The season finale had to have been more like 25 years ahead as baby Jack was now an accomplished singer. Or was that not in the finale and was even further ahead in time?
Argh. My antenna wasn’t set quite right and I DVR’d it glitchy. It was pretty good through almost the entire thing, but the last 10 minutes or so I know it skipped a bunch.
Am I the only one who thought Randall might have become a “congressman” just for a brief second? I was thinking it may have been another future scene, but then realized Rebecca was confused.
I loved how Beth announced she was visiting the pantry at an opportune time.
I thought it was an example of how she’s forgetting things, but that it’s the kind of thing they’ll go back to if he does indeed become a congressperson.
On Cassidy, my thought is that she gets pregnant from the one-night stand.
I am afraid this signals that Rebecca has Alzheimer’s or similar dementia, which is not a story line I really want to see. Made me think of the list someone posted earlier of all the issues the show has dealt with. Add this to the list.
Beth was great last night. Her concerns about Melik pressuring Deja and then finding out the real reason and the pantry visit were spot on.
I did find Uncle Nicky’s transformation a bit quick. But perhaps he was really ready to stop drinking and accept Kevin’s help. I liked his appreciation during the trial. I have a feeling we will still see more of Cassidy.
We never saw Jack in last season’s finale, and have only seen him as an adult in this season’s first episode. We have no idea how old he is when they’re around Rebecca’s bed.
GD was born in CA and mashed avocado was her first solid food too.
Good episode. I definitely don’t think we saw the last of Cassidy. I think Kevin will realize he needs Cassidy and Nicky in his life. I really like the three of them together.
Alzheimer story line hits a little close to home here too. That definitely appears to be where it is leading, although they have fooled us before.
Beth’s visit to the Pantry was very cute.
How about the 3 as toddlers? We got a brief glimpse under a sheet. They were adorable. I hope we see more.
@“Youdon’tsay” I think the flash forward to Rebecca was the season finale last year. Jack grown up and singing was the first episode of this season.
I generally watch most shows the day after and, since I don’t worry about the spoilers, I checked in on this thread this morning. I was excited by the positive buzz, so when I got home from school I made time immediately to watch last night’s episode. It did not disappoint! So many feels. I’m not sure which part was most touching, but probably Randall and Rebecca past & present. Nicky at his hearing, Cassidy having dinner with the exH & S, and Kevin seeking his dad’s approval - wow, wow, wow! Last week was really good, but this week was the season’s best to date for me. Even the avocado for Jack and Kate interacting with the neighbor were such good scenes.
I think they were ending the Cassidy story arc. They could always revive it, of course, but I’m betting it’s done for this season, at least. I appreciated that they were ending it without making such a big deal of it – Kevin wasn’t responsible for destroying her marriage or screwing up her life, and she’s not looking for anything more from him. Whether he decides he’s looking for anything at all from her is another question. But I liked the idea that not every story about a relationship between consenting adults has to be Anna Karenina. (I also really appreciated how the show had Jennifer Morrison look her age, and not be glamorous at all, while of course remaining quite beautiful.)
Meanwhile, I continue to be floored by how good the actress who plays Deja is. The script gives her really complex motivations, and she manages to communicate all of them with her facial expressions, body language, and voice timbre, not just her “lines.”
I missed something. What was the thing that Randall said to his mom (when making the bed) that his mom found so rude?
It was an implication that he had been taking care of her since Jack’s death and not the other way around.
FYI, the actor who plays the neighbor who had a stroke is played by an actor who really did have a stroke. I had no idea. He was on the Kelly Clarkson show today.
Count me in as one who isn’t thrilled about the Alzheimer’s/dementia story line.
To that end, am I the only one that doesn’t find “misplacing” a phone all that alarming? I do that all the time - end up calling it from my house phone! I also didn’t find her reaction/anger to Randall all that surprising. I know plenty of older parents that get VERY annoyed when their adult children try and tell them what to do. She clearly said she only had a few days with her granddaughters and didn’t want to see a doctor. I get that!
I do think the scene for next week, when she appears lost, is more alarming and indicative of a problem.
@dwhite. Totally agree with all of your points. Both my husband and I and our two teens lose our phones all the time. I thought the storyline was headed more towards a phone addiction type of conversation but now it does look like Alzheimer’s. I just don’t really like the way they portray the older Rebecca. When did she lose her “spark”? Even after her husband died she still seemed to have so much life in her. But now she just seems so boring.
And it’s not like Randall could just whisk her in to see a doctor. My doctor has a 6 month wait right now for a physical and I think that’s pretty typical.
I really liked the Kevin, Cassidy, Nicky storyline. I hope they return to that at some point. Toby and Kate just seem like they don’t have much of a storyline right now. Kate just seems like she is always nagging, I mean the man has to go to work.
Adding:
Alzheimer’s Disease
It hurts to say it, but this is exactly what I’ve seen in my mom over the past few years. Her decline happened fairly quickly, too. Gosh, one month I could hardly keep up with her when we went shopping and the next she was moving slowly and wanted to be out only a little while. 
And with her, it WAS incidents like losing a phone - just lots of them. That’s what the kids notice first. When my sister and I tried explaining our concerns to her doctor, at first he’d say, “Well, everybody loses their phone…” Yeah, but it’s this and this and this and this, too! I used to talk to Mom every day on the phone, even when I had to pay for long distance. Now we talk maybe once a month, because she can’t think of a thing to say and if I ask her questions she doesn’t know the answers.
In the show, it wasn’t just losing her phone. It was her panic at losing the phone – she knows something more serious is implicated. It was her insistence on taking pictures of everything to help her remember, and her difficulty in finding a particular picture she wanted to find. It was her calling Randall a congressman. It’s her defensiveness. She’s worried; she’s panicked; she’s compensating.
@JHS, good points. My mom does get very defensive. 
She thinks she is handling finances fine, but she isn’t. Dad had to hire someone to take care of bookkeeping, and Mom was getting upset when the woman came over. So I suggested that their QuickBooks file be copied to a secure location. Mom can “take care of” the original file while the new one is the real record. It’s hard.
Not to go off on a tangent, but my mom has been exhibiting memory issues for about six months. On top of that, she seems very depressed. My dad died almost 7 years ago, and the last year she has been as grief stricken as the day he died. It’s literally all she speaks of, spends a lot of time looking through photo albums and living in the past. She does do outside activities and has friends, but she never seems happy. A few months ago the family went away for a weekend and she picked fights with everyone. It was out of character, and she didn’t speak to me for weeks afterwards. I don’t know if it’s all related or what. Should I make an appointment to see someone with her? What kind of doctor would that be? Anyone else experience this type of thing? It’s getting difficult to spend time on the phone or in person with her; it’s so draining. There is no cheering her up or even getting her off topic.