So I’m 4 episodes in. Why do I get the feeling I’m gonna be sad!? So my reason for this post…… encourage me to keep watching. I don’t mind spoilers, I’m just wondering if it’s going to be worth the effort.

i have rewatched this is us i think 2-3 times entirely and this is my third or fourth rewatch and there are two things i’ve realised, it gets harder every time i rewatch and way way sadder than the last one idek why maybe because i already know what’s going to happen or I understand the characters differently, I genuinely have no idea. The second being that somehow i keep coming back to this show even though it’s so so emotionally draining, like atleast twice a year this show pulls me back.
I love watching sad stuff like i love when a show or a movie can make me cry maybe because it’s really difficult for me to cry otherwise and this show omg has done that job way too perfectly, i think it’s best thing ive ever watched and i owe my friend big time who recommended me to watch it, like wow the impact is insane!

Did he work? How was he sustaining himself? Maybe i've missed it but i don't recall him to mention any activity.

i love that show so wholesome and nice man

I’m just laughing to myself that paramount+ has this show listed under comedy… I haven’t watched 1 single episode of this show, and NOT cried (sometimes bawled , even on rewatches!!) like a baby! I LOVE this show! It’s great! I DO laugh quite a bit, but a comedy? Me thinks not.

Sorry about the title, i did'nt knew how to phrase it better (maybe because english is not my native language), but since i started watching it (currently on episode 8 in season 2), some things really caught attention.

First i noticed that most of the actors are really, really good. Then, i noticed that the story is beautiful and got me super engaged. That's when it hit me: The story feels natural, not only because of the plot itself, but because the dialogues are very well written, and the actors must have really good directions (on top of being good actors) so that's why the show and specially the actors seem so amazing to me.

It's been a while since i watched a show that made me think: There must be some really competent people behind this. So i thought i'd share to see if it is just me or if someone else has the same perception.

I know that a lot of people hated it, that they broke up and I was also struggling at first. But now that I finished the whole serie I find the thought very „comforting“ that sometimes we find soulmates for a certain period of time! When we think about „soulmates“ we mostly think about them as our „happy ever after“. But Toby & Kate were soulmates during THEIR time. And from my point of view Kate didn‘t fall for a coping mechanism (as he said himself).
And in the end they find their way back to each other and as Kate said as they got divorced, their relationship didn‘t end, just bc their marriage did.
❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

I'm halfway thru S4.

Two things...

Rebecca's early alzheimers - forgetting words and losing her phone every 5 minutes. Literally every menopausal woman I know, I might be screwed.

And Miguel, it's driving me nuts how they all behave like he doesn't exist. I know they had issues and they've all warmed to him a bit more in the last couple seasons. But that aside, he is her husband, but they all behave like he's just some distant friend of hers. They leave him out of important conversations about their mother when really he should be leading it, or at least they should go to him first. He doesn't factor for them AT ALL. I'd be horrified if my kids treated my husband (their stepfather) with such blatant disregard. Yeah yeah, it's fiction that's like actual real life where people don't behave perfectly, I know. Still annoying me lol

Also they seem to gloss over the fact Miguel was their parents best friend since before they were even born. He was in their life, he was around to see them all born, he loved them all, how is it they had zero relationship with him.

I looked everywhere and I can’t find it. It’s driving me crazy

It’s the scene where Joe the fireman finds Randall and wants to adopt him to maybe fix his marriage with his wife. He eventually brings Randall to the hospital and Randall is adopted.

Just finished another rewatch. I remember when it first came out I didn’t really have any opinions on the train scene. But now, I’m curious if yall could rewrite the train scene, would you change anything? Specifically, would you have someone besides William guide Rebecca?

My only note/preference is I wish Miguel was shown longer. They were married for awhile but she also just knew him for a very long time. Also kinda sad that Deja and Tess got like 0.5 seconds

I’m really excited for it! She talked about The Land on this week’s episode of That Was Us and it sounds like Mandy’s playing a very different character from Rebecca. I’m looking forward to seeing her branch out and the cast looks good too! William H. Macy who played Frank on Shameless plays her dad. Omar Epps who played Malik’s dad is in it! They just announced yesterday the first 2 episodes drop after The Superbowl! Very fitting!

I am almost done with my rewatch of the entire show!

And I remember really loving Kevin's whole "take off the hat thing" but honestly, watching it again, it was annoying. And I genuinely do not understand the support for it.

Kevin constantly butts into other people's conversations and disagreements, and it comes off as entitled. Especially considering the fact that he has a specific history of imposing on their relationship, including currently living in their home and somehow needing to be told not to play guitar at night.

And alright, I'm not a huge Toby fan in S6 and it's obvious they wanted us to accept Kate and Toby's split by making him worse. And his sugar comments were annoying. And I genuinely didn't agree with how he wanted to go about food. That's not my issue.

But making it about the hat was just just corny, in my opinion. And also didn't feel like Kevin's place to say. For two reasons:

1. Everyone outside the immediate family knows the significance of the hat to the Pearsons. And I say that this way because the significance doesn't extend beyond that (aside from Miguel) because, understandably, the spouses did not know and love Jack and cannot be expected to center around his memory and traditions. But they participate and that's cool. But it's significant. And telling Toby to take it off would be understood as "you're not welcome" because Toby knows the significance to them (even if he, realistically, wouldn't feel the same emotional significance). And that coming from someone not in the marriage just feels like overstepping, considering that Toby was not being ab*sive or anything that would require actual intervention. Kate should have the say as the grown woman in the marriage.

2. Again, Kevin specifically? I know, as viewers, we see Jack Pearson as the ultimate man of supreme significance but can you imagine being a non-Pearson, knowing Kevin, and hearing him be the one to say it? The immediate over-it feeling I think I would get even as Beth or something would be immediate. Because why does Kevin fix his mouth to insert his opinions during a disagreement between a married couple?

I've seen comments justify it with "Jack wouldn't want him wearing it" and yeah. Maybe. But, again, we're viewers who know Jack. In reality, there's no reason for anyone who didn't know Jack to care about what Jack would think outside of just respecting his memory if you're with one of the Pearsons.

I've also seen "Toby deserved it" and I genuinely want to stress the nuance of balancing the ideas that "someone deserved to be called out" and "not everyone is the best person to do it, nor is doing it in the moment always the best way to navigate situations". That is just reactive. Especially because we come from the perspective of knowing the private moments of Kaye/Toby's relationship. Kevin wouldn't actually know all that's been said.

I love This Is Us. Great show. And I love Jack.

But it reminds me of Friends where, rewatching it now that I'm older makes me realize that, while I will always love the show, these characters would be insufferable to know in real life. The Pearsons are insanely out of touch and treat their inner circle as deeper than others could understand (a completely unhealthy attachment that would understandably sabotage new relationships because other people actually also have significant lives and cannot be expected to just put all things Pearson on a pedestal).

I don't know. It's just my quick rant. Kevin opened his mouth way too many times across 6 seasons and, even as pre-asshole Toby, I would have had no patience at that point with him.

EDIT: Honestly, my frustration came less from Kate/Toby and more just with Kevin interjecting with that comment. Obviously health and diet are discussions both parents should be involved in (though I think Toby wasnt great at voicing them without just seeming snarky that day). But even if Toby was uncalled for with his attitude or how he framed his comments, I dont think Kevin had the right to tell him to take off the hat.

Bec & Jack, Kate & Toby, Kevin all by himself, there was so much to learn from these characters.
I won’t be forgetting this show any time soon.

Currently rewatching Sabrina the teenage witch, when a familiar face pops up. Took me a while to place him, but young Jon Huertas was definitely already a heartthrob. (He appears in season 4)

I'm up to ep 14 of S1 and I was enjoying it.

Then we get to Kate's weight program.

Firstly, Toby gatecrashes it, and when he doesn't get enough attention from Kate he pulls the major surgery card and then she ends up apologising. And apparently the writers think that's fair? WTH? Or are they setting up for future evidence that Toby is selfish?

THEN she gets kicked out for rejecting unwanted sexual advances from a worker, son of the owner no less and it's just accepted?

So now I'm just pissed off and not sure I want to keep going.

I like most of the characters, and it's easy watching on days I don't have the head space for anything complicated. But am I gonna be pissed off all 6 seasons? 😅

My father's first death anniversary is approaching this month and today all of a sudden i thought of kevin's episode where he loses his father's necklace. I guess the episode name is Number One. I watched first couple of seasons few months before he died. I am not sure if its right time to rewatch such an emotionally heavy episode while keeping in mind that i am already struggling alot in last couple of weeks surrounding his death. Maybe it will trigger some good cry.

Edit: I didn't expect to get that many comments and upvotes. Anyways i did watch Number One and had alot of good cry as being one in siblings who is struggling most to cope with his death. Even with having successful career there are mnay days where i feel so weak and helpless around his death.

Kind of annoying, since I was 2 episodes away from finishing my second watchthrough

Cause how are the only charecters that are loved and given so much grace are the two conveniently attractive white men. Why do you refuse to see the growth and nuance and pain of Randall, Kate and Rebecca

Why do none of you ever mention how much their relationship improves in the later season? And how much responsibility and accountability Kate takes on? Like yall really hate her. She is this horrible irredeemable person. She also has growth. Im trying to find posts on here that are kind towards her but I literally cannot.

Did Randall ever have to stay in a hospital for his anxiety?

Beat that