MGM+ ‘FROM’ Season 4 Episode 3 Review - The Lake of Tears

I will start by saying that I am disappointed. The third episode adds almost nothing. It's safe to say this was just a filler episode. I am more disappointed because I didn't expect a filler episode this soon in the season. If you decide to skip this episode and jump directly to the next one, you won't miss anything. The episode begins in the Colony House when Fatima accidentally meets Elgin as he asks to get their story straight, as Fatima asks him for help with something that is not clearly revealed.

The center of this episode revolved around the somber burial and funeral for both Jim and the priest—the man everyone knew as Sophia’s father. But before heading towards the burial, Sophia did something deeply unsettling: she quietly pried a single tooth from her dead father’s mouth in a chilling, private moment.  As the entire town gathered around the graves, a massive flock of crows suddenly descended, encircling the burial site in an eerie, ominous cloud. The episode does not explain the birds’ strange behavior.  

Later in the diner, Kenny casually mentions Sophia —without realizing the weight of his words -that things started to get much worse when the Matthews and Jade arrive in the town. Sophia doesn't waste time revealing to Julie what she thinks. Julie gets upset and shouts over Sophia and asks her mother if it's actually the case that the town had only grown darker and more dangerous after their family showed up.

Meanwhile, Boyd pulls Acosta aside for a tense confrontation, sternly warning her not to repeat her reckless stunt of tearing around town in the ambulance as she did before. He then asks her to dig through the personal belongings left behind by the townspeople, carefully searching for any hidden patterns, untold stories, or overlooked clues that might help. On the other side of town, Julie teams up with Randall and leads him to her old family house, now reduced to a crumbling, collapsed ruin. She asks him to venture inside the wreckage and retrieve a specific blue bag filled with books. The moment turns unmistakably creepy when Randall spots a dead body lying amid the debris—its decaying form now serving as a makeshift home for a mouse that seems to have taken up residence inside it.

The second episode closed on a cliffhanger with Jim quietly mentioning the enigmatic “Lake of Tears” to Ethan, leaving me eager for deeper answers. I was expecting more about it, though we got Ethan trying to find it. Ethan takes Victor's help to find it. On the way, they were both joined by Jade, but their search quickly veers off course. Victor suddenly freezes in terror when he spots a set of yellow clothes discarded on the forest floor—the exact same dress the Man in Yellow had left behind after becoming Sophia. As Ethan and Jade rush to calm the visibly shaken Victor, his father, Henry, and Tabitha arrive on the scene. Tabitha, driven by desperation, is looking for the lighthouse that once helped her escape Fromville. Henry follows close behind, urgently warning her not to do anything reckless that could leave her children alone. Just as she steps toward the tree portal, one of the ghostly children in the white dress materializes and softly warns her that she won’t be able to find it. The boy adds that everything is changing far too quickly… then vanishes.

While the episode wasn’t boring at all, it still felt disappointingly stale, offering no fresh revelations or details we hadn’t already pieced together previously. After Jim’s sudden death, I was really expecting the townspeople to snap out of their daze and become far more vigilant—desperately searching for any possible way out of their trapped existence. Instead, there’s been zero meaningful progress in that direction; everything feels eerily stagnant. Only Ethan seems genuinely driven, actively trying to crack the mystery and solve the puzzle. Jim had always been the most relentlessly curious and proactive soul in the entire town, so now that he’s gone, it looks like his children are the only ones left with the spark to figure out the next steps and push the story forward.

The third episode was mostly filler, adding barely 7-8 minutes of actual story. Now we have to wait for the next one to find out whether the so-called Lake of Tears really exists or if it’s just a metaphor for something else. However, the episode does have a creepy ending.

Final Score - [6/10]