Revelations: Chapter One

This used to be a show I was hooked on. The first two sessions were no masterpiece, but the central mystery was intriguing enough to overlook the show's obvious faults. In season 3 however, it's become a hate watch: the scripts are absolute rubbish, the dialogue is laughably repetitive, no progress is made whatsoever... and yet here I sit, sighing and groaning and swearing all the way through.

I find it's best to watch this season on two screens: have the show running on one screen and do some simple administrative chore on the other one. A glance on the "From" screen every two minutes is all you need to be able to follow it.

I like mystery shows and I love slow-burn character-driven shows... but "From" is neither of those anymore. The writers have clearly lost control of the mystery, and despite the fact they've now had 29 episodes to flesh out the characters, everyone is still as one-dimensional as in the pilot episode. (Some, like Donna, have actually lost nuance. God knows how they've managed that.) It's just a sub-par soap series now. Every moment now, Joan Collins may step out of the woods and whip the town into shape with a few haughty zingers.

Frankly, I hope this show gets cancelled. It's insulting the intelligence of the viewer. Make it stop. Deliver us from (at least) this evil. Let it die in peace.

Oh, man... what's up with the rating? I know the previous episodes were straight-up fillers, but people went and rated this episode like it was a masterpiece... Once again, yes, this episode was better than the fillers we've been having, but here we are, another hour went by with something that could have been done in 30 minutes or less. I don't fancy the chances of this show reaching five seasons like they said they would. Not like this. I loved the first season; it got me hooked instantly. I thought the second season was mostly boring compared to the first season, and only the final episode gave something good. So, obviously, the start of the third season delivered something new and exciting, only to later flood the season with fillers. Now, here we are again, reaching the end of another season, and things are building up again. But if this is the plan going forward, it's not good writing. It's bad and stretched out for more episodes and seasons.

I still wonder why this episode was titled 'revelations'? If anyone could tell me what things have been revealed in this one-hour snooze fest of nothingness, please I'd be pleased to listen to you.

The characters are gradually becoming the caricatures of themselves, I don't know what has gone wrong from the very good first season to the total mess the 3rd season is, but the dramatization, the tension and feeling of impending doom lurking at every corner have completely vanished.

Having your actors constantly screaming, running aimlessly in the woods, violently arguing and bursting into tears like fearful toddlers REALLY doesn't help! It is absolutely utterly annoying, and it has nothing to do with building TENSION or DRAMATIZATION.

This show has lost its direction, and it has become more than obvious for any acute viewer to see.

I need to firstly start with the fact that I have loved the series from the beginning. Great storyline, great concept great characters.

But season three has been a bit muddled to say the least, this episode I particular just feels like everyone is just yelling at each other and accomplishing nothing.

You've turned our characters into people that are just argumentative and combative, no camaraderie, no problem-solving, no moving forward with the story at all.

I feel like the last couple episodes have been filler, trying to draw out the season while the writers trying to decide what they're gonna do next.

The first four episodes were good, but after that, the show started dragging and wasting time with discussions we already know. It's a clear attempt to stretch things out for the viewers.

Pointless discussions and meaningless events, and then you add an important 5 minutes at the end just to hype us up and keep us watching?!

What happened to this show?

Why is this happening?!

The entire episode has nothing important except the last 5 minutes!

Stop destroying this show and make the events more logical and engaging. The audience deserves better content than this mess!

It's Very bad and disappointing.