This Is Us

When people revisit this season of This Is Us in the future, its many starts and stops will disappear into the blur…

One thing that makes This Is Us feel like a realistic depiction of family is that old issues can come bubbling to…

The most compelling throughline in “Both Things Can Be True” takes up the least amount of screentime. In what feels…

“Jack’s kid named his kid after me. I mean, god, Jack must be rolling in his grave around that one.”

The big houses. The ambiguous careers. The spontaneous cross-country flights. For years the vague but luxurious…

The past few episodes of This Is Us have been defined by cars. First there was Kate’s journey to confront Marc. Then …

There are two versions of This Is Us: The big melodramatic tear-jerking show that’s earned the reputation as…

This Is Us loves a fake out car crash. It ended its first season with one for Jack, and pulled the same trick with…

“Birth Mother” ends with one of the most beautifully original sequences in This Is Us history. Having finally…

Back in the This Is Us season premiere, Randall longed for a year without surprises. And while the show, of course,…

It’s easy to admire the big, showy episodes of This Is Us. But what I really appreciate are episodes like…

This Is Us’ fifth season premiere had the massive hurdle of reintroducing the show in its new pandemic reality. This…

When This Is Us’ fourth season finale aired at the end of March, we were just entering what many assumed would be a…

For its season finale, This Is Us has babies on the brain. The Big Three are celebrating their first birthdays in…

It was all but inevitable that This Is Us would eventually do a “what if” Sliding Doors-style storyline. I assumed…

A couple weeks ago, This Is Us aired a trilogy that focused on impactful moments in three different eras of the Big…

“Clouds” is my favorite kind of This Is Us episode: Simple and smarter than it looks. Season four hasn’t been hugely…

After three episodes of buildup, “The Cabin” is a rather lackluster capper for this latest Big Three trilogy. Most…

A few seasons ago, Kate and Rebecca could barely make it through a conversation without it devolving into a fight.…

The problem with This Is Us’ Big Three trilogies is that it’s really hard to find parallel stories that are equally…