From is one of those shows you can’t stop watching once you start. The fourth season has arrived with brand-new mysteries and a more refreshing narrative arc. Lost alum Harold Perrineau remains at the center of it all, delivering a compelling and deeply sympathetic performance as Boyd.

I had the chance to speak with Harold Perrineau about his character, the new nightmares in From Season 4, and some of the theories surrounding the show.

Let’s do it! Where is Boyd mentally after everything he’s been through over 4 seasons?

Harold Perrineau: Boyd is mentally destroyed right now. He is mentally, physically, and emotionally torn apart. And what he has to do with all of that stuff is he still has to move forward. And that’s gonna be the really interesting [part]—that’s where real tension is gonna be throughout the whole season. Watching him try to pick up all those pieces that he shattered into and still go forward to try to get everybody out of this town. 

Yeah, these monsters coming out at night were said to be “the tip of the spear,” and now we are exploring some new territories this season. Was that exciting for you? 

Harold Perrineau: Oh, absolutely! Each time a new script that came out, I was like, “What? What’s happening now?” And it’s really, really interesting to see. Ever since Martin mentions the tip of the spear, I’ve been looking forward to finding out. I mean, the monsters are pretty horrible. What can be worse than this? And now I’m finding out there’s a lot.

Yeah, it just gets worse somehow. So what’s been the most challenging scene for you to film in this season? 

Harold Perrineau: What’s been really hard is I sort of expected a lot of the physical stuff that was going to happen to Boyd, but I didn’t expect the emotional stuff that’s gonna happen to Boyd, and so that’s been really tricky.

He starts off season four pretty emotionally broken. The re-entrance of Smiley… That’s enough to break anybody. Like, you kill this thing and it’s back. So he starts off like that, but then he has to, each episode, continue on. And each time I read it, I just  want to go like, “You know what, you guys? That’s enough. Just let him kill me, OK?” It’s enough, but he can’t [give up]. He has to keep figuring it out, and that’s what’s been interesting for me to figure out. What would make you do the next step? Why would you take the next step? And he does. That’s really fun to play, but unexpected. 

Are there answers coming in From season 4, or will we get just more questions?

Harold Perrineau: Well, that’s the fun of the whole show: There are answers. There are answers all the time, and the answers always lead to a new question. Like, you can’t get out of the town—that’s the answer. Now what do you do? There are monsters that come out at night—that’s the answer. But now what do you do? And so we get answers all the time, and what I really do appreciate is that we’re still on the journey together. You, me, the whole audience… None of us know what’s going on. There are 2 people in the whole world who know what’s going on, and that’s it. So we’re all on this journey together, trying to figure it out. And actually, that’s the part: I don’t even want the answers. I do, but when I get the answers, this is gonna be over. 

I thought since you were an executive producer, maybe you had the answers…

Harold Perrineau: I don’t, because I don’t want the answers. I want to stay really, really, really true to what’s going on, because I think that’s what the audience can feel.

They can tell if I know the answers. I think it’s just a little bit in the back of my mind: “He knows what’s going on.” Hopefully you see that I really don’t, and Boyd really doesn’t. And so he’s always figuring it out. He’s always trying to figure out what’s next and best, and hopefully, that’s tangible in the whole performance. And so I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t want to.

OK, so one last question. What’s the wildest fan theory you’ve heard that might actually be close to what you think about the show? 

Harold Perrineau: I don’t know the guy’s name, but he was on TikTok, and he was doing this whole timeline about From, and I don’t know how he knows the timeline, but for him it starts in like the 1500s, and he knows what year everybody showed up in the town. Yeah, that feels pretty rough. It seems like he’s on to something there. I don’t know how he figured that whole thing out, but he kind of has dates for when everybody showed up—when Miranda got there, Christopher, then Jade and Tabitha… It’s really good. It’s a good theory. 

This interview has been edited for clarity.

From Season 4 is now streaming on MGM+.