From (TV Series) Tether (2023) User Reviews

The show has something, but it needs a lot of improvement

[strutnoodle · 6/10 · 9 May 2023]

The first season was interesting, but the cast is too big. The writing and acting can come across as amateur and even downright immature. For all the swearing, the writing feels juvenile. For all the horror being implied, the show is surprisingly not very gory / scary.

It has something, but the cast is too big and too many of the actors are weak.

Boyd and Victor are the best characters.

The show needs major trimming. 10 episodes is too few to even come close to getting to know these characters or move the plot along.

The acting can be a bit over the top sometimes in a bad way... I love the concept and a few characters are standouts, but if this show wants to succeed and avoid cancellation, it needs to make major changes by the end of this season. Less characters, more episodes per season. I hope MGM is listening.

Tether

[bobcobb301 · 7/10 · 7 May 2023]

From was a strong program in its first season and it has me just as invested so far in the second season. We have added a few new elements to the mix of what is going on with Boyd, the monsters of the night wanting to torment people and now even more ghosts that Tabitha can see during the day.

I don't know how they will wrap this all up, but I hope they have a plan. But this show has me engaged and interested and I look forward to it probably as much as any other show out there each week. I just wish it would be on a better network so other people could start enjoying it just as much as I am.

A Masterful Blend of Intrigue and Emotion

[ameerbarram · 8/10 · 8 July 2023]

From: Season 2 Episode 3 continues to impress with its exceptional storytelling and compelling character development. This episode showcases the series at its finest, delivering a captivating narrative that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats.

The third episode of the season maintains the high standard set by its predecessors, offering a well-crafted and tightly woven storyline. The writing is intelligent and thought-provoking, delving deeper into the complexities of the characters' lives and relationships. The pacing is expertly handled, allowing for moments of tension and introspection to coexist seamlessly.

One of the standout aspects of this episode is the outstanding performances by the cast. Each actor brings a depth and authenticity to their roles, making the characters feel incredibly real and relatable. The chemistry between the cast members is palpable, enhancing the emotional impact of their interactions. The range of emotions conveyed by the actors is truly commendable, drawing viewers into the characters' journeys and making them emotionally invested in their fates.

Visually, From continues to excel with its stunning cinematography. The use of lighting, framing, and camera angles effectively enhances the mood and atmosphere of each scene. The attention to detail in the production design is evident, creating a visually immersive experience that adds depth to the storytelling. The visual effects, when utilized, are seamless and enhance the overall viewing experience.

Furthermore, the soundtrack of this episode is a perfect complement to the narrative. The music heightens the tension and emotion of key moments, effectively drawing viewers further into the story. The sound design is also noteworthy, with crisp and immersive audio that adds to the overall viewing experience.

Best episode yet

[princeoftheair-736-689179 · 9/10 · 5 June 2023]

Not sure what changed, but suddenly the show feels a lot tighter all of a sudden. The girl in the woods plot in this episode was so harrowing in a way that I haven't felt before. I was legitimately shook by how it resolved, and I never feel that way watching a TV show. The slow moving monsters never felt truly scary before, but they seem to be evolving (along with the prisoners' relationship with them) and the implications of that raise the stakes and pick up the momentum. I was really unsure about the introduction of a busload of people at the end of the last season, however it has completely thrown the community into disarray, which is a good thing. My impression of the first season was really lukewarm since I didn't buy into the premise that people would discover what is essentially a magic world then decide to give up and just live a boring life in this town. Not anymore.

Going nowhere

[yurirbarreira · 1/10 · 13 May 2023]

Nothing really happened in the 50 minutes of this episode, same ol same ol. Victor is on to something but never wants to talk about it, or think about it, or anything about it and pretty much just walks away everytime someone asks something. Plot keep adding more questions and never really solving anything, does ring a bell if you ever watched Lost. Seems like writing is leading us on a path of only adding more characters and then milking them off and adding some more and killing them off again. Nothing in the main plot has evolved anywhere at all and this season have had only filler episodes since the beginning.

The Whole Kristi Relationship...

[Mehki_Girl · 5/10 · 13 May 2023]

Don't care about their same sex relationship... What's annoying is the change in her demeanor from a strong, self-assured person to this whimp with her nasty gf.

What the heck are the writers doing? Like others have noticed, the writers have changed everyone's personalities.

It's ridiculous. The gf got there the same way Kristi got there, so where's the understanding, Why the blame? Why no empathy, no acknowledgment that she had no idea that she was stuck in hell and in danger night after night after night and unable to contact me or your family! And why is Kristi being all whimpy and putting up with her crap, instead of freaking telling her, hey, you're in the same boat I'm was in! We're both stuck! Obviously, it was not my fault, so cut your bs. It's not making anything easier for you or me! This solves nothing! Be glad I'm alive!

If anyone is acting that this is normal is the stupid gf bringing drama into a surreal situation instead of asking Kristi questions!

Really bad writing, because no one would act this way except a narcisstist, not the love of anyone's life!

Frustrating!

[ecsecs-91225 · 2/10 · 12 May 2023]

Admittedly the premise and concept of this show is very unique and interesting. The life and death nightly danger these people are faced with should make this a must watch. Problem is the writers for this show had no interest in creating believable characters that you root for or an interesting plot.

Why is it every single person in this town uniquely insufferable (including the new comers)! The constant hysterics, saying and doing the opposite of what you'd expect in their situation, and the check box approach to casting and not the ability to act plagues every episode. The dialog, tedious boring drivel, to the point that you pray every conversation would end with them dying a horrible death. And when receiving new comers, the existing townspeople should simply articulate the situation as any normal person would. Those conversations are golden opportunities for a writer and director to create masterful scenes. Not holding them at gunpoint with and over abundance of hysterics and wild gibberish "sigh". The Sheriff, you call this a leader? The constant second guessing, lack of discipline, mood swings, half measures, desire to go on long walks after sundown, or a shred of common sense. And does he have to wide eye draw his gun on everybody he meets for the first time? Well except for the guy chained to a wall. Even then he was hyper focused on setting him free instead of trying to figure out what was going on from someone who clearly knew. Actually he does get bossy for no reason from time to time so maybe that's why he's in charge.

In regards to this season's current progression, the overall plot is going no where fast! This series is no more that a constant cycle of bad decisions, boring conversations, and over dramatized hysterics executed with terrible acting. Season 2, three episodes in and still, no insight into where they are, who are the night monsters, what entity controls them, why can't they enter the house with those special stones hanging, why can't the towns people leave.... just ZERO answers to any major question the show poses to the audience. Even more frustrating, they keep adding on mini mysteries that don't get solved or explained either. Overall they've taken the laziest approach to this series, create a great setting but fill it with random events to kill time and manufacture episodes. This is eerily similar to LOST and we all saw how that big mystery box to nowhere ended. Well that's an experience not worth reliving, time to put this show out of its misery.

It's Lost All Over Again

[goniometer · 2/10 · 11 May 2023]

Stop it...just, stop it. Enough of the shows that go nowhere. We're up to the 3rd episode of the 2nd series and we are no closer to learning anything about the protagonists. They show up at night, do their thing and disappear. You would think the writers would drop a hint or 2 by now for the viewers just to keep them interested, but nothing.

Apparently this show was made by some of the same people that gave us 'Lost', it shows. Episode after episode without any storyline progression. Even the characters in the show, with the exception of the sheriff, don't seem to be interested in solving the mystery. Let's just keep doing the same thing night after night. Well, that story line gets tired very quickly.

It's a shame, despite the lack of activity from the townspeople, the first series showed us something different. Bye bye 'From', no more for me.

What has happened to this show?

[jamosmonk · 3/10 · 9 May 2023]

Seriously, the first season was something new and interesting. The characters were different and intriguing and so many questions! Now it is as if none of the original writers are writing these episodes. The characters are acting a little different and as if their IQs have all dropped below 70. Not a single question has been answered and more questions have arisen. The existing townsfolk are all acting like it's their first night in town. They had set up a sort of societal order and everyone knew their job. Now the people are nonsensical and erratic and have regressed their communication skills to the level of a 12 year old. Keep hoping it will improve to the quality of the 1st season... hope is slim or none. I heard slim was killed by the vampires.

Extremely boring

[besirustemi · 1/10 · 14 May 2023]

We are witnessing how you can just destroy an entire concept slowy and slowy.

We as watchers are more interested in developing situations and storyline. Rather than that, just spinning us as hamsters on a wheel and not ariving anywhere is frustrating.

Please if you offer us next seasons and plan on doing them please be more target oriented. And please change the intro song. It is the most irritating song that i have ever heard in my life, i do not have proper words to explaing it.

Finally, acting is good and proper but just as mentioned above be more target oriented and flowing. Watching 3 or 4 episodes and feeling like you watched nothing is not nice.

Sees Something Doesn't Say Anything

[charlieedmond · 5/10 · 26 June 2023]

This just tells me, that there are specific characters being kept alive for no reason. Their decisions make no sense within the context they find themselves as well as based on their previous decisions. It's almost as though someone else wrote their character compared to the first season.

Bare in mind, this is about one specific character not a generalization.

It boggles my mind, that this character is more aware of the dangers than anyone else and doesn't say anything to THE RIGHT PEOPLE. Instead this knowledge is used to just reiterate on their background which already been established and fleshed out. This is the route towards dead writing, I hope this was merely a mistake and is not something to expect going forward in the show.

Dead end characters should be killed off or become a supporting character.

TERRIBLE Writing by people who have no idea how humans behave!

[leecarnaby · 3/10 · 30 July 2023]

I loved the initial idea of this. A village caught in a supernatural loop, people trapped and enable to escape because they keep arriving back where they left. Into that add fantastically creepy ghouls, with great CGI - smiling as they eviscerate you. I really thought it was going to be something original and scary.

Unfortunately, that didn't optimism didn't last long. Season 1 started to go downhill, season 2 is just terrible. In-between the tension and atmospheric scenes, we have the same old awful nonsensical filling. Practically all the characters are unlikeable social misfits with no idea how to act like functional humans. They behave in ways which defy logic, common sense and any type of rational behaviour. Episode 3 finally did it for me. I just can't stand it, and had to write this to vent my steam!

A bus arrives, and they all stand out in the rain for some reason instead of waiting in the bus - some of the residents arrive and as they try to calm the strangers and explain the situation, the "leader" turns up with a shotgun and shoots the tyre to they can't drive off. A house collapses on three people, one of whom tells them they can't carefully clear the wreckage, in case it collapses further. So instead - they leave them overnight trapped and in agony - without any protection from the flesh eating ghouls, to take their chances. WHAT?! Who wouldn't take the risk faced with those options. Sure enough, one gets eaten alive, one dies in agony of his injuries.

Then there's the boring love plot lines, a dull lesbian love story shoe-horned into the episodes, another tedious relationship which seems to be going nowhere - just filling time. The iron-girder which broke the camels back for me was the poor girl being found alive with the thin metal bar through her head, impaled into a tree. They fetch the doctor (about as much use as a chocolate fireguard), who basically writes her off, and tells her she's going to die. Nice bedside manner.

The other "leader" then arrives and decides, contrary to all logical thinking, that the best way to deal with it is to just rip it out of her head. This he does while she screams in agony - killing her horribly. WHAT?! How about using a hack saw, which they had - to cut through it and get her back to the village so they can at least give her a fighting chance?! People have survived injuries like this, what they did made absolutely zero sense and anyone with half a brain cell and rudimentary medical training could see it was the worst possible choice.

I'm done with it now, it's no good for my blood pressure!

Is there a story ?

[rayanrn-09740 · 5/10 · 27 June 2023]

The problem with this show is that its not moving anywhere regarding the plot , a guy watching ep5 season 1 have almost the same informations you got even after reaching S2E3 , they spend too much minutes on side characters that are not important in anyway ! , just like all these people from the bus , why they are here ? I think just to waist much more time instead of focusing on the story, if there is one !

Boyd is my favourite but why we watched 5 episodes of him walking outside and then return just like that without anything that can improve the plot , they saw a lighthouse, ok then what ?? This show is soo weird in term of writing.

alright

[Lythas_85 · 5/10 · 16 December 2023]

It starts with the son grilling the father.. it is funny how the son is second guessing the guy.. after all they have been through.. is it too crazy to think the guy teleported after Sarah pushed him into a tree??

I forgot the previous episode was crazy with the women there going crazy and hysterical.. i think the mother was not freaking out that much like others have said.. however the daughter.. I would understand the reflex of trying to get out of the diner to save him but dropping to the floow and whimping? Wat?

Fatima, on the other hand, should have been much more level headed and almost getting the sheriffs son killed? I was wating for him to slap her... or donna the old lady to do the same to julie, the daughter of stuck in the debris guy..

i guess nowadays it is like that, either we get super ms marvel female characters with buffoon as males... or over the top hysterical women.. it would make sense to be like that for example, a mother finding her son butchered or whatever but the teen daughters reaction when she heard the screams.. come on now..

like another reviwer said.. victor seems to know a lot about what is going on... and I always remember that Chandler quote (RIP Matthew Perry) "I have a dream... but i dont wanna talk about it".. its like that.. the guy just walks away... make it make sense..

anyway.. the premise of the show is great.. the mystery is compelling but everything was to set up makes no sense.. the mathews family getting into town was a great introductory episode but everything else after it... was just going downhill like the writers didnt know what to do with the show..

i dont know.. make half of the people just accepting their fate and maybe having a secret.. of worshipping some demon or whatever.. and the other side with people trying to get out of town, actively trying to find out where they are and stuff.. and little by little getting to know what is going on in town.. but we are up to the third episode and so far.. nothing really happened..

i think the kind of meta thing that made sense was boyd talking to his wife's grave was hin asking the chained marine how he knew the wife's name.. yeah.. not only that we were wondering about but how the dude was able to throw a rope into the well too.. that was crazy..

sheriff telling them to leave and chick saying she wouldnt... dude, just slap her into sense and make her leave.. that whole thing she has with blondie.. as soon as she found out about the crazyness of the place, she should be done with the nagging on the spot.. no?

Oh yeah.. boyd not telling donna what happened in the forest.. just like victor getting away and doing the same... and also the mother at least she told her son and daughter she was seeing ghosts.. people in this show tend to avoid communication for some reason.

Alright so sarah was there in the basement of the church...... just staying there? Ok never mind...

another boring episode.. as usual...