From Season 3 Episode 8 Review: Thresholds

This week’s episode of From kicks off with young Fatima extremely remorseful for what happened to Tillie as she explains the sad circumstance to Boyd. She has no idea what transpired these events. A wave of anger came over her at the thought of having to eat more of the rotting that Tillie brought her. Of course, she was only trying to help Fatima when she was stabbed anyway with the shears. Whatever is inside of her is an evil force, and Fatima can no longer control her body.

The two most annoyed people in this episode are Ethan and Jade. I hear you Ethan, I would be 100 percent over my parent’s constant bickering. No matter how many times Tabitha and Jim try to hash things out and grow as a couple, it only seems to get worse. Honestly, I am so tired of Jim, and I don’t know many people who aren’t.

I AM NOT YOUR HOST

Henry pays Jade a very unwelcome visit. The man just wanted to focus on what he’s learned from Tabitha and continuing solving this puzzle. Now he’s got a boulder of irritation to attend to.

Ellis wants to tell Fromville the truth. This man is far too pure for his own good. Boyd knows that’s a terrible move and offers an alibi for him and Fatima. Acosta, though she’s on my list of the most hated, she is not slow intellectually. She knows this is off and was caused by a murder of the human form. Monsters surely do not need weapons to kill.

ALL SIGNS POINT TO SARA

Poor Sara does the best she can to help Victor with the doll, Jasper. I do love how patient and unrelenting she is with Victor. Sara is soft with him, but stern when she needs to be. She was trying her best to be a friend and help Victor along this task, but she’s failing, and Victor repeatedly lets her know it. She has no choice but to find Tabitha as his last hope.

Another episode down, another episode of Jim being a jerk. Seems to be the only thing you can rely on with this man. He tells Tabitha again, this place has her trying to fix something she doesn’t have the power to fix. Jim explains that the phone was ripped out because something out there is pretending to be Thomas. That force knows things about them and what buttons to push. I think it’s used as a distraction because Jade and Tabitha are starting to figure some things out.

THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE HERO

Victor only wants to talk to Tabitha. She’s the only one that can help. Whatever secrets Jasper possesses could be a ticket out of the place. The things he told Christopher may be the key into one day getting home.

Victor beats himself up for not knowing and not remembering what happened when he was a child. But Tabitha is very gentle with him. Very maternal. She soothes him a lot better than Sarah was able to. With Sara, there’s a deep friendship there, but I think there is also fear there of seeing the worst sides of each other.

Jade is so profoundly over Henry at this point. He goes on about how his wife had visions of this place and how he should have listened to her. Jade couldn’t be less enthused by this conversation. Henry does question why he thinks he can be the one to figure it out. He arrogantly replies because he’s smarter, not that he had much time to clarify with Jim barging in like some narcissistic macho man.

SOULMATES CANNOT BE DENIED

“Who the f—k do you think you are?” Jim asks Jade. All I could think was who do you? And I’ve been saying that from the start of this series. He manages to get in Jade’s face which was met by pushback, treating Tabitha like a child he is trying to protect as if she has no free-will of her own. Jade reminds him that his wife came to him, it wasn’t the other way around. This was unquestionably my favorite scene of the episode. Namely, because I’ve been dying for someone to put Jim in his place.

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David Alpay did such good acting here. Jade was in no way putting up with Jim’s sanctimonious attitude. When he said out of the two of us, I am the only one helping your family, I never cheered so loud. In the end, Jade slams the door in his face and my satisfaction arose.

Henry gives Jim some sage advice to shut up and listen to his wife for a change. He sees through Jim, all the mistakes he once made. Even Jim promised himself when Julie was born to be a better father and husband than his drunk father was. He made a vow then and there to always put them first. I don’t know where that Jim went, but he’s been missing in action for a while.

THE VOICES INSIDE YOUR HEAD

Julie is pretty reckless this episode. When Randall refuses to go back out into the woods, she takes her little brother. And for all the bitching she’s done this season to Jim, it’s not a smart situation to get her brother involved in. Then again, it’s not as if her parents can be depended on these days. Jim immediately left the moment Julie walked into the house. Without so much as a hi, how are you? Jim was off to “take care of something.” Aka his jealousy over Jade.

Julie does admit to Ethan that ever since her time with Randall in the woods, the voices and screams in her head got quieter. Ethan sees it as a good thing, but she’s not so sure yet. She just wants the screams to stop as anyone would. Julie senses something wants her to go in there. It’s just a pile of rocks. What could go wrong?

THE QUEST HAS JUST BEGUN

Ethan is a little confused when she asks what he would do? And it is a little strange, but maybe it had something to do with the closeness of their relationship. He tells her she’s at a threshold, and it’s scary, but she has to breathe. Together, they hold hands and go in, but the minute she does she’s all alone in the cave and the screaming commences. She sees herself, Randall, and Marielle bound to the wall in agony.

Throughout Julie’s ordeal, she witnesses the old man who transferred worms into Boyd just before that incidence. She is entering stories before they happen. We learn that it was Julie who threw the rope down for Boyd to get out of the well. Soon she hears Victor and Tabitha’s voices and then her brothers telling her to come on. Following that, it allowed her to wake up from her seizure. Mysteriously, she sprung up like not a thing happened to her, and it was just a bad dream.

Ellis wants to take Fatima out in the woods. With the talisman, they can survive out there. Boyd still hates the idea, mainly because if Fatima can do that to Tillie he could do it to his son too. The town is about to march down to Sara’s with torches, and that’s when Boyd lets Donna in on the secret it was Fatima. Somehow, Boyd thinks they will understand, like they did with Sara. But that wasn’t so much of an understanding as it was a request from the leader.

THE BELIEF IS GONE

Donna has no patience left and tells Boyd these people don’t believe in him anymore. Not the way they used to. You could visibly see how much it cut Boyd to hear that. There is something growing inside Fatima that’s wicked, or she has created this psychosomatic pregnancy because her mind is slipping. Donna urges Boyd to tell them, or she will. And you can tell it breaks her heart to have to do it. Fatima is like a daughter to her, but the situation becomes more dire than loyalties.

Elgin was sent another Polaroid after Tillie’s death, and then another picture of a blood bag. When he runs into Randall, Elgin revealed he was looking for a band aid. He cut his foot. But what he was really looking for were supplies for a blood draw, his own. Randall gave him a sincere apology for being so harsh with him. He knows now they should have turned around that day. Now Elgin is stuck with these everlasting visions. He must do what is asked of the Kimono woman so they can all get home.

HOW WAS THE WEATHER?

Tabitha so far has been a breath of release for Victor, but it was shockingly Sara who helped him start remembering. She asked Victor about that weather that day, which in turn helped him remember the events. Playing hide and seek with Eloise. Eventually, he recollected the church. A place that stood out because she’d never gone there before.

Victor remembers Jasper telling Christopher stories, but it wasn’t Jasper at all, it was the boy in white. He said the answers to the end are in the beginning. It started with the children. What the others did to them. The people they loved, who they trusted. The children were born in the dark and then murdered in the dark. But someone who loved them told them a story. The story gave them hope. That when the children laid on the stones they poured their hope into the roots to make the symbol, and those roots became the tree. The faraway tree. To save the children, Christopher would have to go through that tree, but he didn’t listen. Victor took that information to his mother Miranda, and that’s why she left them.

After a lot of persistence, Boyd agrees to let Ellis and Fatima go off into the woods. But one small hiccup, she’s not at the shack any longer. Elgin has already lured her away with the certainty that Ellis was waiting for her in the hidden room. He promises Fatima this is the only place the baby will be safe. Fatima is strangely confused he believes there is one. And he does but he tells her it’s not hers. She tries to escape but the pain makes her fall to the ground. Thanks to her weakened state Elgin is able to forcibly move her into the room.

THOUGHTS:

• Julie is now a time traveler, but for what purpose?
• Victor and Tabitha’s strong maternal bond is growing. It needs to be protected from all evil.
• Henry and Jim have some sort of connection. There is a battle of alcoholism and desperately wanting to be a good father. Even if they keep falling up short. They even seem to have the same marital problems.
• Victor and Sara have a connection that I always want to see more of. There is something strong there that combines trust and understanding. Victor really depends on her when he starts to crack. And even when he continues to roast her in her home, she has enough love for him to accept him at all his faults. I’m not sure what their connection is yet, but there’s a genuine affection that has me intrigued.

What comes next for From? Find out next week on MGM+ in the penultimate episode of season 3.

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