^^Made me tear up all over again!!
@Barbalot Thank you for sharing that link! Everyone be sure to read the article and tweets people posted. Loved it!
Thanks for that. Crying again.
Itâs amazing how much the actresses playing young Tess and adult Tess resemble each other.
From the link above:
"In the This Is Us episode âThatâll Be the Day,â Randall told his brother Kevin, âItâs hard to imagine me outliving Dad. Heâs already been gone longer than we had him.â
So, we know Randall outlives his dad in terms of life expectancy. And we know he is adopted. But arenât some heart conditions hereditary? The mentioning of a widowmaker heart attack in the episode could lead us to think that the smoke might have exacerbated things but that Jack died of a heart attack triggered by an existing heart problem. Is this foreshadowing of a similar fate for Kevin or Kate?
Good question!
20 years ago, the Super Bowl was a night game so it shouldâve been dark. I find several nitpicky things about this show and others.
BTW, the actress who plays young Tess was marvelous in that scene.
Thanks, @barbalot. Loved it all over again and I loved the comments in the article.
I saw it last night, too, and was also struck by the daylight during the Superbowl. It wasnât like that 20 years ago, and certainly wasnât like that Sunday night. (Not to mention that it was raining cats and dogs Sunday, followed by a deep freeze. Kevin would not have been sitting outside under a tree without a coat.) I bet if we checked it was pretty cold in Pittsburgh in 1998 for people to be standing around outside in their pajamas, even if their house was burning nearby. Also the bizarre elasticity of time and space that let Kevin suddenly be in what was supposed to be Pittsburgh and then back at his motherâs house 5-6 hours away before it got dark. Nope.
At one point, I thought that maybe This Is Us was going full-Fringe, that in the next episode we will learn that there are really two different dimensions with the same characters in them but slightly different circumstances.
I donât think what they had on TV in the episode was actual Superbowl footage. I think it was actual footage of the teams playing in the Superbowl, something they had two weeks to drop into the finished version of the episode, not 2-3 hours.
I have come to love This Is Us a lot, but itâs definitely an acquired taste, and I had to watch several episodes before I acquired it. I didnât think this was a particularly strong episode. It had some really good bits in it, mainly the fire and its aftermath, and the aftermath of Jackâs death. But someone coming to the show for the first time would not likely have appreciated the contemporary scenes without knowing the characters very thoroughly. And the exposition dropped in for first-time viewers was clunky (âIâm a former sit-com actor in rehab living with his Mom in New Jersey.â âYou found your father, you quit your job, you brought Deja into our house, you started a new company. What else are you going to change?â) A first-time viewer could have seen adult Randallâs goofiness as a problem with Sterling Brownâs performance rather than something true to the character. A first-time viewer would have seen the Kate/Toby segments as talky and static, and probably not understood any of the pathos around the videocam recording.
I would have to watch the episode again but I thought I saw the play where Nick Foles threw an interception in the first half of Sundayâs Super Bowl. Very recognizable play if I am remembering correctly.
I didnât see that! I just saw a shot of the Eagles breaking a huddle, with Folesâ jersey clearly visible.
Yes, that interception was pretty unique. I donât remember seeing any shot on the TV of both Eagles and Patriots in the same shot. If there was anything like that, I take back my earlier comment.
I just read in the paper today (LA Times) that they did put actual footage from the first half of the game into the episode.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-this-is-us-super-bowl-jack-20180205-story.html
Seems like itâs really good story telling, like tonight when the mom said to the spirit of the dad that they were going to be âokâ and it cuts back in time to the footage telling the car salesman that all he wants is the car that will make his family âok.â Donât know if its anything more than good story telling, unless its a story about family and since we all have one, we can relate.
Definitely actual footage from the game.
Last nightâs episode was probably my least favorite thus far. I found it overly corny. I find all the Dr. K scenes pretty corny and cliche anyway. I realize it was a different time period but the whole Jack buying a car thing without the input and involvement of Rebecca was off-putting. I found the whole scene talking to the car salesman corny and unrealistic. Hope next week is better.
Just finished it and Iâm befuddled. The doctor referred to Jack stopping in to see him after the Big 3 were born to have his fears assuaged, but I thought that when they saw the doctor in the hospital having surgery that it was the first time they had seen him since the birth. I guess I interpreted that wrong. It was an okay episode, but not a favorite. I think Memphis is still my favorite.
Not one of my favorite episodes either. I didnât even cry. 
I liked the episode with the exception of the scene between Jack and the car salesman. I thought that was totally silly. The rest was fineâI especially like the scene where Kevin blows up because Randall has Jackâs watch. Iâve seen that sort of thing happen.
Did anyone think it was odd that Rebecca was afraid of bridges? That was right, wasnât it?
They lived in Pittsburgh, which has three rivers intersecting it and approximately, oh I donât know 9000 bridges!
I do not know how you could be afraid of bridges and live in Pittsburgh. Maybe if you never left your house!
The Mackinac bridge is scary, the Bay Bridge is scary. That dinky bridge that you donât even know if itâs over the water, not scary.
Haha, I know, what an odd thing to go on about.
I interpreted that she was just scared of that specific bridge, not all bridges but I could be mistaken (as if something happened previously to Rebecca on that specific bridge).
And whatâs scary about the Bay Bridge??!