‘FROM’ Season 4, Episode 5 Recap And Review: The Windmills Of Your Mind

InnovationGaming‘FROM’ Season 4, Episode 5 Recap And Review: The Windmills Of Your MindByErik Kain,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture.Follow AuthorMay 17, 2026, 05:52pm EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.FROMCredit: MGM+So far, the fourth season of MGM+ hit TV show, From, has given us an incredible first half. This may be the strongest this series has been since Season 1. We’re still a long ways off from understanding the full picture of what exactly is going on in Fromville, but the show is giving us enough clues to start piecing together working theories.The primary characters – Jade, Tabitha, Boyd, Donna, etc. – are also doing a pretty outstanding job of actually talking to one another, telling each other what they know and working together to figure out what to do. That alone is a huge improvement over previous seasons. They’re also listening to characters like Ethan and Victor and taking what they have to say seriously. Spoilers ahead.The Lake In The WoodsFROMCredit: MGM+When Donna, Tabitha, Ellis, Ethan and two of the townsfolk (Patty and Roger) pull the corpses in from the lake, it turns out they’re not corpses at all, but rather life-sized dolls that look a lot like scarecrows. My initial thought was that they were actually scarecrows, used to fend off the menacing birds that visited the funeral earlier this season.Donna thinks maybe they were put in the lake to keep something from coming out, used as a sort of ward against a submerged evil. So they load them with (obviously fake) rocks and dump them back in. Too bad Donna didn’t see the Season 4 trailer for this show, which clearly revealed some kind of scarecrow monster at the settlement. Too bad Tabitha’s memories don’t come to her sooner also. She remembers being a young girl playing dolls that...