Oh em gee…not liking where this is going!!! I love Beth and Randall!!!
So Randall will win the election, despite the odds, and she will leave?? Or will her disengagement from is political activities sabotage his effort?
Nicky? Beth and Randall? Pin the Tail on the Donkey? Lots of questions!!
I thought it was a great episode but I was bummed to see it was the holiday hiatus and we have to wait 6 weeks for another show, darnit !
Someone will need to remind me where we left off. Too long a break for me.
I think I correctly guessed who her was.
Grown up Kate with her hair pulled back looks so much like teen-age Kate, IMO.
One question answered, but so many more asked!
I was not able to see the whole episode/ What q was answered? And what was the story with the necklace form Vietnam? And I am gathering Nick suicided?
No - Nick is alive! The very last scene showed him in what looked like a trailer with mail on the counter addressed to Nicholas Pearson in Bradford, PA.
The question that was answered was who the person was that grown-up Tess and Randall were on their way to see – it was Rebecca.
The question of the Vietnamese woman and the necklace wasn’t answered.
The only question answered was who “she” was (Rebecca), but we still don’t know why they are going to see her. The necklace was a dead end when they found a stand selling similar necklaces. I thought Nick committed suicide, too, except the ending showed an older man in a trailer, with a letter with Nick’s name and an address in PA.
Deja wanting to see her mom and Tess believing she might be gay aren’t big problems, but if something is happening between Deja and Tess, there is a big problem.
Really nice episode, full of great speeches. Kate “We’re both terrified.” Rebecca “I don’t want you to grow up like me.” Randall’s debate. The Vietnamese 50-something “Maybe this is the answer.” They were swinging for the fences, and they didn’t even have an appearance by William.
I am mystified, however, at the notion that Jack could have let Nicky be “dead.” Also, how did Beth all of a sudden turn into a selfish, destructive person?
And . . . what secrets was Rebecca keeping from her husband? (Other than, I guess, her ongoing correspondence with William. So maybe that wasn’t the bombshell it felt like when she said it.)
Ah. I heard what sounded like a gunshot (apparently it was a boat explosion) and saw Jack jump into the river. Was guessing it was to find Nick.
Nicky said he wasn’t going to fulfill the goal. I suspect when he told Jack not to follow him, he staged his death and went AWOL. Jack didn’t let Nicky be dead - to him he really was dead.
I may be in the minority but this whole Vietnam plot isn’t holding my interest. Maybe it’s because we don’t know Nicky as a character, yet - so I don’t really care about him all that much (and also Jack’s hair length is a huge distraction for me (beautiful hair, but come on - no military service member would be allowed to keep it that long)). So, the Nicky reveal at the end didn’t really blow me away (as other “gotcha” moments on this show have). I’m hoping Beth and Randall work through their issues (I would think given their relationship, they do). I like how they handled Tess telling her parents and their response.
Stealing a page from Mad Men.
The actor who plays Nick is very good. I’d like to see more of him. I suspect that Kevin will find Nick and the family will end up having a relationship with him.
As for Rebecca, I’m thinking she has Alzheimer’s.
Or maybe Nick did something so bad, he was dead to him? Or the Nicky that he knew was dead?
Totally agree with nukesmom about the whole Vietnam story line. If Nick was thought to have committed suicide, wouldn’t his name be on the list of casualties? I would hope they counted those guys, too.
Yeah, I don’t think Nicky committed suicide. At this point, I’m thinking some kind of atrocity – killing women and children, maybe even the woman in the picture with Jack and her child – and he was imprisoned for it and maybe not released until after Jack died. But . . . I still have a hard time with Jack treating him as dead.
I think it may emerge eventually that the Vietnamese guy knew perfectly well who Jack, Nicky, and the woman were.
I don’t really mind the Vietnam subplot, however not-quite-realistic it is. It keeps Milo Ventimiglia on the screen, and it gives the Kevin character something to do besides agonize over his relationship issues, seduce the guest star du jour, and relapse. And it’s an appropriate reminder to a generation that more or less has its own Vietnam now that the wheel can turn a few times over the course of a generation or two. TV barely touches the military any more, and when it does it’s almost always as a triumphalist narrative – SEALs or Green Berets doing the impossible, the NCIS guys saving the world several times a week. This is at least an attempt to tell a nuanced story that resonates with contemporary experience.
Anything that keeps Milo on the screen I’m all for. Love that guy. I agree that Kevin will eventually find Nicky and that will be the story book ending he’s searching for–getting to know Jack better through his brother. I love Chrissy Metz too! To me, she’s the best thing about the show, though I’m a big fan of Sterling K. Brown.
Loved the gender reveal scene. Wish other characters had been invited, but what joy! I definitely was brought to tears a couple times esp when Beth and Randall told their daughter Tess that there was nothing more to see than 2 parents who loved their child more than anything in the world. Still tearing up over that. Feel the same way about my girls.
Sterling K Brown said on Twitter earlier this season that Randall and Beth would have a rough patch but that basically they would be ok - I’m hanging onto that. However, the whole thing with Beth at the ballet (is that her future job? Or was she there watching someone dance? And yes, what about the board game?!) has me very curious.
I also melted in a puddle when Tess talked to her parents and Beth’s response. Pud.dle.
Rebecca mentions her aches and pains being a by product of keeping her emotions to herself - was that some kind of foreshadowing to her later condition? It would seem that in the future - how far in the future do you think that scene was? - that Rebecca would have to be 70’s if not 80’s???