Watched the latest episode of Season 4 of "From" over the weekend and, to put it mildly, I'm disappointed... because we'll have to wait a long time for the final season!

This time, the creators of the project didn't introduce action very quickly at the beginning, but instead gave more dialogue and rather scattered breadcrumbs. In the final episode of Season 4, they tied it all together, and immediately killed off several important [in my opinion] characters! Their stories, it seems to me, are very intriguing, so this move was unexpected.
But the finale clearly allowed the show's creators to make a strong setup for a big showdown in the first episodes of Season 5.

I've already read various theories about the series finale on Reddit. The most popular [and reasonable, in my opinion]:
— That it's all hallucinations and a dream of one of the characters [has been circulating for a long time]
— That the town is a platform for government experiments on endurance and mental strength [has been circulating for a long time]
— That it's a place between death and life, like a limbo [has been circulating for a long time]

I also read that there's a version where some believe the fantasy element is not such a direct metaphor. And everything that happens—reincarnations, different generations of residents, and generational sins—is a convention that must be accepted. In that case, the town is a place of atonement for guilt or the completion of a deal with the devil [the man in the yellow suit]. Past sectarian residents sacrificed 7 out of 8 promised children to the devil, and until the 8th child is offered, the situation will not be resolved. And logically, the 8th child should be Victor or Ethan [since Tabitha is their "common" mother, and her soul lives through generations].
And the residents always killed "Jade and Tabitha" before, because they interfered with the child sacrifices, causing the whole cycle to start over.

And the man in the yellow suit himself is an evil version of that boy who was not killed by some of the first settler-sectarians. And the evil of this town turned him into a monster.
The boy in white clothes who helps Victor is the remnants of innocence of that only surviving boy from the past.

Well, this last version with the sect, the deal with the devil, and the sacrifices sounds like the most likely one, in my opinion.

I really want to know how they will end this story. And how they will explain the coma storyline of Marielle, Randall, and Julie in Season 3. Right now, it seems like they are trying to hint that it's just a normal way of this town to drive people crazy. And these three are not chosen, they were just unlucky. But I would like this Chekhov's gun to fire meaningfully, not in vain.
And overall, I would like the series not to suffer the fate of "Lost", since its creators are at the helm.

Though, for me, the biggest mystery is still how such intricate stories are born in people's minds. There are, of course, many similar examples, and I'm curious how these people's brains work. Do they start writing the story from the end or from the beginning?

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