“This is real. This is love. This is life.”
Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.
Latest episode: S6 E18 Us (May 24, 2022)
Follows the family lives of Kevin, Kate, and Randall, who are also known as "The Big Three" and share the same birthday, in present time, while revealing their connection to married couple Jack and Rebecca Pearson, who are about to become parents of triplets on Jack's 36th birthday in 1980 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
After a devastating loss of a member of his family and a nervous breakdown, Randall decides to change all their lives by making some bold decisions in order to honour the legacies of his father(s). Kate finally decides to pursue a career in singing, supported by her fiancé Toby, which will put their relationship to the test. Meanwhile, Kevin is reunited with his first love Sophie and about to become a huge movie star, until the ghosts of his past catch up with him. Turns out that "The Big Three" depend on Jack and Rebecca - in more ways than they allow themselves to admit it.
I didn't expect to fall for a network tearjerker. We live in an era of prestige television where cynicism is the default currency, and sincerity often feels like a trap. latestnetflix.com's take is that When Dan Fogelman released This Is Us onto NBC in 2016, the television landscape was mostly populated by antiheroes, vampires, and brooding detectives.
A multi-generational family drama without a criminal hook seemed almost hopelessly quaint. Yet, sitting down with the Pearson family, I kept repeatedly disarmed by how the show maps the jagged, unpredictable borders of human sorrow and joy. It's a massive, sweeping puzzle box of a narrative, but the pieces are entirely emotional.
Fogelman's specific genius here isn't the twisting timelines, though those certainly keep the engine humming. It's his understanding of how the past refuses to stay past. We watch Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Rebecca (Mandy Moore) struggle through the hazy, exhausting trenches of young parenthood in the 1980s, only to immediately see the psychological residue of those years manifested in their adult children.
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