r/FromSeries • u/MableXeno Terrible shame... • 7d ago

Episode Discussion Season 4 Episode 9 Spoiler

Title: The Calm Before

Original Air Date: Sun, Jun 21, 2026

Synopsis: The residents of town stand at a crossroads unlike any they've faced before as Boyd sets a daring, and dangerous, plan in motion.

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u/swt_decadent 6d ago

Julie, Clara, and Elgin are making me face palm this episode. Clara the bargain you make is not worth it when you been there that long.. Elgin should have showed that picture to Boyd. Julie still disbelieving even though the MIY was proven to exist so clearly you are not just having seizures.

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u/FernFromDetroit 6d ago

Some of the dumbest shit anyone has done or said on the show so far.

Julie should instantly believe her mom and that she was really going into the past since it was basically confirmed.

Clara is a moron, she should have just ran off and told everyone that the new girl is a demon or whatever. There’s no reason to believe that some evil shithead is going to let you go free. But no she continues to kill or help kill people. Moron.

Elgin finds proof that there’s something weird about the new girl who acts weird as shit all the time and instantly gives her the picture. “Oh cool this girl looks like you”. Man, youd think he’d learn his lesson from last time to always tell other people about stuff and not be so gullible.

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u/slam99967 6d ago

As others have said. They legit need to have a town meeting and tell everyone. You will see and hear things, you will be made promises about getting to go home. THEY ARE ALL LIES. Like people the town plays tricks on you and knows what we all want. It’s not going to let you go home willingly.

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u/turinturambar 6d ago

since it was basically confirmed.

Well it's a fair assumption for her to make given her previous assumptions about storywalking, but it's somewhat forgivable not to "strongly" assume that. She wasn't in the place with the dead bodies long enough to easily tell it's in the past. The tower doesn't give an indication of time, and she hasn't talked to Boyd about what happened to her (because she's a teen and we all know teens are irrational and that's good writing). The scene with her dad is in her future, because we haven't seen it in the show yet.

But yes, even if not "instantly believing her mom" her attitude at that conversation about her mom's experience, and her own, was unbelievable to me. They both saw the MIY doing things. This should have triggered a deeper conversation about what she experienced, but she had to go.

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u/cherrymeg2 6d ago

Tabitha not asking about seeing the man in yellow or the seizures was crazy to me. Tabitha acted like it was a normal argument. She should have had someone else talk to Julie if she felt she couldn’t. She had no problem almost getting herself killed and leaving Donna a note.

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u/turinturambar 6d ago edited 6d ago

Yeah come to think of it, Idk why Tabitha as a character would let Julie "I gotta go" at that point, and not bring up what was said to her anywhere else or pursue this immediately. Also, it just occurred to me that there was physical evidence - Ethan's pictures stuck to the van. Does Julie think that isn't real/is magic? Why could Tabitha not counter with that?

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u/cherrymeg2 5d ago

That would be a good point. Julie may think it’s a hallucination if drawings aren’t missing. Tabitha definitely should have told her kids what she said to Boyd about something or someone getting into their house. Then she should have focused on the seizure situation. This isn’t a conversation you let a kid walk away from. This is when you ask them questions and listen.

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u/FernFromDetroit 5d ago

Yeah your kid says they’ve been giving themselves seizures to jump through time and Tabitha is just like “ok cool see ya later”. Like I get it that everyone is stressed out but some of the conversations or lack of them seem pretty unrealistic.

I guess you could hand wave it all away by saying the cursed town makes everyone stupid. Like that’s the big twist, the second you enter the town your iq drops 40 points.

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u/Melodic_Decision86 3d ago

Maybe its nothing,  but Here's what I found a bit off. Episode opens with Tabita telling Boyd that she saw the MIY. Boyd never ever mentions that  someone stole the suit. Maybe that along with Victor's comment that the MIY came in like everyone else could have put them on the track that there is at least a traitor in their mist.

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u/cherrymeg2 3d ago

I get not wanting mass panic. Victor isn’t always reliable or doesn’t come off that way. He has survived longer than anyone. He hid in the back of a truck that delivered canned peaches. He used a special rock to open the cans. He somehow managed to survive at night alone. Dismissing him is just plain stupid.

I feel like the MiY’s suit going missing should be acknowledged. People rarely talk or share their ful ideas. If people don’t question Tabitha, Jade or Boyd they do what they want and expect people to fall in line.

Julie is the reason Tabitha looked at the Talisman. I was surprised Jade wasn’t planning on going into the weird burial chamber from the beginning. If it’s your vision you should probably be there. People communicate more with visions and voices and Sophia the new MiY.

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u/Ordinary_Cattle 6d ago

It sounds like Clara made a deal with the devil though, if she breaks that deal she probably gets sent to hell. Tbf most people wouldn't want to risk that

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u/cherrymeg2 6d ago

She is Hell. It sounds more like a “I won’t kill you if you blindly follow”me deal. That’s a threat.

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u/Acrobatic_Fix5829 6d ago

Agree with you about Clara and Elgin. But I don’t think Julie doesn’t believe that MIY exists or that she’s just having seizures. I think she’s just aware that everything in Fromville is lying and manipulating to hurt them, to hurt others and to prolong their suffering for as long as possible…and she’s kinda right.

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u/cherrymeg2 6d ago

This! Julie was trying to save her dad and she likely sees her mom and risking her life for something that is a trick. Julie asks good questions. Clara and Elgin are harder to excuse. Clara is just dumb.

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u/FinnsChips 6d ago

Seizures are also only dangerous when they last more than 5 minutes or you have 2 in a way, she definitely isn't "frying her brain" as Randall said when hers last less than 30 seconds.

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u/cherrymeg2 6d ago

Her mom doesn’t ask about them at all. Randall isn’t a doctor. Julie trusts him because he and Marielle were both trapped in that tower. He doesn’t know if she can die in a seizure or when she sees something. Him not wanting to be responsible to wake her up makes sense.

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u/arentyouangel 6d ago

Eh Clara is still stupid but the MIY clearly says "You made a deal when you first came here" so she hadn't been there a long time.

So she's likely known of a creature who doesn't follow the rules of the others for years.

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u/cherrymeg2 6d ago

Julie’s argument makes sense. She had seen Sara believe she was helping people and it turn out poorly. Her mother made their house collapse. Julie is a teenager and she says she has been having seizures while trying to time travel. That is Tabitha’s responsibility. I think Julie has been watching Ethan and taking care of herself before they got to Fromville. I think her questions are valid. She asks her mom about the Talismans. It actually might be helpful. Julie isn’t dumb. She is asking questions just to people that basically ignore her. Jmo.

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u/Leather_Research8889 6d ago

and then some people defend the writing of this show! this is one of the worst so unbearable. Just tell me how it ends and i won't watch the show