From echoes Lost with a flash-sideways style twist

From has been compared extensively to Lost, sharing a premise of strangers stranded in an isolated place where new threats and mysteries appear. One difference has been that From seems more mapped out while Lost was criticized for losing momentum and coherence, but Season 4, Episode 7 blurs that line by introducing a twist reminiscent of Lost's final season.

Henry, already spiraling after discovering the Man in Yellow cannibalized his wife and relapsing into alcoholism, experiences visions of himself strapped to a heart monitor in a luxurious bedroom with his son Victor tending to him. The eerie sight of Victor in a suit and the way Henry is tugged between that image and his surroundings raises the possibility of an alternate timeline where Fromville doesn't exist — a setup that brings to mind Lost's flash-sideways and recalls Tabitha waking in a hospital outside the town in Season 3.

Lost's flash-sideways was divisive in its sixth season, so From risks a similar backlash if the idea overwhelms the storytelling.

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