'From: Season 3 Episode 7': One of the weakest episodes of the show

Last week's episode of From was met with a rather sarcastic review from me. I mocked the lack of answers, the slow storytelling, and the tiresome movements of its characters as they all seemed impossible to communicate with each other. Though here and there the show gave some aspects of its story some attention. It doesn't feel like the show is in motion at all anymore. With last week's episode following another that was just dull, I shrugged it off given the episode prior to that was faster, with more momentum that teased the idea that something might actually start moving into place with the arrival of Tabitha and Victor's father into the town. I cannot stress it enough, but nothing has happened since. This is so far the worst season of the show given the total lack of development both in major events and in its character growth and struggles. So little has taken place over seven episodes to the point where my patience is running thin, and I'm certainly not alone there given the Internet seems to all be in agreement that the show is starting to feel stale with the total lack of movement. While many watched for the horror elements that have since disappeared into thin air, others found attention in the mystery, to which has also started to grow frustrating with the removal of all attention towards it. Only interesting moments taking up mere seconds of the episodes as they approach almost an hour in length.

Funnily, I wrote this template yesterday evening, to which I was to call this post "The Worst Episode of the Season" only to realise that Forbes had beaten me to it. The Internet appears to be up in arms over the state of season three, and in particular this seventh episode which one would assume would finally be really ramping up the suspense and action as the season approaches its end half before disappearing for another year in development. Now, episodes within television series that focus on character development and interaction are highly important, and every show will face its episodes in which the pacing drops off a bit to wind down and focus on setting the stage a little more, but From no longer feels that way. It's a show that is now heavily reliant on stretching things out as much as possible while the filler that replaced the true story actual makes little sense whatsoever. No longer giving us attention to the characters and their emotions and interactions, but rather making them appear to be the most idiotic and insufferable people imaginable, to the point where they themselves don't feel like real people. Poor writing as at the forefront of these problems as every episode now feels identical to the last: characters argue about nothing. Scene changes, and other characters talk about nothing. A bit of the main story is teased in one scene to which the nothingness repeats for another thirty minutes.

The show has slowly been working its way up with Elgin as it teases some strange spirit he has been seeing in hallucinations from time to time. These moments are more like hauntings. A strange ghostly and decayed looking woman that asks him for help. A difference to the rest of the hauntings given this woman seemingly poses no threat to him or anyone, and instead seems to be offering Elgin a way out somehow, recently stating that she can help him and help everyone else. An old polaroid camera takes a photograph of a specific location in the town to which Elgin checks out and finds the ghostly woman inside near a body. That's it. The rest of the episode fails to display anything more Elgin related as it dives back into the boring nonsense. Arguments are still empty in From, everyone is arguing about nothing. Still not communicating over the genuinely important events that have been taking place in their lives in the town, claiming it was never important or that they just did not want to talk about it. I hate this so much, but at the same time some of this does make sense because as episode seven shows: the characters don't actually listen to each other at all. Fatima talks of her strange feelings of pregnancy, while tests reveal she supposedly isn't pregnant. Everyone just boils it down to stress while totally dismissing anything else she claims might be happening due to more supernatural actions.

This has been a constant theme within the show, to the point where it's how the majority of conversations now unfold. There's only so much of this I (and the rest of the audience) can take. Constant development of its narrative isn't necessary with every episode, but where are the leads that were mentioned in previous episodes? Randall got tortured in a previous episode. Boyd claims to want to capture one of the monsters finally. Where is that intent now? Victor's father is now in the town and reunited with his son after decades. He knows of the events in the town and how strange monsters roam the night. He has been into the caves directly and witnessed them speak to him. He was present when a man went through a fucking tree and saw how a man ended up inside the walls of a swimming pool. However, when Victor states that a doll can speak and reveal the secrets of the town, this is supposedly unhealthy and too much. What?

Jim suddenly has no brain given he was previously receiving phone calls from his dead child but now refuses to believe Tabitha once had dreams as a child of specific locations in the town. Again, characters that have firsthand witnessed the strange events of the town and how none of it makes sense, but suddenly when someone else has their own experiences, they just aren't real and get rejected. None of that makes any sense whatsoever, and it's yet again something that has been happening throughout each and every episode to the point of stagnation in all other aspects of the show's story. Nothing really happens anymore. Events are teased rather than seen. The final scenes of the episodes are where most things happen now, with nothing to follow them later in the next episode. I'm getting tired, From. Maybe it's time I put you to the aside and spent my time watching something else.