The TV Thriller Mystery “FROM” Has Hooked Millions With Every Episode, and This Is Why

If “The Boy In White” or a “Faraway Tree” mean nothing to you, we hate to say it, but you’re sleeping on the biggest supernatural horror of the last decade. But all is not lost, because mystery drama “FROM” is still unfolding on Stan right now, meaning there’s still time to get amongst the television show that’s got millions around the world hooked.

So, in an ever-expanding streaming landscape, what makes “FROM” so addictive? Created by John Griffin (Crater, Magic: The Gathering) alongside the same producers of “Lost“, Jack Bender and Jeff Pinkner, the show is filling a very big hole since that game-changing Oceanic 815 plane crash back in the early noughties. This time, instead of being trapped on an island, the characters of “FROM” are stuck in an average American town while facing circumstances that are anything but.

The series kicks off when the Matthews family — father Jim (Eion Bailey), mother Tabitha (Catalina Sandino Moreno), daughter Julie (Hannah Cheramy) and son Ethan (Simon Webster) — drive into a town they can’t leave. They quickly discover that everyone who lives here can’t escape either, and, while being trapped indisputably sucks, that portion of the nightmare isn’t even the worst of it. As the town tries to figure out why they’re trapped here, they must dodge “monsters” that surface from the surrounding forest to taunt them, threaten them… and to make them go just a little bit (a lot) mad.

Come sunset, the town’s sheriff, Boyd Stevens (Harold Perrineau — “Lost”, “Romeo + Juliet“), orders everyone inside to stay safe from these “monsters” who roam the streets. At first, they don’t look so frightening; just everyday neighbours, maybe a few shades paler. Think a waitress (Terri Smith-Fraser), cowboy (Wil Lang) and librarian (Daphne Stephen) who look like their stuck in the 1950s, and have a pale complexion to match the fact that they never see the sun’s rays. But it’s their human appearance that enables them to trick the town into letting them inside — once they’re close enough, the monsters don’t just kill them, they torture them for their own sick pleasure.

With windows bolted shut to stop the temptation to let them in, it gives audiences the same freakouts as Birdbox while also screwing with your head (and imagination) a la “Lost”. While it’s from the same producers, the show manages to be vastly different while delivering on that mindmap madness we’ve been missing. Oh, and “FROM” promises better reveals and answers. As someone who watched “Lost” and is up to date on “FROM”, it sure feels like the writers are en route to delivering that promise.

If you’re as sold as the millions of others who dominate the group chat with their fan theories, the first three seasons of “FROM” are available only on Stan, with each episode unravelling more desire for answers. Needless to say, you’ll be all caught up for the highly anticipated Season 4 in no time, premiering only on Stan this April 20 and dropping new episodes weekly.

If your streaming rotation needs something that actually grabs your attention and doesn’t lose it, “FROM” might just be the mind-screw you’ve been looking for. Fair warning, though: even though you’re not trapped in a town with creatures keeping you up at night, the mysteries of this show will definitely keep your mind racing well past your bedtime.

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The brand new season of “FROM” premieres April 20, only on Stan.