Harold Perrineau Teases Exciting Twists and Turns in Season 2 Finale of “From”

Harold Perrineau: You know, the season 1 finale, I think for Boyd specifically, it left us with a feeling of ‘Oh my God! What do we do now?’, and the season 2 finale, after all the things that happened in season 2, I think it leaves Boyd really battered, but also leaves him with a bit of satisfaction. A couple of things got accomplished, and he can trust that he isn’t going crazy.

I think it leaves Boyd with, if you can call it this, satisfaction, wheras in last season, it left him with a giant question. So that’s where it leaves Boyd. As far as the show goes, there are much bigger questions, but for Boyd, I feel like there’s a tiny bit of satisfaction, if you can call it that.

Harold Perrineau: I think for the viewers, as far as the finale goes, I think that they’re going to think that Boyd should have reached his tipping point. He’s there, he’s tipped over, he’s cursing God directly, and so, he’s reached that point where all bets are off. I think the fans will see that and his resilience, and I think they will trust him a little bit more that whatever happens to Boyd, he’s going to keep fighting to save everybody if he can.

Harold Perrineau: In the season 2 finale, no! Boyd’s the only one who has any satisfaction! Everybody else is about to be fully traumatized. With all the stuff that happens with Tabitha, that’s going to be traumatizing for her family, for Victor, for all the town – and this is all me guessing the future – but my speculation is that the only person so far who’s had any satisfaction is Boyd.

Harold Perrineau: Well, at the end of season 1, we leave with Boyd in the well, and then by the end of season 2, it’s really only been days. So, from the time the Matthews’ have gotten there, it’s been a couple of weeks maybe. So, as far as Boyd’s relationship with Ellis, they’re at a place where they can at least talk about Ellis’ mom Abby. I still there’s some struggling between them, and there will be places that they can connect and places where they’ll still have disagreements, because you can see that Boyd still isn’t doing it perfectly.

As you can see quite often, Boyd is going ‘Hey, I’ve got to go again’, and that’s exactly where they found themselves at the beginning, where Boyd feels like he has to do this mission, and leaves Ellis and his mom sort of out there by themselves. You see that again and again all throughout season two, and I feel like that’s something they still have to contend with. While I think things are getting better, and Boyd will always love his son and Ellis will always love his Dad, that strain is always kind of going to be there. It’s an age-old kind of problem with fathers and sons, and lots of people deal with that issue of ‘Oh, my Dad went to work and he just left me’, and I think that’s what we’re looking at in their relationship right now.

Harold Perrineau: Boyd’s biggest challenge in season 2 was his own brain. He just couldn’t find a place where it was safe, and he just didn’t know how to trust himself, and I think that was his biggest challenge throughout the entire season.

Harold Perrineau: You know, I think Boyd has a lot of great moments throughout the whole season, and I think when Boyd comes to question God and stand in God’s face and ask ‘What do you think you’re doing here?’, for me, that’s a really big moment, and it felt really big for me even as an actor, because there are times where I’m like ‘Hey God, you know I’m acting, right?’ For me, that’s a really big stand out moment, and then the push forward to try to get some resolution.