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[Thoughts on First Watch] From 3x1 - Shatter

Published February 9, 2026

What the hell is this?

This is an overall dump of my thoughts during my first time viewing of From's third season's first episode, Shatter.

And now for my notes.

Tabitha, girl, what the fuck are you doing? What's escaping the hospital going to accomplish? Unless you don't think this is a real hospital? You don't have money or ID or anything, what exactly are you planning to do? You don't even know where you were found!

Oh, great, the little boy is still haunting you. And you just stepped out into traffic to chase him. A great sign!

Titles still haven't changed.

Everyone's talking to all kinds of dead people. But it's not fair that the sheriff gets two!

Christ on the cross, dipshit Jim is now abandoning his children because "they need a mom." Go out into the woods and die, you shits-for-brains.

Yeah, no offense, Fatima, but you need to go vomit outside. You can't hog the toilet when there's like 30+ residents.

Jade, honey, what are you doing?

Tabitha's only call is to her mom. How is that helpful? How is that more helpful than talking to the police? Unless she intends to just go straight back to the woods—which she can't do, as far as we know—and even then... wouldn't it be helpful to tell the police your story, so long as you could figure out how to do it in a way that wouldn't get you committed? Like, lie a little bit until it's convincing?

And all the food that survived the storm has rotted.

VICTOR IS THE FUCK GOAT. Also, why is Randall still alive? Put him in the box. Or, hell, kill him and eat him! GET FUCKING RID OF RANDALL. HE IS GOING TO KILL YOU ALL.

Uh. Fake corpse totem things in the woods, that's a great sign. And leave it to fucking Jim to just "have" to fucking investigate. I would never ever in a million years allow myself to wind up in a situation where I was alone with Jim.

Holy fuck, Tabitha is refusing to tell the cops what happened so she's going to confession. Jade and Victor elevate her so much more than she deserves; she deserves Jim most of the time.

Oh, and Victor's lunchbox has his address at the bottom of it! A clue!

What the fuck. What kinda CGI bitch...?

You can't plant crops while the weather is turning to winter. Start searching the fucking woods. Do something. Thin your own population, maybe the town will reward you. Maybe the reason it was "angry" the day the bus showed up was because too many people were coming. Or too many people were still alive. Or, hell, maybe it was angry so it sent more people as punishment. Just start trying shit!

Oh my god, these idiots actually put themselves in one of those scary little murder cabins for the night! And now Jim is realizing that his kids are going to have no parents if something happens to him.

AND MEANWHILE, the monsters are opening the animal pens? Well, that's a fucking new behavior. Obviously deliberate, but for which purpose: to starve everyone further, or because there's some childlike logic going on here? Is that why the animals were in the woods to start with? Because whenever the population booms, the monsters let them back out into the woods? Is that why none of the animals seem to have been slaughtered so far (that we know of)? Can the town even slaughter these animals? Are they real animals? Were the crops ever real??? I'm losing it lmao.

Oh, shit, they let the cows out to lure people out to try to corral 'em back to the barn. Good trick! Wait, shit, where did the sheep come from? I knew we had goats, but when did we get sheep? Oh, fuck, and now we've woken the fucker on the bus. Wait, shit, he's actually helping. And stupid Ethan opened the damn door just in time for one of the monsters to come in. If she walks back out, can you run back inside and shut the door?

No, not the cow, what the fuck is wrong with you!? Fuck you!? Let the fucking cow live, Jesus! Poor CGI cow. OMG, and the way Victor ran to go save Jade. My heart!

Oh, no, shit we're gonna lose Kenny's mom on the night Kenny's out of town, aren't we? Fuck.

Wait, woah, this is totally new behavior. What the fuck are the monsters doing? "You think this place can't break you? Let's see."

Bro, what? I'm super super concerned that we just jumped the shark hard.