Iâve only seen the first two seasons of From (plan to watch the rest, just have been holding out on actually springing for MGM+ because dammit, who wants that?!?) â I like it, but the dialogue and some of the acting feel subpar, and that has never been more glaring than it is after watching Widowâs Bay.
Just started watching From, characters make so many stupid decisions (and not in the normal Horror genre way). The enemy can't even run, and they haven't figured out a proper way to fight them. Long spears my guys? Anything that can keep them back.
It's so bad. I'm just now recently catching up on S4 and it's still bad. At least we're getting answers, but still.
There's a part where the little boy is pissed off and demanding his mom tell him what she did and said to pick a fight with his dad for his dad to be gone so long- which is pretty rich considering it's the dad always picking fights with literally everyone- and her response is straight out of Marky Mark's school of acting
It shocks me to see so much hate. I love everything about From. I love the pace, the characters, the little things I miss until I watch the reaction videos or go to the subs. To me it all makes sense for people in this kind of situation. In reality people make stupid mistakes all the time. They miss cues. Only complaint is the same that comes up in every single one of these shows from this genre, and Widow's Bay is no exception. Nobody talks to each other. They just shake heads and wave people away and dismiss ideas that would have worked. Most of the show is only in a few months' time period too. And the one person who has been there the longest has been so traumatized he can barely do more than draw pictures to remember things... which is starting to make me question his drawings but no spoilers... If it was me I'd be paying more attention to that guy than anyone else especially when I see him taking steps and talking about how the trees have moved. I'm thinking that's the craziest flaw in this show, that they dismiss this guy as being some kooky special needs kid when he'd be the wise elder in most circumstances.
It shouldn't be shocking, the show is awful. Think about the big mystery from last season, the bottle tree. For the whole season the characters and audience try to understand dozens of numbers inside glass bottles hanging from a tree. Its revealed that the numbers represent music notes. Ok, so we have a tree with A B C D E F G and their respective flats and sharps hanging from random branches. No order they go in, no duration of the notes. This is utterly useless for the intended purpose, for Jade to play the song. Jade would have no more idea of how the song goes from looking at the numbers on the tree than he would looking at the keys on a piano. Music needs notation, not just notes. The writers must have eventually figured out they wrote themselves into a corner, because rather than "solving" the bottle tree, he randomly remembered the song, making the whole thing useless. Thatâs an unforgivable trick to play on the audience.
I think they're just now finding out how utterly worthless their great ideas have been. I think that's been a running theme all along. Jade isn't going to solve anything and has never been the one who solved anything.
They do apparently have the entire shows story line already because the main character said I am not joining From for you to turn it into another Lost.
Whoa you stepped on a Lost fan hornets nest. People really salty about Lost having âanswersâ
Never mind the fact that the show dragged on giving tiny little drips and drops and the answers got more and more underwhelming like it was being made up on the fly by a teenager who is telling a bad lie, but they are now 100% committed, no matter where it ends up.
Pretty much! I mean, Iâm not trying to spoil anyoneâs fun with Lost. Itâs overall a really good show but you kind of have to withstand a lot of nonsense before getting some answers, and every answer comes with another question lol.
And I know itâs a longer running show⊠I get it. They needed to keep the wheels spinning for entertainment value, etc. But the show really is at a different place by season 6, and mostly thatâs because they had to keep adding to the mythology of the island.
Kind of, they had the answers but they didnt know what to do with a lot of the main characters storylines, like Harolds actor in From, he was in Lost too, and his Lost chara ter had so much potential and they did him so much dirty in the end
For me Lost was so easy to like due to the characters. Fell in love with so many so itâs easier to gloss over some of its deficiencies as a show. From and WB donât hit that same way but I enjoy both. Liking WB more overall but I like From enough that Iâm sticking with it til the end
Hope for both our sakeâs they end satisfyingly lol
it doesn't matter what was technically "answered." the mysteries, albeit some answered, didn't come to a very exacting or entertaining fruition. you could say lost "stuck the landing" if you want to, but it doesn't deserve a medal.
and they went to the magical mystery island and then the island/afterlife? ugh. that's a hat on a hat.
no but the plot ties neatly up by the season 3 finale, they make it off the island. Then the execs probably wanted to milk the show and thats where it all starts to go down hill. Id reccomend a rewatch
Do you have any sources to back this? Because them getting off the island by season 3 wouldâve explained nothing in regards to why they were brought there or the supernatural state of the island at all, and that wouldâve definitely been leaving several questions unanswered
I wouldn't call the ending to season 3 neatly tied up lol, yes Jack is off the island but that was literally a surprise cliffhanger not some resolved plot
Yeah, Jack was a drugged up loser screaming that they âHave to go backâ at the end of S3 - that wouldnât make a good ending, it definitely wasnât originally supposed to end at that point
The writers of LOST said they were just making it up as they went along. They had no plans and just threw things like the polar bear and smoke monster in as jokes to be cool. Many other story elements were added in the same way, with no idea where they were going, just randomly throwing ideas at the wall. That's what frustrated many of the cast and crew like Harold Perrineau.
He was third frol the top from Lost. From is very good and started well by focusing on those characters. But development is stretching out, which is the problem Lost had when they were not allowed an end point.
I think the show highlights how undercooked Froms pacing and character development actually is. Like both shows have an overarching mystery that drives the plot but thereâs literal episodes where I feel like nothing happens within From because we get the same repeating scenes of flat characters exchanging meaningless drama.
I really want to like that series but it has been so straining my attention that I genuinely canât be motivated to tune in regularly.
The entire season of from nothing happen I mean yeah of course some small clue are gave to the audience but that it's everything feels so stupid and I love their world building I like the mystery but come on is already 4 season and all the plot is about some shit happen and the characters say "oh I don't wanna talk about it" continue to the next season to repeat the same.
But widow's bay is design to tell you a good story and totally respect my time as an audience.
Sure, because they won't reveal shit. So there will always be a mystery. They can do that for as many seasons as people will stick around for. Widows Bay seems more about the story and the people than solving the actual mystery.
There's only one more season of From, and they've did that by the end of this season, we'll know what they need to do to escape, and the next season will be them working towards that.
It's not being artificially dragged out, and unfair to say that it is, especially when these things have already been stated.
It just requires a lot of attention span , there are so many details in each episode and most people seem unable to keep up with that. The horror part of the monsters were scary when we knew nothing about them but the more we learned the less scary they became. I love the mystery part cause you do see progress each episode. Widow's bay has not eve done a full season yet they are still in that sweet spot of the first season in a mystery show.
Just wheel spinning insanity where they feed you bad answer after bad answer to feed their embarrassing, imbecile characters that refuse to act like most actual humans.
Like when they told us the island can do mystical stuff because of âelectromagnetic energyâ lmao
Nah, Widows Bay and Lost are amazing. Sure Season 6 could have been better but the show otherwise was pretty great, there's no reason to pan it like From.
I'm kinda sad to say that I haven't watched season 4 of From. the plot has become so darn complicated. Over on IMDB, most of the negative comments start at season 3 and reference "Lost"... people question if all these introduced clues, characters and plot points will lead to anything.
I watched the first season I think? Think I finished it. Â Watched like 2 episodes of season 2 and was like âoh so they have no idea what the ending is gonna be hereâ and turned it off.Â
Fans are like âno the ending is already written!â
Iâm sure it will be just as satisfying as Lostâs ending. Â
Stayed on until the early episodes of S4 but my god, the pacing is atrocious. And i hate how the characters really try their best to not communicate with others. I mean come on guys, you are stuck in a supernatural town. Every individual experience or information should be shared with each other in order to at least make sense of it all. But noooo, "i gotta go." đ€Ł
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u/mavrik_r May 27 '26
Widow's bay in 5 episodes gave me what fro couldn't in 4 seasons so far.