‘From’ Season 4 Episode 10 Review – The Town Bites Back, and Nobody Is Safe

There are very few shows on television that have cultivated the particular brand of sustained dread that ‘From‘ has made its signature. The MGM+ supernatural horror series, now in its penultimate season, has spent four years trapping its characters inside a nightmarish rural town where every road loops back to the beginning and something unspeakable waits in the dark.

The Season 4 finale, titled “If a Tree Falls in the Forest…,” aired on June 28, with a runtime of 50 minutes, and it arrives carrying the full weight of a season that has been slowly dismantling whatever fragile hope its characters had left.

The episode opens with Jade and Tabitha in the underground tunnels, removing the bones from the chamber while preparing to signal Boyd to pull down the Bottle Tree. But Jade has been keeping a secret: the bones will not stop the creatures from entering once the tree is uprooted, and he deliberately withheld that information from Boyd because he knew Boyd would have scrapped the plan entirely. It is a genuinely startling piece of character work, the kind of desperate moral compromise that ‘From’ does better than almost any other show in this genre, and David Alpay plays it with a quiet, gutted conviction that makes the betrayal land somewhere between heroic and tragic.

Above ground, things deteriorate with equal ferocity. The moment the Bottle Tree crashes down, the sun vanishes and the sky turns dark as if night has instantly fallen. The creatures begin their attack immediately, and Boyd’s group barely manages to escape the forest alive. Harold Perrineau, who has been the emotional spine of this series from the very first episode, is operating at full throttle here.

His Boyd is a man who has been asked to be strong in the face of the impossible for so long that watching him absorb yet another wave of catastrophe feels genuinely painful. There is a moment where he tries to comfort Kristi after a devastating loss, and the physical weight Perrineau brings to that scene allows his castmates to truly shine around him. That kind of generosity from a lead actor is rare, and it elevates every scene he shares.

Where the finale is somewhat less satisfying is in its relationship with resolution. The episode felt somewhat underwhelming in terms of new revelations, confirming what many had already suspected about Victor being right, but stopping short of offering any path forward for the survivors. Julie’s story-walking storyline remains unexplored, the purpose of the children’s bones is left ambiguous, and no new plan emerges to protect the residents from what is coming. For a mystery-box series heading into its final chapter, that is a calculated choice, but it will test the patience of viewers who have been waiting four seasons for the fog to lift even slightly.

The final moments are genuinely chilling. Sophia destroys all the talismans by dropping them into an opening in a tree, leaving every resident of the town completely exposed and defenseless just as the sky turns red and the lightning tears through it.

Fatima, who has been gradually transforming into one of the town’s nocturnal monsters after giving birth, chooses to stay behind in the caves so the others can escape, and it is the season’s most heartbreaking exit. The show has always understood that its monsters are most effective when they are wearing familiar faces.

“If a Tree Falls in the Forest…” is a finale that prioritizes atmosphere and emotional devastation over tidy answers, and in doing so it takes a certain kind of nerve. What it delivers in tension, performance, and dread is exceptional.

What it withholds in clarity and catharsis will either feel thrillingly purposeful or deeply frustrating depending entirely on your appetite for patience. For this viewer, the former wins out, mostly because Perrineau and company have earned the benefit of the doubt across four seasons of genuinely committed, often brilliant work.

8 out of 10.

Tell us in the comments whether you think this finale earned its cliffhangers or whether ‘From’ has been keeping its cards too close to its chest for too long.