'From' Renewed For Fifth & Final Season At MGM+

S1 here, I’m glad it’s definitely getting an ending for sure. S4 needs to start answering some shit though because they’ll run out of road otherwise. S3 gave a few crumbs of answers but I want the full meal.

Pretty much the same for all shows IMO. I think 6-7 seasons is the max any show should have.

The problem is, 3 seasons in and we have no f****** clue what is actually going on. It really feels like they are just making shit up as they go and have no idea what they are trying to make. I hope all this makes sense in the end because as of the end of season 3, it just feels like 1 step forward and 10 steps back. I see some other comments saying they gave some answers. I have no clue wtf they are talking about. I only have questions.

I don't know. They reeled me in hard in season 3.

Exactly the same and really happy that we are getting shows with a beginning, middle and end. We don’t really need 10+ seasons and multiple spin offs. Just tell us an interesting story and then move on.

I loved season 1, but basicly nothing actually happened since then.

Did you watch an entire season while disliking it?

Does it though? People seem to forget old days of networks pushing through 10-15 new series each fall, then canceling the majority of them if they failed to capture an audience within the first dozen episodes. Netflix still cancels a ton of shows, but the trend of canceling a show within weeks of its premiere seems to have slowed for the most part. FX, HBO, and Apple in particular have been very faithful to their creatives when it comes to letting a show continue despite low viewership.

Shows used to get cancelled after the pilot

Oh, is it just the one season available for free? I was thinking of starting it but I am not adding another service for one show.

It's probably better for the show to be a big fish in a small pond at MGM instead of a cancellation waiting to happen at prime

Prime is really quite awful isn't it?

I loved the BCC miniseries but it looks like no one else ever saw it.

X files was a bad show from an older era, the writing on From is a lot more confidence inducing. They didnt wrap things up in a bow cuz their writers couldn’t figure out how; not on purpose. Just a limitation of their artistic skill.

Yeah that’s called bad writing

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The answers they started providing at the end of the last season were pretty satisfying I thought

that’s not what Iv herd my friend who’s not stupid in the slightest was saying he made to the third season and stopped watching because it provided zero answers while opening up more questions. And it made him believe that not even the writers know what’s actually going on.

Like what?

It’s one of the few title intros I don’t skip.

I am sure he was hired to get some of the 'lost' viewers onboard and I am not going to lie, it worked for me, I checked out the show because of him, watching this thing from S1E01.

I’m all caught up! Love that show too and can’t wait for S3

It's not bad but Lost is miles ahead.

Are they plot holes or just things you don't know?

Mysteries without answers just yet aren't plot holes

So is it just 4 seasons of never ending unresolved questions? Or is there some resolution between each season? (Does it give any feeling of “pay off”? or does it just string you along the entire way…)

Same. Season 1 had me hooked but then season 2 bored me

For me that sucks even if it's what they intended. Purposefully frustrating your audience is just whack storytelling. I think it's more likely that it's just a standard mystery box failure where the writers aren't good enough to handle the ebb and flow of mystery > reveal that is required to be done throughout the entire show properly to keep the viewer engaged and not feeling cheated.

Bullshit. people keep saying they answered stuff, but they didn't answer shit, only made more questions. Here is an example. Take this question: "What are the bottle tree trees?". Some spooky mysterious tree/s with bottles hanging from them with little notes inside that have random numbers written on them. Are the numbers dates? Is it a code? why are some of the numbers backwards? These are all reasonable questions. But the actual answer? They are musical notes! You might be saying eureka! there's your answer, checkmate atheists! But that still makes no god damn sense. Musical notes mean nothing when you don't know the order to play them in. They also make no sense being notated in that way. They could have just, you know, wrote the musical notes down the way you are supposed to write musical notes down. They could also, you know, actually tell you a cohesive order to play them in, then you got an actual song going. And then, what is it even mean still? Ok so now you have some dumb-as-shit convoluted system for coming up with some dumb song, now what? Why a song? What does the song mean? what is the song for? Why all the bullshit just to get to this point and still have no clue what any of it means any way? Hurr durr, people aren't paying attnetion, hurr durr, the show *is* giving answers hurr durr. Bullshit. I have even more questions. I don't count this as an answer at all. It is slightly more information than we had before, but since I have like 10 more additional questions now and still no answer to the original question which is, 'what are the bottle tree/s?", have we actually gotten anywhere? I paid more attention than the show likely even deserves at this point, and I only have more questions and have achieved zero answers. Learning a teeny weenie bit more about the monsters does not answer an answer make. I still have the question "Yo, what is the deal with these monsters yo? Just when you think you are starting to piece stuff together, the show just shovels more shit onto the pile. who is the guy? Is he the guy from the radio? Who is that other guy? What was that thing banging on the roof of those creepy cabins? And what are those cabins anyway? What is with the dates? Or are they dates or some dumb ass musical notes, or something? What is with the rotten food? Why is the town some old 50s town but all this other shit is even older? What is the deal with the 50's monsters? why are there ghosts? Why do some people hear voices and others don't? How do people get stuck in the town? How did that one b**** leave the town, only to just come back anyway? And what is the deal with the light house? And what is up the bugs? And why can some random characters jsut like have visions and time travel and shit but other people are just cattle standing by to be massacred? What are the talismans? Why did the monsters not kill the one guy? What is with the disgusting children? What is that jibberish they are saying? I could keep going, but what is the point? You don't the answers to these questions either, and if you think you do, you are wrong. I watched this last time it aired and these are just random nonsense questions off the top of my head, none of which get answered in season 3. I have way more than these still, and I have perused what some people claim are the answers, and those people are wrong as far as I can tell. They are just hair brained theories based on nothing. There are no answers yet, only more questions. until we know what this all is and what it means, you don't know. You might think you are getting answers, but you aren't really. Here is another example off the top of my head. The weird symbol we kept seeing. What is that? Oh, we later learn that it is tree roots from above where the children were sacrificed. Ok, so now we know what the symbol is of, and where it came from, but we still have no clue why, so we still don't have the answer. You might tick this off as one more answer to another one of the questions, but until we know what it means or why any of it happened or why some people see that symbol, we still don't know what it is or why it is significant. If that is what you mean by the show is giving answers, I fundamentally disagree with you on what constitutes an answer.

yes, typo.