New to 'FROM'? Here's Everything You Need to Know About The Show Millions Are Watching
It’s the mystery thriller that has fans begging for answers, with a new season just around the corner.
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If your group chat hasn't involved wild theories about "The Boy In White" yet, you're missing out on the biggest supernatural thriller of the last decade. Luckily for you, the first three seasons of the highly acclaimed FROM series are available on Stan right now, and the season four premiere is coming on Monday, April 20, so there's absolutely time to get into the series that's got everyone talking, speculating and widening their eyes with every twist and turn.
FROM kicks off when the Matthews family — father Jim (Eion Bailey), mother Tabitha (Catalina Sandino Moreno), daughter Julie (Hannah Cheramy) and son Ethan (Simon Webster) — drive into a town they can't leave. And they're not the only ones.
They soon discover that everyone who lives there is trapped. While it may look like an average midwestern town in America (albeit ten times creepier), it is anything but. Of course, being trapped anywhere indisputably sucks, however, that portion of this nightmare isn't even the worst of it. As the town tries to figure out why they're trapped in this unknown postcode, they must also dodge (and try to defeat) what comes out of the surrounding forest to threaten their survival and ultimate escape.
Come sunset, the town's sheriff, Boyd Stevens (Harold Perrineau), orders everyone inside to stay safe from "creatures" who roam the streets. At first, they don't look so scary. They cosplay as everyday people who look like they're stuck in the 1950s, including repeat offenders like a waitress, cowboy and librarian. Their human appearance allows them to deceive and trick the residents into letting them inside, and, once they're close enough, the monsters don't just kill them, they will torture them for their own deranged pleasure.
With windows bolted shut to stop the temptation to let them close, it gives audiences the same heart palpitations as Birdbox while also screwing with your head (and imagination) in the same way Lost did throughout the early 2000s. In fact, if FROM sounds like Lost to you, it might be because it's from the same producers behind that game-changing series: Jack Bender and Jeff Pinkner.
While the same notion of being trapped exists (this time in a Middle America town versus an island) — and they've retapped Perrineau for another leading role (he played Michael Dawson in Lost) — the show is vastly different while delivering on a feeling we've been craving since that plane crash all those years ago.
The twists, turns, revelations and puzzle-piece context have viewers mind-mapping and brainstorming for the answers, and there's serious character investment with both existing residents and the new ones welcomed along the way. Oh, and FROM promises better reveals and answers than the conclusion of Lost, and with everything we've learned so far about the town and its residents, it's definitely looking like that expectation will be lived up to.
The first three seasons of FROM are available only on Stan, each with ten episodes to send your living room spiralling into wild curiosity. Get into it quick and you'll be all caught up for the highly anticipated Season 4 in no time, premiering only on Stan this Monday, April 20. Episodes drop weekly, so you can become part of the fun (and mad theorising) in real time.
So, if you've been craving a mystery box drama, then FROM might just be the mind-screw you've been looking for. Just be warned: you might not be trapped in a town with monsters keeping you up at night, but the mysteries of this show sure might.
The brand new season of 'FROM' premieres April 20, only on Stan.
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