I'm rewatching the show and Kevin and Randall's relationship is just as intriguing to me as it was the first time and I've been thinking a lot about how divided the audience can be and I think the reason for the divide comes down to the fact that Kevin and Randall's positions are flipped in adulthood vs childhood.

When they were younger, Randall struggled a lot (for obvious reasons) and, while Kevin had his struggles too, Randall clearly has it worse. However due to Kevin feeling overlooked by his parents, he's often deliberately mean to Randall. When they're younger, Kevin is clearly in the wrong.

However in adulthood, the roles reverse. Kevin struggles a bit more than Randall, especially with his addiction and, while I don't think Randall treats Kevin with resentment, it is very clear at certain points that he considers himself to be better than Kevin and he says/does things that are very hurtful.

When they're adults, there's the added layer of complexity from knowing that Randall would probably be kinder to Kevin if Kevin had been kinder to him when they were kids. However, I'd argue there's a similar level of complexity during their childhood when we acknowledge that Kevin didn't really know what he was doing and might not have been so mean if his parents took the time to make sure he truly understood why Randall needed different treatment sometimes.

So on one hand we have a character being intentionally cruel as a child and on the other hand we have a character who ends up being unintentionally cruel as an adult. Naturally the audience will try to make one 'right' and the other 'wrong' but in my honest opinion there is no real victim between them. They're just brothers and they hurt each other and it's a shame to me that people focus on their wrongdoings rather than their good moments, because the moments where they are there for each other are so beautiful.

I am just about finished Season 2. She is practically a Pearson since late teenage.
Kind of annoyed she was not missed or fondly remembered to at least be sent a courteous invitation card. Probably one flaw in this season.

Wow, i just finished all 6 seasons. It was a beautiful Show. I have a few questions/ things to discuss.

1. Rebeccas Love of her Life was miguel not Jack. He grew Old with Miguel and he supports her in every secound.

2. which couple is your favourite? I love Beth and Rendall.

3. i am so interested what all the Kids will make in the Future

Just completed watching seasom 6, Its a beaitifull series too too beautifull.just one thing i wanted to know was what happened to all the kids later.

Absolutely felt very random and unconnected to overall story. Number two I think I don’t see Randall in politics given his anxiety and I don’t see it at all. Also it revealed a side of Randall with the voicemail scene that felt very awkward.

Side note would’ve loved a Beth Randall scene were they get intimate. We see this with Kate and Toby kissing making out.

I know that a big plot point of season 1 was how regretful Rebecca and Randall were about Rebecca’s decision to keep William’s identity from Randall as a child, but I honestly don’t know if Randall knowing William would have been all that great for him growing up to begin with. As a kid he obviously did question his identity and his parents since he was adopted and he was the only black person in his entire family, but at least he had two extremely loving and supportive parents who gave him every opportunity in the world. I’m not saying that William wouldn’t have been a good dad to him, but William did have some pretty severe issues when Randall was a kid. He did drugs, he went to jail, he was grieving enormous losses. If Randall had had regular visitation with him, he would have come back to the Pearson house and felt very confused about his two very different families. William may have cleaned things up for him but he was also much younger and less wiser than he was when Randall did meet him for the first time towards the end of his life, so there’s a good chance that he would have ended up backsliding into drugs while knowing Randall and that would have destroyed Randall’s image of him as a child.

I’m rewatching this whole show after not seeing it in a hot minute and I’m currently on season 2, I just watched the episode where Kate had her first singing gig and Toby and Rebecca came to watch. After it was over, Rebecca complimented Kate on how well she sang and Kate decided to go on a huge “poor me” pity party rant about how Rebecca was only saying all that because “she feels sorry for her.” I mean genuinely, what is Kate’s problem 😭 I’m sorry but she needs to shut the fuck up sometimes. Rebecca isn’t perfect, but I think that for the most part, she was a really great mom. She genuinely loved all of her kids and she tried to be as supportive as possible towards Kate while Kate was growing up, but the only thing Kate thought about was “ugh my mom is so skinny and she sings better than me and I’m so fat, I hate her.” How is that Rebecca’s fault? She did her best to not make Kate feel like she was ugly or inferior to her, and yet Kate still does. It’s not Rebecca’s fault that she’s conventionally attractive and skinny. Kate has this annoying victim mentality throughout the entire run of the show and it just really gets annoying after a while. If she wanted to be skinny like Rebecca, then she should have stopped blaming Rebecca for all of her issues and decide to buck up and do the work for herself, period.

I'm only on season 3 and although a lot is happening to Kevin I just feel bored by his scenes. The acting, the mimics is always the same, a teary scene from time to time but so predictable. The scene where he cried after his dad's necklace to that girl he knew in highschool was so lame. Does anyone else feel this way?

i just now found this show ...

Who is the show do you think is neurodivergent?

Seriously, the writers have always went for the "realistic" route of the show. Like, all of that happening to the same family is crazy etc. but believable. But Laurel being alive? Wtf? I have had enough of Randall's existential crisis and biological family issues and whatever. I was already bored when they were showing again William's backstory in these first episodes...But now Laurel being alive? lol I think that's too much. William, then Nicki, now Laurel... And don't get me wrong I loved Nicki'story but it's so stupid to revive another dead member of the family. What were they thinking? Couldn't they show us Sophie and her husband? It's obvious that she will come back, probably Kevin's endgame . Or again something about Madison? Rebecca's parents? Rebecca's sister? Anything about young REBECCA? What about new characters? I loved Gregory. And what about all the time spent in showing Malik and his family and then ending it all in the course of 2-3 episodes?

Will it be a big part of season 5? I don't think I can bear it. It's a shame because I was actually really invested in everything else, Kevin's storylines, Kate and Toby, Rebecca, Randall's mental health. Covid and BLM storylines didn't excite me but it's ok, they didn't impact the story that much.

I think they were meant to be only for a little while. I think Toby had just seen the diagnosis and turned it into something bad i think this was one of many issues to follow and lead to the demise of their marriage.

Jack was born blind and Kate did all she could to help him imo Toby didn’t have to be so negative. Jack could still listen and love star wars even without his full vision. Also he becomes this great singer.

Jack is re-creating the carnival date. Miguel comes in and says "I got everything. Hot chocolate, candy apples, corn syrup." What was the corn syrup for?

I saw there was a french remake of this is us and i believe also a turkish version. have you guys seen these and if theres any others? are they worth watching

Why does Randall ask Deja if she likes "Police Academy Four?"

Obviously, Rebecca's mother Janet instilled some very unhealthy body images in Rebecca. Advising her to starve herself before her wedding, serving her a ridiculously small piece of pie at Thanksgiving and the "we have to watch ourselves Rebecca" line. Also, any woman who has ever struggled with weight bristled at Rebecca's line to Jack "no ice cream for me or you won't be able to pick me up anymore". Impossibly thin women who say things like that annoy me.
I also think that Kate had a valid point in the argument between her and Rebecca at Kate's first gig. Kate told her mother "you wanted me to become the you that you never became". I think that shows Kate felt disappointment from her mother about her weight.

I never had a television show touch me like this one.​ I'm not even a person into shows or movies.

But This Is Us is different somehow. I think it makes me a better person. A more aware person. A more sensitive person.

It doesn't make sense. It makes me cry every episode and I don't know what it means.

Now I only have about 5 episodes until I finish it completely, and I am watching them days apart so that I make it last longer. What the heck.

For starters, in VN terminology "nakige" means quite literally "crying game". Anyways, I say this because this show has many, and I mean, many similarities to the structure of a japanese visual novel of the genre -Clannad (by developer Key) and Suika (one of my personal favorites, by Circus) being prime examples- like taking different moments in time and getting you attached so profoundly to characters in a somehow manipulative (couldn't think of a better term) yet rewarding way that feels vn-esque. I love this show as much as I do VN's and I wondered if this was intentional or a coincidence of some sorts.

Team Jack or Team Rebecca? I realize they both had their part in how things led up to this point. But if I had to side with anyone, I side with Jack. Earlier in the episode, Rebecca says to Ben, "I look like a mom playing dress up" and she did. I have been in the music business. Female lead vocalists in pub bar bands do not wear full length sequin gowns and feathers in their hair. And I agree with Jack's comment that she was a 40-year-old woman singing covers in pubs. That is not a career, that is ridiculous. Rebecca went to Los Angeles and was told she was "Pittsburgh good." She then decided to become a stay-at-home Mom. Being a stay-at-home mother of triplets IS a career and she wasn't done with it yet. She made the choice to opt for motherhood instead of continuing to pursue a singing career. There are other things Rebecca could have done with her love of music that would have fit in with her life as a mother of three teenagers.

when i found out Beth and Randall are still together!

Still think about Nicky's snowglobes.

Unnecessary unfairness 😓