The following contains spoilers from From Season 4, Episode 10, “If a Tree Falls in the Forest…”
One of the biggest horror shows, From, is nearing its series finale. The show just aired its Season 4 finale, and it has already been renewed for Season 5.
Ahead of the Season 4 finale, Jeff Pinkner and John Griffin, the showrunner, creator, and executive producers of From, hopped on Reddit for a Q&A, where they teased an “endgame” Season 5 finale. In a new interview with ScreenRant after Season 4 aired, they also confirmed Season 5 will answer some burning questions and confirmed a major theory about the Man in Yellow.
From Is Nearing its Finale
The MGM+ horror series has turned into a sleeper hit and gained a major since the release of Season 3. Aside from ongoing memes about Julie’s wig and jokes about Boyd’s crash outs, the show has everyone trying to decipher what’s going on.
The Season 4 finale ended with Tabitha and Jade finally getting the bones, but they were stuck in the tunnels. Boyd, Fatima, and Ellis managed to get them out of their dead end, but it had Fatima turn into a monster to protect them. In the last few moments, the Man in Yellow met the Boy in White, and the latter was confident the residents are close to finally making it.
Showrunner and executive producer Jeff Pinkner told ScreenRant that they had “a story with a beginning, middle, and end, and season 5 is the endgame.” Pinkner hyped MGM+ for allowing them to tell that story, as the plan was for five seasons and 50 episodes.
He confirmed, “I think that what you’re going to see in season 5 is really answers to questions like, ‘How does this story wrap up? Are our characters going to survive? Are they going to be able to get out of this Town? What will people have to sacrifice along the way? How will they overcome the Man in Yellow, if they are even able to?'”
From’s Man in Yellow Explained by the Showrunner
The final scene of the two supernatural beings, the Man in Yellow as Sophia and the Boy in White, was the first time they interacted in the series after the Man in Yellow approached Tabitha earlier in the season. He then confirmed that they were nearing the finale and told her no one had gotten as far as this version of herself and Jade. In the new interview, Pinkner confirmed that the Man in Yellow is not all-knowing; he’s figuring this all out in real time just like everyone else. “That scene is really just underscoring for the audience that, for the Man in Yellow, this is a work in progress too.”
“The Man in Yellow has created a condition where people are called back to this Town and suffer here, and it’s the suffering that fuels him. I think that scene helps us explicate that he’s as curious as anyone about finding out exactly how this is going to end. It’s not foretold; it’s a story that is unfolding in real time. It’s not already preordained — and that’s the kind of story that the three of us are the most interested in telling, one that isn’t preordained, but is happening, becoming, and evolving in the same way that our characters are constantly evolving and changing. One such case is Fatima’s transformation.”
Pinkner added, “I think it’s an interesting notion to be able to look and say, “Oh, so they are aware of each other!” Wherever that may lead or whatever that might be setting up, it’s confirmation that these two figures, who have operated in the background and whom we’ve only seen on the periphery, are absolutely aware of each other.”
From is streaming on MGM+.
- Release Date
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February 20, 2022
- Network
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Epix, MGM+
- Directors
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Jack Bender, Brad Turner, Alexandra La Roche, Bruce McDonald, Jeff Renfroe
- Writers
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Vivian Lee, Kristen Layden, Brigitte Hales, Jeff Pinkner, John Griffin
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Harold Perrineau
Boyd Stevens
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Catalina Sandino Moreno
Tabitha Matthews
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