‘From’ Season 2, Episode 4 Review: This Way Gone

From continues to offer up a terrific second season, though this Sunday’s episode is perhaps best described as the calm before the storm—assuming, of course, that things go from bad to worse in the near future.

Not a lot actually happens this episode, so this may be a shorter-than-usual recap/reviews. Let’s go over the main points:

Boyd is having some weird symptoms obviously resulting from being infected/possessed by the weird worm-things under this skin. He’s also seeing things, like a vision of Father Khatri, who encourages him to lie to Kenny about Sarah’s part in his father’s death. This comes back to haunt him when Sarah tells Kenny herself. She wants to come clean. She doesn’t think she deserves to live, and maybe she’s right. But I think Boyd is right on this one. Nobody should go in the box.

We’ll see how long that lasts with Randall (the new guy) causing so much trouble, getting in fights, disobeying orders and acting like a complete ass all the time. He’s going to get somebody killed or kill somebody himself and then everyone’s patience will run out. Donna moves him from Colony House to the bus, giving him a Talisman and basically telling him to enjoy the show. Things get scary at night when you have that many windows.

Tabitha and Jim talk about some of the stuff they’ve learned. The radio and the voice on the other end. The wires going nowhere. Jim wonders if the whole thing is an experiment, something designed so that whatever is watching them can see how they react. Tabitha, annoyingly, doesn’t tell her husband about her visions of the two creepy children.

The town’s inhabitants need to have a big town meeting where they compare notes. I think Jade, Edgin, Ethan, Sarah and Victor are the main characters who have special sight (either dreams, visions, the Boy in White, etc.) Tabitha now has her own visions as well, and Boyd. That’s a pretty big team of people in the know in some way or another. They need to combine their knowledge of the Faraway Trees, the Boy in White, the crap that Boyd saw in the dungeon etc. Jim hasn’t been seeing things, but he’s smart. Put enough heads together, maybe you start getting answers.

Hopefully this show doesn’t drag out the whole “characters not sharing information to keep tension high” thing too long. I’m glad that we’re getting the lies and deceit out of the way fast with Boyd/Sarah/Kenny but we really need to have Jade and Victor and anyone else who has special information or knowledge to actually team up soon.

I get that Victor is angry about the invasion of his privacy, but at some point this needs to move forward and we need to plunge deeper into whatever lays in wait beyond the town. The old man said the town is “just the tip of the spear.” Time to make our way to the shaft. I like the idea of the quest that Ethan has, and I want the party of adventurers to assemble and get on with it!

In the end, Kenny hands in his badge, understandably angry that Boyd didn’t tell him the truth. If he’s not seeing the bigger picture here, you can’t blame him. He has plenty of guilt over his dad’s death, and now he has a killer and a coverup to contend with.

Speaking of coverups, Donna tells Jim that nobody should know about the voice on the other end of the radio. False hope and all that. I think she’s wrong, obviously, since the only chance they have at this point to get out alive is by sharing intel with one another. Jim needs to—at the very least—tell Jade. We shall see.

Speaking of Jade, he remains my favorite character and this episode proves why. He’s so hilariously acerbic. His line to the bus driver about how she shouldn’t worry about ruining anyone’s lives because hey, they were on a bus, how great could their lives be, was so damn funny I laughed out loud.

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