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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: While talking with Bakta the bus driver, Jade tries to alleviate her guilt over driving her passengers into the town by snarking that if they were riding a bus their lives probably weren't all that good to begin with. He immediately apologizes for it as a bad joke, but after a moment the driver starts laughing.

* ArcSymbol: The broken circle with several lines going through it that Jade keeps seeing in his visions.

* DeadPersonConversation: When Boyd starts having hallucinations in Season 2, he has several conversations with the deceased [[spoiler: Father Khatri]].

* {{Cliffhanger}}: The Season 1 finale ends with [[spoiler: Victor and Tabitha fleeing the creatures in their underground tunnels, Boyd trapped in a shaft in an unknown location, and a bus arriving in town]].

While on a road trip, the Matthews family inadvertently crash their RV and find themselves in a strange small town in middle America. As it turns out, anyone who enters the town is unable to leave, which is a very bad thing as every night mysterious shapeshifting creatures come out of the woods to kill anyone they can find. The townsfolk are protected only by a set of mysterious talismans. The town has divided into two factions: the main township, led by Sheriff Boyd Stevens (Creator/HaroldPerrineau), and the Colony House, a commune led by Donna (Elizabeth Saunders).\\
The second season aired April 23, 2023.\\

* AgentScully: Deconstructed. The primary reason so many people die on the first night is because of their refusal to accept anything but a logical explanation for the explicitly supernatural conundrum they have found themselves trapped in, resulting in actions that puts both themselves and everybody around them at risk. When a bus full of new people arrive in Season 2, Donna has no choice but to force as many passengers as she can into the diner ''at literal gunpoint'' before nightfall hits because there is absolutely no way for her to explain to them what is going on [[CassandraTruth without coming off as a complete lunatic]].

* BigDamnReunion: Season 2 premiere "Strangers in a Strange Land" has Kristi and her fiancée Marielle (who is one of the passengers of the bus that arrived the town in the season 1 finale) tearfully hug each other when they reunite after they haven't seen each for months due to Kristi being trapped in a mysterious town.

** Jim starts sliding into this mindset in Season 2, when he convinces himself that the town and everything in it is a GovernmentConspiracy to study how people react to stress. In his case, it's because of his desperate need to rationalize the situation and inability to simply accept the impossibility of everything involved in it.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The fact that Kristi's fiancé Marielle happened to be on the bus that arrives in town. Several of the others note the oddity of that happening, when no one else's loved ones have ever showed up.

* DrivenToSuicide: Frank chooses to let himself be put defenseless in the Box and left out for the monsters to kill him because he can't live with himself after the death of his family. [[spoiler:Sure enough, he's killed during the night by one of the creatures.]]

** The town. People arrive in it on the same road from all over the country, it's a ClosedCircle that can't be exited once entered, all the buildings have power despite the lack of a power grid (or even actual wires in the power cables), and of course, there's the monsters that come out every night [[spoiler: from tunnels under the town]] to kill everyone they come across.
** The forest surrounding the town as well. The monsters emerging from it every night already makes it supernatural, but exploring it just brings up more mysteries -- on his first extended exploration, Boyd discovered a ruined structure composed of stones that repel the creatures from buildings when hung from a doorway. Later, he and [[spoiler: Sara]] find their tent moved by something overnight, ending up in a grove covered in giant spiderwebs, wherein Boyd sees what appears to be his dead wife suspended in a cocoon, before they later stumble across [[spoiler: a giant lighthouse]]. And there's also the matter of the "Farway" trees, large hollow trunks that will teleport whoever enters them to a random location.

* TheFairFolk: The monsters' demonic forms bear a very close resemblance to [[http://gotireland.com/2012/10/24/irish-faerie-folk-of-yore-and-yesterday-the-sluagh/ sluagh]], creatures from Irish mythology who can be avoided by "running (or staying) in doors after dark, or by not tempting fate walking alone in secluded, unpopulated areas (dark forests, empty streets, etc)".

* ForcedToWatch: One of the new arrivals on the bus is pinned to a tree by the creatures with a piece of rebar and forced to watch as they torture her boyfriend to death.
* {{Gorn}}: The series showcases a lot of grotesque violence. Special mention goes to Laurie and Meagan's corpses, which have been viciously ripped open and gutted, and [[spoiler:Sara's murder of Toby by first slamming a screwdriver through his throat, after which you can clearly see it in his mouth when he gags in agony, and then her further mutilation of his body to make it look like the creatures had done it]].

* TheLostLenore: Boyd's wife underwent SanitySlippage after their arrival in town, until finally [[spoiler: he had to kill her to stop her shooting rampage]].

* MistakenForPedophile: Victor gets this twice from Jim, who first thinks he's luring Ethan out into the woods to do something unsavory to him (and threatens to beat him for it until Victor retaliates by pulling a gun), and then the second when Julie talks about how she went to Victor's room during [[spoiler:the monsters' attack on Colony House - she was actually up there because to escape the embarrassment of romantic rejection from Fatima.]]

* NiceDayDeadlyNight: The very plot of the show. The characters are trapped into a pocket dimension or parallel world, where during the day is very nice and peaceful, but during the night, all kind of horrible monsters that can shapeshift start to hunt everyone whom they get outside of their houses.

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Victor, who has been in the town the longest and seen horrible things such as a street full of eviscerated victims [[spoiler: including his mother and sister]], and communicates with the Boy in White and his dog. It's left him pretty traumatized and mentally childlike, although he occasionally shows moments of lucidity, like when he [[spoiler:helps Julie escape Colony House when it's being attacked by the monsters.]]

** Seen during [[spoiler:the monsters' attack on Colony House. One member gets a few drops on his arm, then looks up to see a monster grinning down at him with Trudy's blood dripping off his chin.]]
** Jade also has this happen to him while he's exploring the outer edges of the forests and hallucinates a [[spoiler:dead and mutilated Civil War soldier hanging in the tree dripping blood onto his arms and face]].

** Just ''barely'' averted with [[spoiler:Tabitha, who feels the need to respond to every one of Victor's warnings to stay quiet so they don't wake "them"[[note]]the sleeping monsters[[/note]] with a loud "What?! Why?! Wake who?! Where are we going?!"]]

While on a road trip, the Matthews family inadvertently crash their RV and find themselves in a strange small town in middle America. As it turns out, anyone who enters the town is unable to leave, which is a very bad thing as every night mysterious shapeshifting creatures come out of the woods to kill anyone they can find. The townsfolk are protected only by a set of mysterious talismans. The town has divided into two factions: the main township, led by Sheriff Boyd Stevens (Creator/HaroldPerrineau), and the Colony House, a commune led by Donna (Elizabeth Saunders).
The second season aired April 23, 2023.

In April 2022, the series was renewed for a second season, which began airing April 2023.

* MistakenForPedophile: Victor gets this twice from Jim, who first thinks he's luring Ethan out into the woods to do something unsavory to him (and threatens to beat him for it until Victor retaliates by pulling a gun), and then the second when Julie talks about how she went to Victor's room during [[spoiler:the monsters' attack on Colony House - she was actually up there because she had seen Fatima kissing someone else and was jealous.]]

* BisexualLoveTriangle: Paramedic Kristi and Deputy Kenny have unrequited feelings for each other, but she and Kenny can't be together because she still has a fiancée who is a woman. Things get complicated when Kristi's fiancée Marielle (who is one of the bus passengers) arrives at the mysterious town where Kristi and Kenny are.

''From'' (2022-present) is an American SciFiHorror series created by John Griffin and produced by Creator/TheRussoBrothers. The series airs on Creator/{{ePix}}.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: At the climax of "Pas de Deux", Boyd seemingly kills (or at least incapacitates) one of the creatures by using his blood to transfer his mysterious parasitic infection to it.]]

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Victor, who has been in the town the longest and seen horrible things such as a street full of eviscerated victims, and communicates with the Boy in White and his dog. It's left him pretty traumatized and mentally childlike, although he occasionally shows moments of lucidity, like when he [[spoiler:helps Julie escape Colony House when it's being attacked by the monsters.]]

* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: The creatures are heavily implied at being this in the episode "Belly of the Beast", when Kristi performs an autopsy on the creature Boyd killed and discovers its internal organs are ''human'', albeit shriveled and desiccated.]]

* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: In the episode "Belly of the Beast", Kristi performs an autopsy on the creature Boyd killed and discovers its internal organs are human, albeit completely dried up and desiccated.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Breaking the rules of the town leads to one being left outside during the night in order to be killed by the creatures. The "cruel" part is that the monsters don't kill their victims quickly - they like to make it last.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: At the climax of Episode 2x06, Boyd seemingly kills (or at least incapacitates) one of the creatures by using his blood to transfer his mysterious parasitic infection to it.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Pretty much ''everyone'' in town is pissed at Boyd for [[spoiler: hiding Sara's return from the rest of them, as well as refusing to punish her for her various actions.]] Kenny in particular is furious after he learns that Sara caused his father's death and that Boyd never told him.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: At the climax of S2E6, Boyd seemingly kills (or at least incapacitates) one of the creatures by using his blood to transfer his mysterious parasitic infection to it.]]

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Victor, a member of the Colony House, is a very strange man, spending all his time drawing creepy pictures and measuring the trees to see if they've moved. Of course, his behavior is rather justified by the fact that he's been in the town longer than anyone, ever since he was a small child.

* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Jade is a rich prick whose only concern is figuring out a way out of the town [[ItsAllAboutMe for his own sake]], and expects everyone to do whatever he asks to help him. But he also strikes up an unlikely friendship with Tian [[spoiler: and helps her deal with her husband's death.]]

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Victor, who has been in the town the longest and seen horrible things such a street full of eviscerated victims, and communicates with the Boy in White and his dog. It's left him pretty traumatized and mentally childlike, although he occasionally shows moments of lucidity, like when he [[spoiler:helps Julie escape Colony House when it's being attacked by the monsters.]]

In April 2022, the series was renewed for a second season, which is set to begin airing on April 23, 2023.