***the following interview contains major spoilers from the season 3 finale***

Yesterday, the season three finale of FROM premiered on MGM+. The series follows a group of residents of a town that cannot leave and try to live a normal existence while being plagued by dangers not only from the forest surrounding the town, but also from nightmarish creatures that roam and kill at night.

In the final episode of the season, everyone is getting desperate searching for the pregnant Fatima, who has been kidnapped by Elgin after listening to the visions he has of “Kimono Woman.” Boyd, fearing for his daughter-in-law, decides to force Elgin to tell them where he is keeping her by torturing him. Before he can do so, he sees a vision of Father Khatri telling him that if he goes to that point, he can’t come back from it. Boyd ignores Khatri.

Recently, Shaun Majumder spoke with SciFi Vision at length about working on the series, including what he thinks Boyd’s visions of his character actually are, if Boyd can actually come back from what he did, working with Harold Perrineau in the scenes of the season finale, the series questions he’d like to know the answer to, and much more.

Read the full transcript below. FROM will return with new episodes in 2026. For now, you can catch up on all three seasons on MGM+.

***Edited for length and clarity***

SCIFI VISION:   When you first found out that your character was dead, did you know you were going to come back right away, or did you find that out way after?

SHAUN MAJUMDER:   I had no idea. I had no idea, number one, that I was going to die, and I had no idea if I would ever come back. I just assumed that was it. Because, honestly, these writers have been so airtight with anything, around future plot, current plot, past plot, any ripples in the story, any folds in the reality of where we are. John Griffin, Jeff [Pinkner], and Jack [Bender] have been masters at, not even deception. Just, I mean, if I were a terrorist, and I kidnapped them, and I tried to get them to confess, I would lose. They would win every time. They're so good.

If you recall, in season one, leading up to my demise, there was a very intense story around Father Khatri's theories about why they were there, and it had to do with books in the Bible. I believe the name of the episode was actually [“Book 74”]…and there were some things that, as I was working through the preparation for that episode, I'm wanting to ground it. I really wanted to talk to John about some of the pieces and some of Khatri’s kind of motivations for putting this theory together. So, I asked him. I said, “Can we meet for lunch?” like, [on] the Sunday leading up to the taping of the episode or starting to work on it. And he's like, “Yeah, for sure.”

So, I was excited. I was meeting him for lunch. I was waiting in downtown Halifax. We picked a spot, a little café, and I was waiting outside for him to come. Beautiful sunny day.

He walks up, and I could tell he's got this strange look on his face. It was part grimace. I'm like, “Does he have heartburn?” Something's not right about this guy as he's approaching me. I was like, “Hey man, what's up?” And we started to have a quick chat, but he stopped it immediately, and [he] almost had tears in his eyes. I swear to God. He was like, “I've got some news, and it's not good news.”

And I was like, “Oh, no. Does he have a cyst? Does he have a polyp? What's going on? What happened?” Anyway, then he just bluntly told me. He said, “Your character dies in Episode 7.” I was like, “Wait, wait a minute.” I felt like I was, if I were ever to be on the show The Bachelor, like one of the girls who gets dumped out of nowhere, it felt like that for a minute.

He went on to tell me that it's been one of the hardest things that he's ever had to do. Because he was saying everybody loves Khatri now in terms of the writers and producers and all of the people. They were like, “We were trying to figure out a way to keep you on the show, but this character piece has to happen for Boyd, in order to kind of catapult Boyd into this next chapter for the story. Because Katri has been Boyd's North Star.”

So, anyway, I just wanted to share that experience, because it's kind of, you know, you started by asking, “did I have any idea?” And I really did not. But it came from such a place of integrity and how they plotted the story, and it was a really hard experience for me, hearing that news.

But now, as we see Khatri's journey and continued journey, it's been incredibly rewarding as well. Because the way he described just the importance of Khatri in his relationship to Boyd, it's been really cool.

SCIFI VISION:   You make me wonder if they don't tell you things, did you ever have to kind of make things up, I guess, as you went, not knowing certain things as like an actor, or does it make it easier if you didn't know things because he doesn't know?

SHAUN MAJUMDER:   It's a combination of things, you know, just as an actor where there's not a lot of clear evidence about, for example, backstory. You just know what you're dealing with in the present on the page, but sometimes you have to fill in gaps to feed you the imagery, feed you whatever you need to get you to a place. I mean, I spent a lot of time working on visualizing the experience that was written.

And I spoke to John a lot prior about how I envisioned Khatri's journey, how he got to where he got to and the whole experience with beating the man to death in defense of this child who had been abused, maybe beating him near death, which sent him off into this spiral of alcoholism and questioning everything that he ever worked his whole [life], that he ever did to become a man of God. So, I worked a lot on that making that up in my mind, and the experience of that, obviously, but no, in terms of what's on the page and in terms of what is the problem, and the challenges that each character faces day to day in Fromville, From Town, nothing. And the fact that we don't know really does help feed the performances, I believe.

SCIFI VISION:   Okay. Now, this, I'm guessing you probably don’t know the answer, but if for some reason they did tell you, then what you thought before you found out. On our podcast, we have so many times been talking back and forth, me and my other two co-hosts. Is he really in Boyd's head? Is he something sent from the town? Is he, you know, an entity something? What do you think he is now that he's dead? I mean, do you think he's just in Boyd's head? Do you think he's a ghost? I'm just kind of curious, your own opinion.

SHAUN MAJUMDER:   I think it's evolved over time for me, personally, Sean, the actor. For me It's evolved. Originally, when I was told in season two, it's like, “Hey, they're having you back for a couple episodes,” I was like, “I wonder what this is.” Then, I read the scripts, and I saw my interaction with him. Then, all of a sudden it becomes on point on the surface, which is, “Oh yeah, he's the voice of reason.” This place acts in strange ways. I'm in his head. He's in a situation where he's on the precipice of making a terrible decision. In comes Khatri, but it's really his subconscious. That's what I originally thought. And as time went on and more scenes started coming forward with me in it.

And also, the unraveling of what this place is. And now with time travel, there are no bounds. There are no limits to what this is.

And who is controlling what? I think that I am more than just his subconscious. Now, I don't think it's just - I keep going to a Christmas Carol where Scrooge, I remember there's one scene in the Alistair Sims version where he's talking about, “Ooh, I think it was a vision, like a bad piece of meat. I ate a bad piece of meat.” Like, I don't think it's that anymore. I don't think Khatri is a bad piece of meat anymore. I really do think there's something else at play and it may be only in his head, but I feel like now there's more of an active force. I think there's more at play here now, especially when in the first scene in this particular season where Boyd says, “Hey, look, that wasn't Abby when I was in the tower with Martin, so what are you?” And my response, Khatri's response was, “I'm afraid I can't answer that for you, Boyd.” That just tees up something. And when I read it, I went, “that's interesting.” Like, what does that mean?

SCIFI VISION:   We might not know for a while though. Probably.

SHAUN MAJUMDER:   Yeah. Yeah. But I love it.

I love that. Because that creates inertia. That creates momentum to that question of like, what does that mean? And it has fans leaning in, and the more people that are asking questions - I know there's people who are, I'm seeing online a little bit. Just people are really frustrated. Like “I want answers,” but not knowing is what's driving everybody to the show.

SCIFI VISION:   Yeah, I know. Right. If they answer everything, there would be no show.

SHAUN MAJUMDER:   Yeah, but there does need to be a balance.

SCIFI VISION:   I know. Yeah. No, I get that.

There's a lot of answers in the finale though. That's for sure.

So, when he's talking to Boyd in the finale, when he's ready to torture Elgin, he does say to Boyd that he can't come back if he goes that far. And I noticed that after he vanishes, although, you know, he does kind of disappear every once in a while. So, it's hard to tell if that's why, but after Boyd hits Elgin in the hand, Khatri disappears. I mean, do you think that that's true? Do you think Boyd's gone too far? Do you think that maybe he can come back? I was just kind of curious of your own opinion. I hope that you're coming back regardless. I hope we see you again.

SHAUN MAJUMDER:   Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. But I think when he talks about coming back from this, you know, if we assume, and what has been planted throughout the whole series, that hope, you know, is what the creatures thrive on. What[ever] this evil entity, whatever this thing is, whether you judge it as evil, or if it's a test, but the fact is that hope is what drives these people, keeps people there. Then, if you go past that point where you've lost all hope, I mean, one of two things is going to happen. It's either going to liberate you from the place, or you will die, whether it's spiritually or actually, I don't know.

I really don't know. I think that the messaging that Khatri has had to Boyd throughout, even when he was alive, that first conversation about the box in season one was so, so important to say, “Hey, look, you're the one. Right now, you are the reason why people are together. You must maintain that grounding, that sense of leadership, but you're about to become [like] one of the creatures.” I think is a fair question. And we did that scene several different ways. I'm not sure which one they ended up going with. So, I'm, I'm actually really curious. I have not seen the finale, so I can't speak to it exactly, but I think the fact that we were joking because we were like, “You’re flying me in from LA to stand there and stare at Boyd in that very last moment.” But John was like, “That's like such a powerful moment.” I mean, what was it like for you? I haven't seen it.

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SHAUN MAJUMDER:   … How did it play for you when you watched that?

SCIFI VISION:   It's really good. I think the whole scene in a good way was hard to watch. Like I could not believe he was actually going to do it and that he's not listening. I was surprised he [smashed Elgin’s hand].

SHAUN MAJUMDER:   That's right.

SCIFI VISION:   Yeah, that's right.

SHAUN MAJUMDER:   And that's why I think when I'm standing there, and I'm looking at him saying, without saying anything, like, “This is it, man. You go here, you do not come back from this.”

SCIFI VISION:   Definitely. That's why I don't know how any of them are. They all stood there and let him do it too. That's what's bad.

So, you sort of touched on this, but talk a little bit about working with Harold in those scenes in the finale.

SHAUN MAJUMDER:   Oh, in the finale and every exchanged bit of dialogue that I've done with him has been pure joy. There's a trust there. On a personal level, we have such respect for each other. He’s so generous. You know, I'm speaking as an actor now, but I think you see that come through in terms of the trust we have for each other as people, but the friendship between Boyd and Khatri has so much. There's a lot of history there at From Town, and I think the fact that I was the one in the very beginning, that Khatri was the person to save him and his family right out of the gates, to guide them, to put them underground, to show them that this is how we do it here, you know, because we have that history. It was really, really fun to playthings, like, we can break each other's balls. We can really go after each other. We can tear each other down, but we love each other. And that comes through, I think, in every scene that's been written, and I really love that.

I really, really, really love that, because it's not just - you know, sometimes I felt like it was one note where I'm saying the same thing to him sometimes over and over again. So, we've tried to break that open a little bit in each scene, but working with Harold is a joy, pure joy, because he is so generous, and he's so committed. It just immediately immerses you in the relationship, and I love that so much.

SCIFI VISION:   Is there a certain mystery of the show that you really want to know the answer to, or maybe something you wanted to know before you found out the answer? There's so many.

SHAUN MAJUMDER:   There's still many. What I find my mind going to when I'm watching or I'm thinking about it now is if From Town is a snow globe, I want to know who's looking in that glass.

I want to know. It is a very interesting question, because, you know, the soldiers for this entity are clearly the individuals who are there, who are from another generation, why they're dressed in those fifties garb, I still cannot wrap my head around.

People are talking about reincarnation now as a big part of the show, talking about the different souls who have come and gone through past lives, that whole journey. Well, then if that is the case, you know, what is it about? Like how many generations of these individual people have lived there?

Like, we go from civil war to 1950s, but what about in between? There is a timeline that's very interesting, but for me, when we talk about the things that are worse than the creatures and worse than the spiders - we haven't really seen the spiders. We know that the nightmares that exist with the webs, you know, in season two, that was interesting, but we haven't seen any of the spiders.

What is that thing that's walking around outside the cabins in the settlement?

SCIFI VISION:   That’s what I want to know that’s driving me nuts

SHAUN MAJUMDER:   That's interesting, but I think that's interesting because it's a physical existence, but there's something on a higher level, like Snoke from Star Wars. Like, what is this entity? How is Thomas's voice coming through? Who is that first voice coming through to Jim on the radio during the storm in the tower?

What was that? So, what is this higher power that is watching, and what is the purpose of that higher power? That to me is, is the most interesting…question that I have.

SCIFI VISION:   Right. And I was going to say, and I take it, your theory is the snow globe theory? Then you That's what you think is going on?

SHAUN MAJUMDER:   Oh, I don't have a theory. I'm actually just using that as a metaphor to say, there's so many different ones out there. Yeah. But I think, I wonder if there is - you know, I use that as a metaphor, just saying the world that they're living inside of is like a fishbowl, but there's somebody standing in the kitchen, looking down into the fishbowl. The fish don't realize they're in a fishbowl, but there's something else at play, and I'm curious about what John's thinking is about that. Like, who's the puppeteer.

SCIFI VISION:   Right. Right. Yeah. All those things I want to know too.

SHAUN MAJUMDER:   Yeah. Yeah. I don't know, honestly, none of the cast, nobody knows.

SCIFI VISION:   Right. Yeah. I don't know. I think I'd be bugging them all the time, but it sounds like it wouldn't have made any difference. They're not going to answer you.

SHAUN MAJUMDER:   Yeah. Yeah. Cause we genuinely, nobody knows.  

…And I'm excited, because I haven't seen the season finale yet. I know I read the script a long time ago, but I know that Julie has something to do…I mean, there's so many great things that I can't wait to see that kind of are gray in my mind.