In From season 3, Tabitha Matthews (Catalina Sandino Moreno) discovers many connections between herself and the late Miranda Kavanaugh (Sarah Booth), Victor’s (Scott McCord) mother who was killed decades earlier while heading to From‘s lighthouse portal. In particular, From season 3, episode 3 reveals that both Tabitha and Miranda have a personal connection to Joni Mitchell’s “Blue.” In the third outing’s premiere, Tabitha wakes up in a hospital in Camden, Maine after being pushed through a lighthouse window by From‘s Boy in White in the season-two finale. In Camden, Tabitha realizes that she’s quite close to Victor’s childhood home.

Upon arriving at Victor’s former house, Tabitha meets Robert Joy’s Henry, Victor’s father, who wasn’t with their family when they arrived in From‘s Township. Although Henry is skeptical of Tabitha’s story at first, something she says about needing to “save the children” who are locked in a tower catches Henry by surprise. Before Miranda disappeared, she had mentioned the same quest. Henry shares that Miranda was an artist who had prophetic visions of the Town. Victor’s mother’s paintings reference figures and symbols from the Township. However, Tabitha and Miranda are united by more than their shared visions of trapped children.

Miranda’s Favorite Song & Tabitha’s Song With Jim Is “Blue” By Joni Mitchell

“Blue” Also Plays On The Diner’s Jukeboxes In From Season 1

While Miranda’s telling paintings are the big reveal in From season 3, episode 2, the third installment underlines several other connections between Miranda and Tabitha’s experiences. For example, Tabitha learns that Miranda created several bottle tree installations before becoming trapped in the purgatory-like location of From‘s Town. Henry offers to show Tabitha the original bottle tree, which contains a hollow like the Town’s magical Faraway Trees. Once they’re in the car, Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” comes on over the speakers. In disbelief, Tabitha shares that “Blue” is her and Jim’s song. However, the moment is even more loaded than that.

Henry explains that the cassette has been stuck in his car since before Miranda, Victor, and Eloise disappeared. Evidently, “Blue” was also Miranda’s favorite song. Henry dismisses the connection as a fun bit of happenstance, but viewers — and even Tabitha — register the connection as something much more meaningful. To make matters even more interesting, “Blue” is one of the songs on From‘s diner jukeboxes. Not only does “Blue” appear on the jukeboxes’ track listings, but the song briefly plays in season 1 when the Matthews family has dinner with Boyd (Harold Perrineau) after their first night in Town.

What The Lyrics Of “Blue” Mean & How They Connect To Henry & Tabitha’s Stories

Joni Mitchell’s Lonely Song About Love Unraveling Captures Tabitha & Miranda’s Lives

The title song from Joni Mitchell’s 1971 album of the same name, “Blue” carries a lot of meaning in its lyrics. An iconic folk rock song, “Blue” is supposedly about Mitchell’s relationship with fellow artist James Taylor, who struggled with an addiction to heroin and other drugs. More broadly, the song’s speaker discusses their idyllic love, which gradually begins to fray. Heartbreaking and vulnerable, “Blue” is lauded for being a raw, emotional song as well as a feminist piece in which the musician tries to reconcile the hardships of her life with her beautiful, deeply felt art.

Traveling from place to place, Mitchell isn’t able to find comfort in a new space.

“Blue / Songs are like tattoos,” Mitchell sings in the song’s opening moments. She goes on to sing that so many people are “sinking” but that the person she’s singing to has to “keep thinking” that they can “make it through these waves.” Despite capturing so much love, “Blue” is also about loneliness. The album at large is about Mitchell’s search for herself in the wake of heartbreak and change. Traveling from place to place, Mitchell isn’t able to find comfort in a new space.

It’s easy to see why an artist like Miranda, who struggled to reconcile her prophetic art with her own life, connected to a song like “Blue.” Like Henry, Jim has a difficult time believing in what his wife sees and experiences. After what happened to Thomas, Jim and Tabitha’s son, the couple was on a verge of divorce. “Blue” feels almost prophetic, predicting the way the couple’s love unravels and leaves them feeling alone. From season 3 reveals why the Matthews family was drawn into the Township; Tabitha, like Miranda before her, has a destiny that’s linked to the strange, inescapable place.

Tabitha & Miranda’s Love For “Blue” Continues A Mysterious Link Between Their Lives Before From’s Town

Tabitha’s Bracelet Reiterates The Puzzling Connection Between Her & Victor’s Mom

There’s no denying the connection between Tabitha and Miranda, who both seem to be “chosen” by the Township to save the Ghoulish Children. The visions the two women experience of the children, and their love of Joni Mitchell’s “Blue,” aren’t the only links between their lives. In From season 3’s third episode, Tabitha also discovers something unbelievable in Henry’s glove compartment: the bracelet that Tabitha made for Jim. Previously, the bracelet that Tabitha finds in From appeared in the diner’s storage area.

New episodes of From season 3 premiere on MGM+ on Sundays through November 24, 2024.

In From season 1, Tabitha claims to have made the exact same bracelet for Jim, who lost the item the night Julie was born. Tabitha even convinces Jim that the bracelet from storage is the very same one he lost, not a mere look-alike. When Tabitha finds it again in Henry’s car, she believes Victor’s father is in on some elaborate ruse, though he insists that Miranda made him the bracelet before she vanished. In a flashback, Miranda wears the bracelet when she says a final “goodbye” to Victor. Clearly, the strange connections between Tabitha and Miranda aren’t coincidental.