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Ghosts 🤝 From
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FROM as a show is so special because it's one of those rare instances where the most disliked character that the fandom finds to be annoying for any and all reasons... is a white man. Instead of doing the usual thing where the most hated character is a woman who is over-hated for even the most minor misstep (with the underlying real reason being misogyny). And I just think that's so beautiful, so thank you Jim for being mildly but consistently irritating. The world is healing ❤️
#at least this is the general opinion of Jim that ive come across so far anyway lol i was so happy to find out i wasnt the only one#tho tbh Julie and Tabitha took a while to grow on me. but i think by about season 2 they did#from#from mgm#from epix#FROM tv series#FROM#'FROM' THE SHOW#help this show is so annoying to try and tag 😭#FROMily#FROMily i hope you find this#jim mathews#jim from#jim from 'from'#that word is starting to lose all meaning to me now
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so lemme get this straight.
When we first met Victor I didn’t like him, and after a while he became one of my favourites
When we first met Jade I couldn’t stand him, and after a while he grew on me so now i’m chill with him
When we first met Randall I wanted him gone, and up until today’s episode I still wanted him gone…now I want him gone a little less.
moral of the story: give it time and this show will make you root for every single character.
this show…goddamn.
#from mgm#from epix#from tv#from tv series#fromville#fromily#victor kavanaugh#jade herrera#randall kirkland
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Tabby’s collection of husbands
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Here are some FROM posters I created for Randall, Jade, and Kenny!
#Don't mind the watermark#it's just for my instagram#from#from mgm#from epix#fromtv#randall kirkland#jade hererra#kenny liu#photoshop#fromily#from tv show
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my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😝 this strain is called "From." You'll be zonked out of your gourd 💯
Me: yeah whatever. i dont feel shit.
Me 5 minutes later: dude i swear there has to be a mechanically sound way to construct a radio tower on top of a Victorian mansion
my wife pacing: the monsters in the caves are hiding the electricity from us
#jim matthews#tabitha matthews#from tv show#from tv series#from mgm#from epix#fromblr#from 2022#fromily
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*Everyone escaped and now they're boarding a plane together, to go home*
Tabitha: Hey, honey you okay? Are you nervous?
Victor: Yes.
Tabitha: Is this your first time?
Victor: No, I've been nervous lots of times.
#incorrect quotes#incorrect from quotes#tabitha matthews#tabitha herrera#victor kavanaugh#from#from epix#headcanons#from mgm#from season 3#from tv show#from 2022#from epix imagine#from fanfiction#from series#from tv#from tv series#fromville#fromily#witchthewriter#tabitha x victor#friendship#plane#nervousness
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^ this is what I see when he comes on screen btw
monsters? hallucinations? Jim? evil music box??? dude what are you talking about nothing bad ever happens in fromville
#this is how I view them btw#every time without fail#from mgm#from epix#fromville#fromily#from fanart#ignore the fact that randalls nose is just GONE 😭😭 let him suffocate idc
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Me since season 2: You know, I wouldn’t miss Jim if he was gone.
Me at season 3 ep 10: NOT LIKE THAT NOT LIKE THAT NOT LIKE THAT NOT-
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FROM (2022 - present)
I feel like the people that make it here, it's because they... there's a part of themselves that they hold on to. Last night, I feel like I saw that piece of her start to slip away. Then it has to be you, okay? You have to be that piece of her that this place can't take away. That's how we get through this.
#fromedit#from mgm#from epix#tvedit#from cast#filmtv#harold perrineau#being the towns dad with his one bio son and his two adopted kids (kris and kenny)#yh so this was gonna be a mari/kris parallel with fatima/ellis bc it's actually crazy how many parallels between them#but alas#it turned into a here's my fave dynamics#**my edit#anyway sorry kenny wish my pc didn’t die on me I didn’t mean to exclude u 🫶🏾#boyd stevens#ellis stevens#and to other no last name characters#fromily
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Greetings from Fromville! :)
T-shirt and other products available on my Redbubble
#from#from series#from tv series#from tv#from mgm#from epix#fromville#from tv show#from season 3#fromily#jade herrera#boyd stevens#victor kavanaugh
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The Identity of the Man in Yellow
These are just my speculations but you still have to have watched S3E10 of FROM to get all the references. So it's not exactly spoiler-y because S3 ended weeks ago, but if you haven't caught up with all the episodes it is, lol.
The first thing I want to say is that I havent't found anybody talking about the significance of the color yellow and it's a bit weird because it's such a glaring thing! I'd like to write about it because the use of colors in general but in American media is always very precise. I mean, yes, color studies and film studies go hand in hand but also I've always been fascinated by how American writers are very intentional with their choice of colors in their works (Poe and Melville with white, Hawthorne and red, Morrison and blue, Perkins Gilman and yellow but also Fitzgerald and yellow/gold etc).
If it wasn't clear enough before, it is now: one of FROM's undercurrent themes is race. This is why I'm baffled by people being confused as to who the monsters are. I mean, guys, please. An eerie town stuck in the fifties, isolated, in the middle of nowhere. Where there's a sign for a motel but no motel (which I take as an unwillingness to welcome foreigners but an interest in luring them in). Where all monsters are white (I have things to say about the Kimono Girl but I won't now) and blood is represented as being infectious and carrier of weird things&death.
I think it's safe to say that one of the meanings of the monsters is to represent the cultural anxities of white people around racial purity. Throw in the Civil War soldiers, the never spoken-about-but-it's-there Vietnam War and the fact that Boyd is black and his wife Abby is white and their son Ellis marries Fatima and that from their union SYMBOLICALLY (I have to highlight this word everytime) a monster is reborn... That the monsters want to BREAK Boyd... There's no escape, the monsters are all about race.
So what does this have to do with the Man in Yellow? (It's a long post)
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the Man in Yellow is Jim's father.
No, not his actual father, rather the reincarnation of Jim's father. I don't know how to technically fit this into the reincarnation aspect, but, I believe, just like Tabitha and Jade are destined to go back to the town to save the children (and fail), the Man in Yellow is destined to go back to the town to continue the abuse (and succeed). Because the thing about the cycle of abuse is not only about victims who keep being sacrificed but also about abusers who keep doing the sacrifice. And since the sacrifice is all about parents and children... the Man in Yellow must be someone's father and my money's on Jim.
If you really think about it, it makes sense because monsters are connected with immortality but they were CLEARLY scammed by someone because, surprise!, they can very much die. Sure, they can be reborn the same as before (not reincarnated) but they need actual people there for them to come back. Which means that someone must send/attract/lure these people to the town.
It's not a coincidence that a lot of screen-time is given to Jasper, the ventriloquist dummy. To me the monsters are like the dummy so there must be a ventriloquist as well.
The facts are these:
in the pilot the little girl opens the window because the monster tells her that she's her grandma. It's established from day 1 that we need to watch out for grandparents or people claiming to be them;
the father of said child MUST die because he failed to protect his child (and wife). In hindsight THAT was a HUGE clue;
right before the Matthews met the tree (lol), Jim says how he wishes things were like they were before and recalls the day he and Tabitha met her parents. Tabitha says that she was terrified that they wouldn't like him. So the theme of fear is very much connected to that of the parents' parents since the very first scenes of the show;
for the love of all that is holy I cannot find this scene but I am SURE that, at one ONE point in season 2, Ethan asks Jim if they will ever see Thomas and his (Ethan's) grandfather again. By linking Thomas with his grandpa I think it's safe to assume that grandpa is dead just like Thomas is. Now it could be Tabitha's father but I think Ethan's talking about Jim's here;
in season 3 when Jim talks with Henry in the bar he mentions that his father was/is (I don't remember but, see above, I think grandpa is dead) an alcoholic. He says this because he recounts the night Julie was born because that night he went to a bar and decided to quit drinking because he didn't want to be like his father;
the link between the Stevens and the Matthews is Julie. Future!Julie saves Boyd by giving him the rope (even if she doesn't know that there's Boyd in that shaft) and Boyd saves Julie in return from whatever happened to her, Randall and Marielle in S2. In a similar fashion, future!Julie will try to save Jim, although she seems to be unsuccessful;
music: Boyd had to destroy the music-box to save Julie and the others and, in so doing, he destroyed his chance to uncover his past (well, this is my hypothesis tbh). On the other hand, music allows Tabitha and Jade to remember and, potentially, to save the children;
Boyd's father, thus Ellis's grandfather had Parkison's and Boyd thinks he has it too;
and now for the meatier part: Jim and the Man in Yellow scene in "Revelations" and Boyd and Smiley scene in "Pas de deux".
The scenes:
In "Pas de Deux" Boyd is faced with a dilemma: his son, Ellis, needs a blood transfusion because he's been wounded by Dale. However, Boyd had been "infected" by Martin ("infected" is such an ugly word but this is the general vibe that I get from the show and I think it's intentional albeit uncomfortable. Sometimes discomfort is important) and doesn't want to "pass it on" to his son. Kenny, Boyd's putative son, steps in and accepts to get whatever Boyd has in his blood "passed on to him" so that Boyd can be free and Ellis can be saved.
Boyd solves the dilemma by going out into the night, slit one of the monsters' throat and pass his blood on to the monster. In a surprising turn of events, the same monster, so-called Smiley, will turn out to be Boyd's SYMBOLICAL nephew. Smiley is what comes out from Fatima's pregnancy and Fatima is Ellis' wife. It's stated in the show multiple times that, before it was revelead that the pregnancy was real/unreal, Boyd would become a grandfather (I mean, of course, but like, mentioning it was meant to focus our attention to Boyd becoming a grandpa, not just an obvious, throwaway line like "oh you'll become a grandpa, you're old haha").
Therefore, when Boyd says to the monster "My blood is your blood now" he wasn't... wrong.
In "Revelations: Part Two" the Man in Yellow appears in the woods, by the RV where Jim and Julie are. He also slits Jim's throat and tells him that "knowledge comes with a cost". Since the previous scene had established that the "monsters" sacrificed their children (the "cost") to gain immortality, I think there's room to see the Man in Yellow as sacrificing his child (the "cost") making Jim the Man in Yellow's son.
My hypothesis is reinforced by all of the above facts but specifically about the scene with Boyd and Smiley in S2 because these two scenes are visually very, very similar. This would be good news because it could mean that Jim can "resurrect" just like Smiley did (hopefully in a different, less gory way).
There's also the element of Future!Julie linking both Boyd and Jim as father-figures to be saved.
Would this make Ethan closer to Ellis/Kenny in terms of narrative function? I don't know, Ethan baffles me because we know from day one that he's a super-key element to "solve" the story but the writers are rightfully doing their best to cover the answers they've disseminated throughout three seasons. So it's not easy to fully understand him but one thing is sure: he's connected to the Man in Yellow by the color yellow.
To sum up: Boyd and Man in Yellow are grandfathers of monsters. They represent the ancestors, if you will. This is the reason why the monsters are so obsessed with Boyd and want to break him. Boyd is the antagonist in the Man in Yellow's immutable, immortal story while he is the protagonist in our story.
Their sons are Ellis/Kenny (whom Boyd didn't want to sacrifice) and Jim (whom the Man in Yellow definitely wants to sacrifice). This also makes Jim and Smiley stand very closely to each other. Julie is Boyd's symbolical daughter and Jim's actual daughter. She managed to save the first at a cost (what happened to her in S2 started because of Boyd) but couldn't save Jim who, in turn, had to bear the weight of the cost of having helped Jade and Tabitha unearth their past.
The show is about reincarnation, generational trauma and children sacrifice. There's an element of "what goes around comes around" that must be stopped or this "cost" will keep be "passed on" from character to character and from parents to children. In other words, the story must be changed,
Mothers are shown to be the ones who are bent on breaking the cycle while fathers seem to keep repeating it because they haven't shared light on their trauma, yet. In this respect, Jim, if he ever makes it out alive, is/was actually closer to Boyd in breaking the cycle. For example, Jim clealry states that he doesn't want to be like his father, while Boyd is shown to believe that he also has Parkison's just like his father had (I insist on the "believe" part because Boyd refuses to be examined by Kristi and says that he "knows he has it" but I think he's being an unreliable narrator here). This makes me think that Boyd is convinced that he will end up just like his father, even if he says that the town won't break him. Perhaps he already feels broken inside. In "spirit" he's much more like the Man in Yellow than Jim is.
In all season finales Boyd is undergound which is a symbol of the unconscious and repressed trauma. A good indicator of whether he's gonna make it to the end alive or not will be to check S4 finale: if Boyd is still shown in an underground, dark place I don't think a happy ending is in for him. Ultra Sad Face.
You might have noticed that my first point (and the show's first introduction of the monsters) is about a grandmother. So how do grandmothers fit in all this?
There are also several grandmothers in the show: Tabitha's mother who we only hear on the phone (just like the Man in Yellow before his appearance); Elgin's grandmother who, I believe, was the person he was supposed to go see when he took that fateful bus; Tillie and her seven grandchildren (just like the number of the angkoohey kids) and, finally, Jim's mother, the piano teacher whose teachings proved to be THE key to solve the numbers' enigma. This brings me to my final point:
Jim's mentioning his mother in "Revelations" reveals that the Man in Yellow is his father (or, rather, his father's reincarnation). Why?
The facts are these II:
the last three scenes of "Revelations" are about remembrance, birth and death. Two parents remember their child, one "child" is born and the grandfather watches his "birth", Jim dies and his child watches him "dying";
the two parents were able to recognize their child because of Jim's mother's teachings;
Boyd watches the birth of his "nephew";
the Man in Yellow kills Jim while Julie watches.
There's a signifier vacuum around Jim in all these scenes: he's a father-figure for sure but right now he's a son, a child. His mother's child. And as one "child" is born... one "child" dies. And this child is Jim. Jim is a sacrificed child. This makes the Man in Yellow his father, because the sacrifice of the town is not about random kids: parents must kill their children. And so the Man in Yellow kills Jim. And so the father sacrifices his child.
In S3 of FROM we got a "I am your child" moment.
In S4 of FROM we'll get a "I am your father" moment.
#posting this for posterity to see if i'm right#this is such good storytelling i hate them#they have to give us a story there the cylce is brokeeeeen. please give us hopeeeee#from tv series#from#from spoilers#from mgm+#from epix#from mgm#from tv#fromily#boyd stevens#jim matthews#julie matthews#man in yellow#from series#from 2022#from season 3#from season 2#revelations#pas de deux#long post
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Two of my favourite shows of the year had significant moments with a yellow outfit. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
#amc interview with the vampire#iwtv#interview with the vampire#amc iwtv#iwtv s2#iwtv claudia#the vampire claudia#claudia de pointe du lac#claudia de lioncourt#delainey hayles#from tv series#from#from tv show#fromily#the man in yellow#from season 3
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“Your wife shouldn’t have dug that hole, Jim.”
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Fromily appreciation post!
As a nearly unified whole, we all watched an episode that ended with stabbing a main character to death and went 🥱
But a man gets put in his place by not one but two men about how shitty he's been to his wife, and we're all like, "fuck yes! This show is amazing!"
It's an unusually beautiful fandom experience! Love ya all.
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