{"id":606140,"date":"2026-04-15T17:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606140\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:26:08","slug":"from-renewed-for-fifth-and-final-season-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606140\/","title":{"rendered":"‘From’ Renewed For Fifth and Final Season (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFor\u00a0From<\/a>,\u00a0the beginning of the end is \u2026 well, beginning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMGM+<\/a> has renewed\u00a0From,\u00a0the supernatural thriller series starring\u00a0Oz\u00a0and\u00a0Lost\u00a0alum Harold Perrineau,\u00a0for a fifth and final season,\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter\u00a0can exclusively confirm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFilmed on location in Halifax, Canada in what the production refers to as \u201cFrom Town\u201d (an actual town built from the ground up specifically for the show),\u00a0From\u00a0centers on a nightmare town with no discernible way in or out. Monsters roam the streets at night, spiders and cicadas and worse stalk the surrounding forest, and existential dread permeates all the townspeople trapped within. What is this place?\u00a0Why\u00a0is this place? And is there really no way to escape? With more mysteries than you can comfortably fit into a box,\u00a0From\u00a0fans (lovingly known as the \u201cFromily\u201d within the fandom) finally stand ready to receive those answers, beginning with season four, premiering April 19.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs the most-watched show on Amazon-owned MGM+, the decision to conclude\u00a0From\u00a0doesn\u2019t come lightly. In fact, according to creator John Griffin, there was some temptation to extend the narrative to a sixth season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere was a fair amount of soul-searching,\u201d he tells\u00a0THR. \u201cBut we all came to the realization that if we made that sixth season, it would be for us, because it\u2019s just too hard to say goodbye.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe long goodbye is already underway, as the writers room is currently open for the final season, with production expected to begin this summer. As that work begins,\u00a0THR\u00a0checked in with the three creative forces who call the shots on all things From Town: creator and executive producer Griffin, executive producer Jeff Pinkner, and executive producer and director Jack Bender. Ahead, they weigh in on the decision to put\u00a0From\u00a0to rest, what fans can expect from the coming fourth season, and more.<\/p>\n

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\n\tJohn, why is now the right time to wind down\u00a0From?<\/p>\n

\n\tJohn Griffin:\u00a0In full transparency, five seasons was always the goal, but we always wanted to let the story tell us when it was time to end. When we reached the end of season three and the death of Jim (Eion Bailey), it felt like we reached the end of the beginning. Similarly, season four very naturally feels like the beginning of the end. We\u2019ve had the opportunity to tell this story from the beginning the way we really wanted to tell it, with the full support of Michael Wright and everybody over at MGM. It\u2019s rare you get to tell this type of story and give it the life you feel it needs, to let the story decide when it\u2019s time to end.<\/p>\n

\n\tJeff, you have worked on some of TV\u2019s most beloved mythology-driven shows:\u00a0Alias, Lost, Fringe, just to name a few. With that experience in mind, what\u2019s your perspective on bringing\u00a0From\u00a0to an end?<\/p>\n

\n\tJeff Pinkner:\u00a0A very smart friend of mine, very early in my career, told me: \u201cTV is about making the audience fall in love with characters, and then watching them suffer.\u201d I think she was right. It\u2019s the foundation of this story, and a lot of the more mythologically-centered television shows I\u2019ve been really fortunate to work on. There\u2019s always a balance between what\u2019s the plot, what are the questions and answers that the audience is asking and seeking, that the\u00a0characters\u00a0are asking, and then there\u2019s the emotional journeys the characters are enduring. What I\u2019ve learned is as much as the audience is watching for the answers to those questions, if a show is only built around that, there\u2019s going to be dissatisfaction at the end. Either the answers are too elusive and frustrating for the audience, or they were too obvious. Ultimately, then, these shows succeed or fail largely on making you fall in love with the characters and where their journeys end up. We\u2019ve designed\u00a0From\u00a0to force these characters to suffer, and they have, and whether they end up victorious \u2014 who\u2019s going to live, who\u2019s going to die, and in what manner are they going to live or die \u2014 I\u2019m unbelievably gratified that the audience has stuck with us to the point that we can tell this tale through to its conclusion.<\/p>\n

\n\tSimilar question for you, Jack. You had your boots on the ground in Hawaii leading\u00a0Lost, and your boots are on the ground in Halifax where you film\u00a0From. When you look at your time with this show, can you pinpoint what\u2019s made it creatively satisfying for you?<\/p>\n

\n\tJack Bender:\u00a0I remember my first phone call with John and Jeff, back when they asked me to join this party. I asked them, \u201cOkay, well, what\u2019s the deal with this town?\u201d And Mr. Griffin, who I had not yet met, started off with a description that made me go, \u201cOh my god, the amount of specificity in his head in terms of what and how and why\u2026\u201d There was one point after about 30 minutes of his nonstop, really smart monologue, where I said, \u201cOkay, here\u2019s my task. I know that we will go down that journey, that all will be revealed, and we have all of that architecture to build on. My job is to make sure we have characters we care about, who we are scared shitless for.\u201d And we ended up doing that. I think that\u2019s one of the reasons people care so much about these kinds of shows, going back to what Jeff said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore the show ends, we\u2019re getting ten new episodes here in season four. What can you say about what\u2019s ahead?<\/p>\n

\n\tPinkner:\u00a0I think season four is our strongest season in every way. From storytelling, performances, the direction, the presentation\u2026 we\u2019re wildly proud of it. What I\u2019ve observed in streaming television as a viewer, is when you watch a narratively driven show, you\u2019re so invested and then so afraid that this story we love may get canceled or end prematurely. Now, allowing our audience to know that they are going to get the ending, it\u2019s only going to increase people\u2019s enjoyment of season four.<\/p>\n

\n\tGriffin:\u00a0This season brings our characters closer to the truth than they ever have been before. In fact, it doesn\u2019t bring them closer.\u00a0It brings them the truth. We see this place push back than it ever has before to direct them down the wrong path.<\/p>\n

\n\tLet\u2019s check in on some of the biggest plot points right now. Season three ends with the reveal that even if the characters manage to kill one of the monsters, the monsters will find a way to come back to life. Boyd (Harold Perrineau) is a firsthand witness to that. Where does that leave him?<\/p>\n

\n\tGriffin:\u00a0Boyd has to come to terms with the realization that he\u2019s no longer a peace-time leader. He\u2019s a war-time leader now, because they really are at war with this place, and going home may require sacrifices he\u2019s not altogether willing to make, because it\u2019s not only himself he\u2019s having to sacrifice \u2014 it\u2019s also the people around him. That\u2019s a struggle that comes with leadership, and it\u2019s a struggle he has to face this season like he never has before.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeason three also ended with a massive reveal: two of the townspeople, Tabitha (Catalina Sandino Moreno) and Jade (David Alpay), have been here before in previous lives, all the way to the very beginning. How does that reveal inform the narrative this season?<\/p>\n

\n\tGriffin:\u00a0Jade and Tabitha are realizing their central role in this place. They both feel a great deal of guilt and responsibility, and those feelings manifest in very different ways for both of them. We\u2019ll see them try to find a way to come together with this knowledge they discovered, to put it to good use.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the season three finale, you killed off your biggest character yet, Jim, by way of introducing a new villain, the Man in Yellow (Douglas E. Hughes). What changes about\u00a0From\u00a0now that you have an official big bad on the board?<\/p>\n

\n\tGriffin:\u00a0For three seasons, we\u2019ve wandered through the dark with our characters, wondering when the boogeyman was going to show himself. To have that happen during such a critical shift, where Jade and Tabitha discovered this knowledge, costing the life of Jim \u2026 the fact that the Man in Yellow steps out of the shadows in that moment not only provides us with a wonderful antagonist, but also, mythologically, it gives us this question: why did he choose\u00a0that\u00a0moment to step forward? Why were those memories for Tabitha and Jade the catalyst for the Man in Yellow\u2019s arrival? This season\u2019s going to answer that.<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m fortunate enough to have spent some time on the\u00a0From\u00a0set, which is so immersive. Jeff, who do we need to talk to in order to keep the town open for visitors after the show ends?<\/p>\n

\n\tPinkner:\u00a0The Canadian Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

\n\tBender:\u00a0If we were a Disney show, you know there would be a\u00a0From\u00a0Land!<\/p>\n

\n\tPinkner:\u00a0You know, this question assumes\u00a0From\u00a0Town is going to survive season five\u2026<\/p>\n

\n\tHigh stakes! Are you feeling those stakes yourselves, as you prepare for this final phase of\u00a0From? Are there any questions you feel you absolutely have to answer before the timer runs out?<\/p>\n

\n\tPinkner:\u00a0We set so much into motion in season one. A lot of seasons four and five are continuing those things we set up, many of which are obvious to the audience, and some of which is not. There are a lot of inevitabilities coming into season five. Our challenge is making sure we tell those stories in the best way we know how. Creating stories is intuitive, it\u2019s done as a team, where the best idea wins. It\u2019s a matter of subjectivity. There\u2019s luck involved. There are things you end up leaving on the table. It\u2019s going to be imperfect, and we will surely have some regrets about what we missed at the end of the day. But our job is to do this as well as we can, forgiving ourselves of the requirement to be perfect. But I\u2019ll say, based on the weeks we have already spent talking in the writers room, I feel very confident the audience will feel honored and respected by the way these stories end. It\u2019s feeling both surprising and inevitable, and we\u2019re being very mindful about the things the audience is curious about, and all the questions that need to be answered.<\/p>\n

\n\tGriffin:\u00a0We love this show. We love the questions the fans have, because we\u2019re asking those same questions ourselves. We\u2019re as excited about answering them as you are about getting the answers. And so I don\u2019t mean this as a cop out: I\u2019m not worried about any one particular reveal or answer. At the end of the day, what I want to ensure is that you miss these characters once they\u2019re gone. When I think about finales, I think about\u00a0Six Feet Under\u00a0and\u00a0Friday Night Lights, these shows that live on for you as a viewer after they\u2019re done. There\u2019s a moment in our show where Tian-Chen (Elizabeth Moy) says, \u201cWe\u2019ll never have these days again.\u201d I\u2019m thinking a lot about that. I want to ensure the emotional experience of season five is not just about \u201cthe ending,\u201d but also about truly saying goodbye to this show.<\/p>\n

\n\tBender:\u00a0And it really does feel like the right time, for all the reasons John articulated. There\u2019s always a goodbye. And the goodbye on the things I\u2019ve loved the most that I have worked on, always comes as a mixed blessing. I feel like we\u2019ve told a wonderful story with an exceptional cast and crew. Now, it\u2019s time to tell another story.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe fourth and penultimate season of\u00a0From\u00a0begins April 19 on MGM+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For\u00a0From,\u00a0the beginning of the end is \u2026 well, beginning.\u00a0 MGM+ has renewed\u00a0From,\u00a0the supernatural thriller series starring\u00a0Oz\u00a0and\u00a0Lost\u00a0alum Harold Perrineau,\u00a0for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,3011,228846,43311,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-606140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-from","12":"tag-harold-perrineau-jr","13":"tag-mgm","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}