SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for From Season 4, Episode 6.

To start on a lighter note, one thing that’s been consistently wonderful this season is MGM+‘s From is the return of Jade’s cat shirt in full force. In real life and on an acid trip, that’s been a welcome, adorable throwback. It was also really nice to see Julie apologize to Sara and for those two to begin a sort of friendship. Of course, though, this is From, so the lightheartedness ends there. We’re thrown right into more drama — and maybe a way home?

Will Jade’s hallucination plan work? It’s not a bad idea, but it is a scary one. Going into the tunnels and finding and honoring the sacrificed children’s bones does make a sort of poetic sense, and his acid trip did end with him literally buried beside them.

Boyd, however, used to be bolder and more willing to take risks. Back in the day, he’d wander the woods at night and stumble on the talismans by pure accident. This town has worn him down to operate more fearfully. Now, when there’s maybe a chance of a plan, he’s become more timid. When Jade offers up proof of his vision via a door he saw in the Colony House basement, they are unable to find it, and Boyd shuts down immediately. It’s hard to blame him, but it is showing the town is winning. In its way, it’s making good on its promise, and it’s breaking him.

The reveal of Roger’s body in the shed is another hard-hitting moment. With his face carved and crudely stitched into a smile and his eyes covered with sewn-on buttons, he looks like he had a fatal run-in with the Other Mother from Coraline. It seems that not only do those giant, scary dolls kill you, they symbolically turn you into one of them. This is also the first episode that Acosta hasn’t been even an ounce annoying. Actor Samantha Brown’s deliveries of ‘Boyd’s just trying to keep me busy because he knows that I want to kill myself” and “people have strange conversations here” were delightful.

From Has Us Worried For Victor and Henry

Harold Perrineau as Boyd Stevens

It feels universally agreed upon that poor Victor has more than gone through enough, yet nearly every episode, he has to unearth more trauma. The sight of him standing on the edge of the roof, despondent, was quite upsetting. Though Boyd talked him down, an extra depressed Victor is a new worry.

Even his dad, Henry, isn’t marked safe from stressing the audience out. He has been drinking more and more since learning about the Man in Yellow. Even worse, his drinking partner is the Man in Yellow, as Sophia sets her cruel, scary sights on messing with him in his obviously vulnerable state. Between her fake drunk act and her prodding questioning about his family and planting the idea that this may all just be a dream in his head, it was bad enough. But her slyly poisoning Henry’s drink with her blood? What fresh terrors does that promise?

David Alpay as Jade Herrera, Samantha Brown as Acosta

From Reminds Us It’s Not Just The Supernatural Horrors We Need To Be Scared Of

What would the town and Colony House be without the driving force and beating heart of Donna? That’s not a question we like to dwell on, but it was one that we had to this episode. Her heart attack was as much of a jumpscare as any monster or ghoul, because it truly is so unexpected. Will something so ultimately ordinary be what takes her out?

As her fate lies uncertain, we do see just how beloved she is, with a gaggle of people worried outside her door. We also see how young Ethan has been truly forced to grow up so quickly, as he wants to soberly say goodbye to her. After all, as he says, “everyone dies here.”

Meanwhile, Father Khatri’s ongoing pop-ups that seem crafted to both propel Boyd forward and annoy him all at once have continued to be a joy. But what really is the truth of that? Since the souls do stay here, is it really him? Or is it yet another trick?

By the end of the episode, Donna does wake up, and all we can do is hope she is truly out of the woods (no pun intended). This spurs Boyd to take a little more action and want to trust in Jade. With a hammer in hand, he heads to the basement, hits the wall, and finds Jade’s door. But when it’s opened, is that the first step back home or over the threshold into something much more dangerous?

From airs Sundays at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on MGM+. Photo Credit: Courtesy of MGM+.

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