Mar 24
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B+
For its season finale, This Is Us has babies on the brain. The Big Three are celebrating their first birthdays in…
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Mar 17
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It was all but inevitable that This Is Us would eventually do a “what if” Sliding Doors-style storyline. I assumed…
Mar 10
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B+
Feb 25
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B+
“Clouds” is my favorite kind of This Is Us episode: Simple and smarter than it looks. Season four hasn’t been hugely…
Feb 19
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B-
After three episodes of buildup, “The Cabin” is a rather lackluster capper for this latest Big Three trilogy. Most…
Feb 11
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B
A few seasons ago, Kate and Rebecca could barely make it through a conversation without it devolving into a fight.…
Jan 28
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The problem with This Is Us’ Big Three trilogies is that it’s really hard to find parallel stories that are equally…
Jan 21
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After last week’s terrifying cliffhanger, it’s a relief that “A Hell Of A Week: Part One” isn’t an hour-long home…
Jan 14
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B
“Light And Shadows” is an exceptionally well-acted hour of TV. That’s something of a given for This Is Us, but…
Nov 19
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B
“So Long, Marianne” is the perfect case study for the ways in which This Is Us’ love of twists too often distracts…
Nov 12
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B+
On paper, “Sorry” is exactly the kind of present day Big Three-focused episode I usually dread. So imagine my…
Nov 5
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B+
“The Dinner And The Date” delivers exactly what I wish last week’s episode had: An hour of This Is Us that zeroes in…
Oct 29
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B
The best episodes of This Is Us are often the ones that zero in on a specific story or theme, rather than trying to…
Oct 23
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This Is Us has an interesting conundrum on its hands. Back when the show debuted, the present-day Pearsons were a…
Oct 16
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B
— “You have a weird life.”
Oct 9
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“Unhinged” is an interesting conundrum of an episode. I liked, if not outright loved, nearly every one of its…
Oct 2
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Though it may feature a cameo from the master of movie twists, M. Night Shyamalan, tonight’s episode of This Is Us is…
Sep 25
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B
The reason the big twist at the end of the This Is Us pilot worked so well is because no one was expecting a twist…
Apr 2 2019
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There’s only one moment in the This Is Us third season finale that genuinely surprised me. It’s…
Mar 26 2019
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B+
This Is Us has a habit of using poetic, overwritten monologues to clunkily explain the…