is the total definition of “crashing out” with Patty in this van.
• “THE F**K IS WRONG WITH YOU?!! HUH???”
• Things that would be great comedy in literally any other situation: Ghafoori’s “the F—, girl???” expression before Fatima asks Marielle how she’s so calm.
• “How are you so calm?” “I’m not. Ok? But right now, it is our job to hold our sh** together.” Super from Ohm here, too. She looks exhausted; she looks like she can’t fight all the things she’s been holding in anymore. But, more than anything, she looks desperate to get Fatima to chill. Very much like any other “normal” medical professional in a time of crisis.
• Whatever you do, don’t think about “hold our sh** together” in the context of her trying to hold her own insides in, though.
• It’s like he just rips her open out of nowhere???
• “Stay away from me.”
• Fatima looks almost as wrecked by all of this as I feel. ALMOST.
• “I don’t want to go.” Oh, ok. We’re giving me a Tenth Doctor throwback in the middle of all this suffering. Thanks. I hate it.
• “It’s a chance to go home. To leave all of this behind you. Just like I did for Clara. Pretty soon, this would all feel like a bad dream that fades a little more with each passing day. And all you would have to do is help me.” WTFever, girl.
• “It’s because we’re getting close to the end. It gets verrrrry messy at the end. I’m trying to spare you from that.” And I have a bridge to sell you, Elgin.
• SIGH. “You people and your prayers.”
• Julia Doyle has been so good at, like, “scary AF in the guise of sweet and innocent” all season, and FROM Season 4 Episode 10 is no different. So, I say this with all the appreciation possible for what Doyle has done here: Can someone please see through this evil b**ch already???
• That last death noise and the way we have to linger on that dripping blood, though. Ouch.
• “Oh, look. The sun’s back.” TO HIS CORPSE.
• Also need someone to figure Clara out. Girl, bye.
• “What happens next?” “Now, I light the match. And I watch it burn.” That evil AF smirk gets me every time.
• Check out the play of too-bright light and dark shadow on Henry in the scene where he finds the bullets. Gorgeous…and instructive. Notice how it gets darker when he finds those bullets and remembers Vision Victor told him this place would provide what he needs.
• “This can’t be real…how can this be real?” I ask myself this every time I read or watch the news.
• Are we going to get more Randall next season? Because what AJ Simmons does, just sitting outside clinic, deserves more.
• That slow way Perrineau opens the door, coupled with the wordless communication between Boyd and Kristi that seems to last a lifetime, sets up every bit of brilliance from Perrineau and Van Landschoot that comes after. I can’t stress enough how great this is. Pretty effin’ bad, emotionally, sure. But so good.
• Just…beyond. The two of them.
• The way they breathe? Him laying his head against her forehead? The strength of that hold…good God.
• More sudden darkness and that red lightning? Sure. Why not?
• This is worse than opening the Hellmouth in Buffy huh.
• “…the f*** did we do?” A question.
• Julie on that porch, daring to hope when that van shows up…and then the instant disappointment. Super from Cheramy.
• “Where’s Tabitha?” Really interesting idea to only show Donna’s reaction—that instant grim look and outpouring of sympathy for the kids that Elizabeth Saunders portrays here is excellent—and not let viewers hear what Acosta has to say.
• Just the way Saunders sighs, lowers those shoulders, and collects herself as Donna prepares to now take care of those kids: Ouch.
• Oh, Ethan. My heart.
• Julie just willing him to believe her, so emotional on that “you and me, we’re gonna take care of each other” while she’s holding both sides of his face. His tiny “…how?” The pause, Cheramy’s expression with those tears welling and her eyes widening before the hushed, “…I don’t know.”
• Everything hurts, and I’m dying.
• “We just made the sssssun go down! We f***ing tore a hole in the godd**n sky with lightning! Who the F— even knows what that means! So, what are we supposed to do that could possibly make anything better? We lost three people today…” The gestures during all this! Harold Perrineau, folks.
• But about those three people…
• “What you did back there, what you were willing to do…I just wanted to say thank you.” “Well, you know what they say. Women and children first.” Really good timing from Alpay and Sandino Moreno here. That wait for Tabitha to, like, not let Jade get away with shrugging it off is super.
• “You’re welcome.” Her grim nod and failed attempt at a smile here…
• Oh, we’re so on the Jaditha ship now, huh.
• So quiet and slow taking that body out. Gets me with every death on this series.
• Kristi is barely able to stand but still going with? Ouch.
• “Anything you need, do you understand me?”
• “Nothing like that ever happened before.” Confirmation that this cycle’s different? Or…???
• The Henry/Victor scene in FROM Season 4 Episode 10 is another total heartbreaker. Just…poor Victor. He’s beating himself up over how he “ruined it” by showing his dad the picture of the Man in Yellow, just agonizing over it, all as Henry’s preparing to murder him for an idealized version of him that isn’t real.
• “You were different before. You were happy. We…dragged the bed in here so that we could be roommates. And then I, I told you about the Man in Yellow…I showed you that picture, and I…I ruined it.” Just an unbearable amount of emotion from McCord here.
• I wonder, with the way Robert Joy plays the scene, if Henry would’ve been able to pull that trigger. Not sure if my guess of no is accurate, or if I just need it to be? But he’s so gentle with the way he tells Victor it’s not real, and the urgency as he explains that the other Victor’s happy…does not speak of a person who is willing to detach himself from his “anchor.” He loves this Victor. Which, to me, says that this father knows, deep, deep down that this Victor is real.
• Also! Watch how Joy and McCord echo some of each other’s mannerisms here. In particular, the specific way Henry and Victor both fidget with rubbing at their legs when they hesitate over certain painful things is so smart from both actors. This is, definitely, a father-son pair. Period.
• “WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!!!”
• “You said that it would be ok, you said that you would protect me. Why did you come here to do this?! Whyyy…why!?”
• You know FROM has done a strong job of explaining why Henry’s doing this and otherwise making him a sympathetic character because those screams still got to me. I’m not sitting here like “GET HIM VICTOR.” I mean, I partially am because of how emotional Victor is and with how much he’s throwing Henry’s past promises back in his face? But I don’t want either of these people to hurt. So, I’m not like…hoping for Victor to attack his dad or anything.
• Not Clara worrying her hands together and nervous now.
• “No questions, no arguments. Promise me.” Boyd with that finger pointed at Ellis on the “promise me.” But did we…did we think Ellis was actually not going to argue if/when sh** went down with Fatima?
• “These bones were actually children once.” THE EXPRESSION FROM HIM WHEN HE SAYS THIS AND LOOKS UP AT TABITHA????
• The hoarse delivery on that last “this was her!”
• “You f**ing piece of sh—. F—…” as he’s punctuating each word with a kick. Relatable.
• “BOYYYYYDDDDD!!!!”
• Here we go with the score breaking me before whatever happens does again. So good.
• Way, way too bright and sunny after seeing that happen down there in the dark. (The contrast is the point, I know. But ouch.)
• “Aww, look at you. All grown up.” This condescending b***h.
• “You’re gonna lose this time.” Please.
• Ending FROM Season 4 Episode 10 with the Boy in White looking equal parts terrified and defiant is so fascinating. Is this a game between the two with no real care for the people? Or was he really trying to help Victor all along? (I lean toward the latter…but why wouldn’t he actually help if so? What are the rules there???)
• Somewhere in my head, there are threads of a theory about how Marielle and Elgin came to town together and were also both trapped in nightmares at the end of Season 2, only to both die at nearly the same time. They also both had very big connections to Fatima and her “pregnancy.” Elgin thought he could save everyone by helping her along toward giving birth. Marielle wondered aloud whether or not harnessing Fatima’s ability to connect to her demon spawn might help. And…we see what happens to both of them and Fatima in this finale. Maybe it’s all a coincidence, but I’m not sure if our diabolical (complimentary) writers do coincidences, especially not on this level. If anyone has a theory, seriously, let’s talk in the comments.
• Will the Man in Yellow pretend to be Elgin now? Is Marielle’s spirit actually stuck here? What happens with the bones? Can Julie story walk and fix this??? Where do we go from here??
• I need all the answers right now, need the entire hiatus to recover from that, and hate that there are only 10 episodes left of this fascinating study of humanity under the worst conditions.

Agree? Disagree? What did you think of FROM Season 4 Episode 10 “If A Tree Falls In The Forest…”? Leave us a comment!

FROM Season 4 is now streaming on MGM+. The series will return for a fifth, and final, season. Stay tuned for FROM Season 5 news!