FROM Kills Off Two Major Characters in Season 4 Finale SPOILER WARNING: Major spoilers ahead for the Season 4 finale of FROM. You have been warned.
- Klep Napier
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By Klep Napier | Wearecritix.com
There is a specific kind of grief that comes with losing a character you have spent seasons arguing about. Not the clean, expected kind of loss. The kind that hits you sideways because somewhere between the theories and the memes and the debates, you forgot to protect yourself from actually caring.
FROM did that to us in the Season 4 finale. Twice.
Elgin and Murielle are gone. And if you watched that finale and felt something shift in your chest, you were not alone. CritiX sat down with Nathan Simmons and Kaelyn Ohn to talk about what it all meant and what it actually felt like to live inside those final moments.
The Town Did Not Choose Elgin. It Used Him.
From his very first episode, Elgin felt different. There was a pull to him, a spiritual magnetism that the show leaned into hard enough that fans spent entire seasons building theories around it. Was he special? Was he protected? Did the town choose him for a reason?
Nathan Simmons has been sitting with those same questions. His answer is more unsettling than any fan theory.
The connection was real. But so was the manipulation. Simmons described it as a bug flying too close to a light, unable to see the spider web waiting just beyond the glow. The town did not choose Elgin because it loved him. It chose him because it could use him. His connection to this place was never a gift. It was a leash.
What makes the finale land so hard is that Elgin finally sees it. After seasons of being pulled, guided and manipulated by forces bigger than himself, he rejects it. One last act of will in a place that has been stripping people of exactly that since the very first episode.
It costs him everything. But it was his.
Nobody Gave Murielle a Fair Shot. The Finale Did.
Kaelyn Ohn will be the first to tell you that Murielle was not exactly fan favorite material coming in. She arrived with complicated history, questionable choices and the unfortunate distinction of being the woman who came between Christie and Kenny, which in the FROM fan base is basically a federal offense.
But the show was always doing something quieter with Murielle. Season by season, in moments that did not always announce themselves, it was building a case for her heart. Her relationship with Fatima. Her fierce if messy loyalty to the people around her. The chaos was always covering something real.
The finale made that case out loud. And it stuck.
Watching Murielle die in Christie's arms is the kind of scene that earns its emotion the hard way, through everything that came before it. Ohn talked about the challenge of playing a death that feels true, the speed of television that leaves no room to overthink and the way her scene partner Chloe came in completely open and raw and made something happen that neither of them could have planned.
"You hope that you can have moments of magic where everything just kinda works," Ohn said.
It worked.
Want the full conversation? Watch our exclusive sit-down with Nathan Simmons and Kaelyn Ohn over on the CritiX YouTube channel. They go deeper, they get real and yes, it is worth every minute.
On Set With FROM's Most Terrifying Faces
Here is something nobody tells you about working with nightmare fuel in human form. Apparently it depends entirely on who is wearing the mask.
Nathan Simmons had nothing but warmth for Julia Sofia, whose character delivered one of the season's most chilling moments opposite Elgin. Off camera she is, by his account, genuinely funny. The kind of actor who keeps the energy light between takes and then drops into something completely different the moment the camera rolls.
Simmons called working with her a pleasure. He was less enthusiastic about the Man in Yellow, who he did not share scenes with but apparently kept his distance from on instinct alone.
Kaelyn Ohn had no such buffer. Her final moments put her face to face with the Smiley Guy and she wants you to know that nobody on that set was acting scared. The terror was simply there, compliments of Jamie, who transforms so completely into that character that when he opened a door on Ohn and her co-star Pegah mid-shoot, both of them screamed at a volume that surprised everyone including the camera crew. It was not in the script. It was not a performance. It was just real.
What It Feels Like to Watch Yourself Die
Both Nathan Simmons and Kaelyn Ohn watched their death scenes back. Both admitted it was a lot.
Simmons watched his a few times. He described it as creepy in the best possible way, surreal and a little unsettling in that specific way that comes from watching something deeply personal play out on screen. He also noted, almost as an aside, that his was one of the goriest moments in FROM history. Which tracks.
Ohn's moment is something else entirely. Quieter. More devastating. The kind of scene that does not need gore because it already has everything. She watched it back and felt it hit her the same way it hit the rest of us.
There are not many shows that can make you mourn a character you spent two seasons arguing about. FROM just did it twice in one episode.
Elgin and Murielle deserved better than this town ever gave them. The finale, at least, gave them the send-off they earned.
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