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** While most viewers didn't recognize the twist ending, some were able to figure out that Randall had to be somehow related to the others because of the whole birthday concept and the fact that he's the only main character of color among the predominantly white cast. It's the fact that Jack and Rebecca are their parents and lived during a different time period that caught everyone.
** [[spoiler:After the WhamShot of Miguel and Rebecca, most viewers were already guessing that Jack was dead, especially after a line William said in the pilot appeared to have referenced Jack in the past tense. Episode 5 confirmed that he did pass away and Kate keeps his ashes on her mantle.]]
** Quite a few fans called that the reason Kate blames herself for her father’s death was because [[spoiler:he stayed in the burning house to save her dog rather than escaping with the others.]]
** Most fan communities guessed that Kevin would end up with [[spoiler:Sophie]] in the end.
** No one was surprised when [[spoiler:Miguel was out-lived by Rebecca]] despite being much healthier than her. There's TruthInTelevision in this since [[spoiler:most able-bodied caregivers for Alzheimer's and Dementia patients end up declining physically very rapidly while giving care, since they tend to neglect themselves, as Miguel does.]]
** While most viewers didn't recognize the twist ending, some were able to figure out that Randall had to be somehow related to the others because of the whole birthday concept and the fact that he's the only main character of color among the predominantly white cast. It's the fact that Jack and Rebecca are their parents and lived during a different time period that caught everyone.
** [[spoiler:After the WhamShot of Miguel and Rebecca, most viewers were already guessing that Jack was dead, especially after a line William said in the pilot appeared to have referenced Jack in the past tense. Episode 5 confirmed that he did pass away and Kate keeps his ashes on her mantle.]]
** Quite a few fans called that the reason Kate blames herself for her father’s death was because [[spoiler:he stayed in the burning house to save her dog rather than escaping with the others.]]
** Most fan communities guessed that Kevin would end up with [[spoiler:Sophie]] in the end.
** No one was surprised when [[spoiler:Miguel was out-lived by Rebecca]] despite being much healthier than her. There's TruthInTelevision in this since [[spoiler:most able-bodied caregivers for Alzheimer's and Dementia patients end up declining physically very rapidly while giving care, since they tend to neglect themselves, as Miguel does.]]
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* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** After lots of griping about how the actress for teenage Kate is clearly not overweight, it's eventually revealed that during this period she actually had gotten to a healthy weight, but relapsed from it as she didn't feel any better like she was expecting. Explored further with the fact that [[spoiler: after Jack's death, she starts binge eating. In the first few months, she gains 25 pounds. The actress starts wearing padding during this period.]]
** After all the controversy over Toby not being played by a real overweight actor as noted below, they made sure to hire a genuinely blind actor to play [[spoiler:the adult Jack Damon]] in Season 4. The same season also features genuine stroke victim Timothy Omundson playing a character who’s disabled for the same reason, who was created specifically for him.
** Several sites including The AV Club have pointed out that throughout Season 3 and especially Season 4, the show is much more self-aware than it's given credit for and seems fully aware that the Pearsons are often selfish, short-sighted and very emotionally unhealthy. Taken to extremes in "After The Fire" when Randall imagines a schmaltzy, perfect future for himself if Jack had survived the fire – and his therapist rightly calls him out on what he's really projecting. He then imagines a nightmare, worst-case scenario, and the therapist still detects some extremely unhealthy coping mechanisms there. Three seasons ago, Randall would have been seen as TheWoobie, but the show has gradually shown that no character is completely straightforward or sympathetic.
** It's also defied the initial characterization that the show lionized Jack as the ultimate hero dad; the third and fourth seasons start to examine the ways in which the Big Three's idolization and perfect view of their dad has been extremely unhealthy for them, and how a lot of the advice he gave them during formative years actually developed them into adults with terrible coping mechanisms.
** Immediately after the reveal of [[spoiler:Laurel's survival]] in the Season 5 premiere, Dan Fogelman openly announced the very next day that further details about the twist would ''not'' be dragged out for years like Jack's death and the identity of "her" (not least because the show now had a definite endpoint to be working towards). He also stated in no uncertain terms that this was the very ''last'' time the show would do such a twist, nipping any jokes about [[spoiler:"Whoops, turns out Jack survived the fire"]] in the bud.
** A bit later, the season went even further in this direction, as after a winter cliffhanger that [[spoiler:Kate got pregnant as a teenager]], the ''very first line'' after it came back from hiatus casually reveals that [[spoiler:she got an abortion]].
** After many questioned how Beth had managed to get her dance studio up and running seemingly to a point of profitability within one season, and that her and Randall's relative lack of stress about money during the fourth season was unrealistic, Beth's livelihood was among the hardest hit by COVID. By the fifth season, it's a major problem for the family.
** The story of Tess' coming out had gotten some grumblings for years that Randall and Beth don't actually seem to be handling it nearly as well as the show wants us to think. Season 5 has Tess finally call Beth out for it, and acknowledges that while she's clearly making a good effort, refuses to let her off the hook for how it shouldn't take that much work to have the same attachment with Tess as her other daughters.
** Season 5 finally acknowledges how Kevin has built up a reputation for walking out on his commitments, no matter how justified each one was.
** Even though the reveal of Laurel, Randall's birth mother, surviving her OD was still considered one of the biggest AssPull moves the show has ever pulled, the episode "Birth Mother" which reveals her story was one of the most well-reviewed episodes of Season 5, and Randall's moment of closure with his mother's ghost was considered a satisfying conclusion to what could have been an otherwise awful plot.
** Two of the things the show has been criticized for occasionally by activists – adoption and weight – were addressed in more nuanced ways in the fifth and sixth season respectively.
*** For adoption, particularly transracial adoption, the show finally touches on the fact that not all adoptees feel immense gratitude toward their adoptive families, even those who love their adoptive families deeply. Randall's experience and telling Kevin that no one ever considered that he didn't get a choice in being adopted, as well as the stories of the other adoptees in his support group, show that it's much more complicated than simply telling someone to be grateful for being "chosen." The group also highlights the reality that transracial adoptees often lose their language, their cultures and practices, and other connections to who they are when they're adopted – and how processing these emotions can hurt their relationships with their adoptive families.
*** For weight, one of the biggest criticisms of Kate's character is that she is seemingly always defined by her weight and that there are so many plots about her trying to lose weight. As the series goes on, we not only see that her weight gain in her twenties was largely a trauma response – losing Jack and dealing with her relationship with Mark – but also see her confront the fact that shaming herself away from food didn't do her any good. She and Toby develop different views about weight – Toby wants his children to avoid gaining weight because he doesn't want them to be bullied for it, but Kate fears that if her children grow up with sugar and "bad" foods being taboo they won't have healthy relationships with food. The episode with this argument also shows how Kate, Rebecca ''and'' her mother all dealt with food shame at some point in their lives – and the future scenes show that Jack Damon and Hailey are both in relatively good shape, demonstrating that just because Kate let them eat sweets doesn't mean they grew up chubby.
** After lots of griping about how the actress for teenage Kate is clearly not overweight, it's eventually revealed that during this period she actually had gotten to a healthy weight, but relapsed from it as she didn't feel any better like she was expecting. Explored further with the fact that [[spoiler: after Jack's death, she starts binge eating. In the first few months, she gains 25 pounds. The actress starts wearing padding during this period.]]
** After all the controversy over Toby not being played by a real overweight actor as noted below, they made sure to hire a genuinely blind actor to play [[spoiler:the adult Jack Damon]] in Season 4. The same season also features genuine stroke victim Timothy Omundson playing a character who’s disabled for the same reason, who was created specifically for him.
** Several sites including The AV Club have pointed out that throughout Season 3 and especially Season 4, the show is much more self-aware than it's given credit for and seems fully aware that the Pearsons are often selfish, short-sighted and very emotionally unhealthy. Taken to extremes in "After The Fire" when Randall imagines a schmaltzy, perfect future for himself if Jack had survived the fire – and his therapist rightly calls him out on what he's really projecting. He then imagines a nightmare, worst-case scenario, and the therapist still detects some extremely unhealthy coping mechanisms there. Three seasons ago, Randall would have been seen as TheWoobie, but the show has gradually shown that no character is completely straightforward or sympathetic.
** It's also defied the initial characterization that the show lionized Jack as the ultimate hero dad; the third and fourth seasons start to examine the ways in which the Big Three's idolization and perfect view of their dad has been extremely unhealthy for them, and how a lot of the advice he gave them during formative years actually developed them into adults with terrible coping mechanisms.
** Immediately after the reveal of [[spoiler:Laurel's survival]] in the Season 5 premiere, Dan Fogelman openly announced the very next day that further details about the twist would ''not'' be dragged out for years like Jack's death and the identity of "her" (not least because the show now had a definite endpoint to be working towards). He also stated in no uncertain terms that this was the very ''last'' time the show would do such a twist, nipping any jokes about [[spoiler:"Whoops, turns out Jack survived the fire"]] in the bud.
** A bit later, the season went even further in this direction, as after a winter cliffhanger that [[spoiler:Kate got pregnant as a teenager]], the ''very first line'' after it came back from hiatus casually reveals that [[spoiler:she got an abortion]].
** After many questioned how Beth had managed to get her dance studio up and running seemingly to a point of profitability within one season, and that her and Randall's relative lack of stress about money during the fourth season was unrealistic, Beth's livelihood was among the hardest hit by COVID. By the fifth season, it's a major problem for the family.
** The story of Tess' coming out had gotten some grumblings for years that Randall and Beth don't actually seem to be handling it nearly as well as the show wants us to think. Season 5 has Tess finally call Beth out for it, and acknowledges that while she's clearly making a good effort, refuses to let her off the hook for how it shouldn't take that much work to have the same attachment with Tess as her other daughters.
** Season 5 finally acknowledges how Kevin has built up a reputation for walking out on his commitments, no matter how justified each one was.
** Even though the reveal of Laurel, Randall's birth mother, surviving her OD was still considered one of the biggest AssPull moves the show has ever pulled, the episode "Birth Mother" which reveals her story was one of the most well-reviewed episodes of Season 5, and Randall's moment of closure with his mother's ghost was considered a satisfying conclusion to what could have been an otherwise awful plot.
** Two of the things the show has been criticized for occasionally by activists – adoption and weight – were addressed in more nuanced ways in the fifth and sixth season respectively.
*** For adoption, particularly transracial adoption, the show finally touches on the fact that not all adoptees feel immense gratitude toward their adoptive families, even those who love their adoptive families deeply. Randall's experience and telling Kevin that no one ever considered that he didn't get a choice in being adopted, as well as the stories of the other adoptees in his support group, show that it's much more complicated than simply telling someone to be grateful for being "chosen." The group also highlights the reality that transracial adoptees often lose their language, their cultures and practices, and other connections to who they are when they're adopted – and how processing these emotions can hurt their relationships with their adoptive families.
*** For weight, one of the biggest criticisms of Kate's character is that she is seemingly always defined by her weight and that there are so many plots about her trying to lose weight. As the series goes on, we not only see that her weight gain in her twenties was largely a trauma response – losing Jack and dealing with her relationship with Mark – but also see her confront the fact that shaming herself away from food didn't do her any good. She and Toby develop different views about weight – Toby wants his children to avoid gaining weight because he doesn't want them to be bullied for it, but Kate fears that if her children grow up with sugar and "bad" foods being taboo they won't have healthy relationships with food. The episode with this argument also shows how Kate, Rebecca ''and'' her mother all dealt with food shame at some point in their lives – and the future scenes show that Jack Damon and Hailey are both in relatively good shape, demonstrating that just because Kate let them eat sweets doesn't mean they grew up chubby.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** After lots of griping about how the actress for teenage Kate is clearly not overweight, it's eventually revealed that during this period she actually had gotten to a healthy weight, but relapsed from it as she didn't feel any better like she was expecting. Explored further with the fact that [[spoiler: after Jack's death, she starts binge eating. In the first few months, she gains 25 pounds. The actress starts wearing padding during this period.]]
** After all the controversy over Toby not being played by a real overweight actor as noted below, they made sure to hire a genuinely blind actor to play [[spoiler:the adult Jack Damon]] in Season 4. The same season also features genuine stroke victim Timothy Omundson playing a character who’s disabled for the same reason, who was created specifically for him.
** Several sites including The AV Club have pointed out that throughout Season 3 and especially Season 4, the show is much more self-aware than it's given credit for and seems fully aware that the Pearsons are often selfish, short-sighted and very emotionally unhealthy. Taken to extremes in "After The Fire" when Randall imagines a schmaltzy, perfect future for himself if Jack had survived the fire – and his therapist rightly calls him out on what he's really projecting. He then imagines a nightmare, worst-case scenario, and the therapist still detects some extremely unhealthy coping mechanisms there. Three seasons ago, Randall would have been seen as TheWoobie, but the show has gradually shown that no character is completely straightforward or sympathetic.
** It's also defied the initial characterization that the show lionized Jack as the ultimate hero dad; the third and fourth seasons start to examine the ways in which the Big Three's idolization and perfect view of their dad has been extremely unhealthy for them, and how a lot of the advice he gave them during formative years actually developed them into adults with terrible coping mechanisms.
**AuthorsSavingThrow: Immediately after the reveal of [[spoiler:Laurel's survival]] in the Season 5 premiere, Dan Fogelman openly announced the very next day that further details about the twist would ''not'' be dragged out for years like Jack's death and the identity of "her" (not least because the show now had a definite endpoint to be working towards). He also stated in no uncertain terms that this was the very ''last'' time the show would do such a twist, nipping any jokes about [[spoiler:"Whoops, turns out Jack survived the fire"]] in the bud.
** A bit later, the season went even further in this direction, as after a winter cliffhanger that [[spoiler:Kate got pregnant as a teenager]], the ''very first line'' after it came back from hiatus casually reveals that [[spoiler:she got an abortion]].
** After many questioned how Beth had managed to get her dance studio up and running seemingly to a point of profitability within one season, and that her and Randall's relative lack of stress about money during the fourth season was unrealistic, Beth's livelihood was among the hardest hit by COVID. By the fifth season, it's a major problem for the family.
** The story of Tess' coming out had gotten some grumblings for years that Randall and Beth don't actually seem to be handling it nearly as well as the show wants us to think. Season 5 has Tess finally call Beth out for it, and acknowledges that while she's clearly making a good effort, refuses to let her off the hook for how it shouldn't take that much work to have the same attachment with Tess as her other daughters.
** Season 5 finally acknowledges how Kevin has built up a reputation for walking out on his commitments, no matter how justified each one was.
** Even though the reveal of Laurel, Randall's birth mother, surviving her OD was still considered one of the biggest AssPull moves the show has ever pulled, the episode "Birth Mother" which reveals her story was one of the most well-reviewed episodes of Season 5, and Randall's moment of closure with his mother's ghost was considered a satisfying conclusion to what could have been an otherwise awful plot.
** Two of the things the show has been criticized for occasionally by activists – adoption and weight – were addressed in more nuanced ways in the fifth and sixth season respectively.
*** For adoption, particularly transracial adoption, the show finally touches on the fact that not all adoptees feel immense gratitude toward their adoptive families, even those who love their adoptive families deeply. Randall's experience and telling Kevin that no one ever considered that he didn't get a choice in being adopted, as well as the stories of the other adoptees in his support group, show that it's much more complicated than simply telling someone to be grateful for being "chosen." The group also highlights the reality that transracial adoptees often lose their language, their cultures and practices, and other connections to who they are when they're adopted – and how processing these emotions can hurt their relationships with their adoptive families.
*** For weight, one of the biggest criticisms of Kate's character is that she is seemingly always defined by her weight and that there are so many plots about her trying to lose weight. As the series goes on, we not only see that her weight gain in her twenties was largely a trauma response – losing Jack and dealing with her relationship with Mark – but also see her confront the fact that shaming herself away from food didn't do her any good. She and Toby develop different views about weight – Toby wants his children to avoid gaining weight because he doesn't want them to be bullied for it, but Kate fears that if her children grow up with sugar and "bad" foods being taboo they won't have healthy relationships with food. The episode with this argument also shows how Kate, Rebecca ''and'' her mother all dealt with food shame at some point in their lives – and the future scenes show that Jack Damon and Hailey are both in relatively good shape, demonstrating that just because Kate let them eat sweets doesn't mean they grew up chubby.bud.
** After lots of griping about how the actress for teenage Kate is clearly not overweight, it's eventually revealed that during this period she actually had gotten to a healthy weight, but relapsed from it as she didn't feel any better like she was expecting. Explored further with the fact that [[spoiler: after Jack's death, she starts binge eating. In the first few months, she gains 25 pounds. The actress starts wearing padding during this period.]]
** After all the controversy over Toby not being played by a real overweight actor as noted below, they made sure to hire a genuinely blind actor to play [[spoiler:the adult Jack Damon]] in Season 4. The same season also features genuine stroke victim Timothy Omundson playing a character who’s disabled for the same reason, who was created specifically for him.
** Several sites including The AV Club have pointed out that throughout Season 3 and especially Season 4, the show is much more self-aware than it's given credit for and seems fully aware that the Pearsons are often selfish, short-sighted and very emotionally unhealthy. Taken to extremes in "After The Fire" when Randall imagines a schmaltzy, perfect future for himself if Jack had survived the fire – and his therapist rightly calls him out on what he's really projecting. He then imagines a nightmare, worst-case scenario, and the therapist still detects some extremely unhealthy coping mechanisms there. Three seasons ago, Randall would have been seen as TheWoobie, but the show has gradually shown that no character is completely straightforward or sympathetic.
** It's also defied the initial characterization that the show lionized Jack as the ultimate hero dad; the third and fourth seasons start to examine the ways in which the Big Three's idolization and perfect view of their dad has been extremely unhealthy for them, and how a lot of the advice he gave them during formative years actually developed them into adults with terrible coping mechanisms.
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** A bit later, the season went even further in this direction, as after a winter cliffhanger that [[spoiler:Kate got pregnant as a teenager]], the ''very first line'' after it came back from hiatus casually reveals that [[spoiler:she got an abortion]].
** After many questioned how Beth had managed to get her dance studio up and running seemingly to a point of profitability within one season, and that her and Randall's relative lack of stress about money during the fourth season was unrealistic, Beth's livelihood was among the hardest hit by COVID. By the fifth season, it's a major problem for the family.
** The story of Tess' coming out had gotten some grumblings for years that Randall and Beth don't actually seem to be handling it nearly as well as the show wants us to think. Season 5 has Tess finally call Beth out for it, and acknowledges that while she's clearly making a good effort, refuses to let her off the hook for how it shouldn't take that much work to have the same attachment with Tess as her other daughters.
** Season 5 finally acknowledges how Kevin has built up a reputation for walking out on his commitments, no matter how justified each one was.
** Even though the reveal of Laurel, Randall's birth mother, surviving her OD was still considered one of the biggest AssPull moves the show has ever pulled, the episode "Birth Mother" which reveals her story was one of the most well-reviewed episodes of Season 5, and Randall's moment of closure with his mother's ghost was considered a satisfying conclusion to what could have been an otherwise awful plot.
** Two of the things the show has been criticized for occasionally by activists – adoption and weight – were addressed in more nuanced ways in the fifth and sixth season respectively.
*** For adoption, particularly transracial adoption, the show finally touches on the fact that not all adoptees feel immense gratitude toward their adoptive families, even those who love their adoptive families deeply. Randall's experience and telling Kevin that no one ever considered that he didn't get a choice in being adopted, as well as the stories of the other adoptees in his support group, show that it's much more complicated than simply telling someone to be grateful for being "chosen." The group also highlights the reality that transracial adoptees often lose their language, their cultures and practices, and other connections to who they are when they're adopted – and how processing these emotions can hurt their relationships with their adoptive families.
*** For weight, one of the biggest criticisms of Kate's character is that she is seemingly always defined by her weight and that there are so many plots about her trying to lose weight. As the series goes on, we not only see that her weight gain in her twenties was largely a trauma response – losing Jack and dealing with her relationship with Mark – but also see her confront the fact that shaming herself away from food didn't do her any good. She and Toby develop different views about weight – Toby wants his children to avoid gaining weight because he doesn't want them to be bullied for it, but Kate fears that if her children grow up with sugar and "bad" foods being taboo they won't have healthy relationships with food. The episode with this argument also shows how Kate, Rebecca ''and'' her mother all dealt with food shame at some point in their lives – and the future scenes show that Jack Damon and Hailey are both in relatively good shape, demonstrating that just because Kate let them eat sweets doesn't mean they grew up chubby.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** After lots of griping about how the actress for teenage Kate is clearly not overweight, it's eventually revealed that during this period she actually had gotten to a healthy weight, but relapsed from it as she didn't feel any better like she was expecting. Explored further with the fact that [[spoiler: after Jack's death, she starts binge eating. In the first few months, she gains 25 pounds. The actress starts wearing padding during this period.]]
** After all the controversy over Toby not being played by a real overweight actor as noted below, they made sure to hire a genuinely blind actor to play [[spoiler:the adult Jack Damon]] in Season 4. The same season also features genuine stroke victim Timothy Omundson playing a character who’s disabled for the same reason, who was created specifically for him.
** Several sites including The AV Club have pointed out that throughout Season 3 and especially Season 4, the show is much more self-aware than it's given credit for and seems fully aware that the Pearsons are often selfish, short-sighted and very emotionally unhealthy. Taken to extremes in "After The Fire" when Randall imagines a schmaltzy, perfect future for himself if Jack had survived the fire – and his therapist rightly calls him out on what he's really projecting. He then imagines a nightmare, worst-case scenario, and the therapist still detects some extremely unhealthy coping mechanisms there. Three seasons ago, Randall would have been seen as TheWoobie, but the show has gradually shown that no character is completely straightforward or sympathetic.
** It's also defied the initial characterization that the show lionized Jack as the ultimate hero dad; the third and fourth seasons start to examine the ways in which the Big Three's idolization and perfect view of their dad has been extremely unhealthy for them, and how a lot of the advice he gave them during formative years actually developed them into adults with terrible coping mechanisms.
** Immediately after the reveal of [[spoiler:Laurel's survival]] in the Season 5 premiere, Dan Fogelman openly announced the very next day that further details about the twist would ''not'' be dragged out for years like Jack's death and the identity of "her" (not least because the show now had a definite endpoint to be working towards). He also stated in no uncertain terms that this was the very ''last'' time the show would do such a twist, nipping any jokes about [[spoiler:"Whoops, turns out Jack survived the fire"]] in the bud.
** A bit later, the season went even further in this direction, as after a winter cliffhanger that [[spoiler:Kate got pregnant as a teenager]], the ''very first line'' after it came back from hiatus casually reveals that [[spoiler:she got an abortion]].
** After many questioned how Beth had managed to get her dance studio up and running seemingly to a point of profitability within one season, and that her and Randall's relative lack of stress about money during the fourth season was unrealistic, Beth's livelihood was among the hardest hit by COVID. By the fifth season, it's a major problem for the family.
** The story of Tess' coming out had gotten some grumblings for years that Randall and Beth don't actually seem to be handling it nearly as well as the show wants us to think. Season 5 has Tess finally call Beth out for it, and acknowledges that while she's clearly making a good effort, refuses to let her off the hook for how it shouldn't take that much work to have the same attachment with Tess as her other daughters.
** Season 5 finally acknowledges how Kevin has built up a reputation for walking out on his commitments, no matter how justified each one was.
** Even though the reveal of Laurel, Randall's birth mother, surviving her OD was still considered one of the biggest AssPull moves the show has ever pulled, the episode "Birth Mother" which reveals her story was one of the most well-reviewed episodes of Season 5, and Randall's moment of closure with his mother's ghost was considered a satisfying conclusion to what could have been an otherwise awful plot.
** Two of the things the show has been criticized for occasionally by activists – adoption and weight – were addressed in more nuanced ways in the fifth and sixth season respectively.
*** For adoption, particularly transracial adoption, the show finally touches on the fact that not all adoptees feel immense gratitude toward their adoptive families, even those who love their adoptive families deeply. Randall's experience and telling Kevin that no one ever considered that he didn't get a choice in being adopted, as well as the stories of the other adoptees in his support group, show that it's much more complicated than simply telling someone to be grateful for being "chosen." The group also highlights the reality that transracial adoptees often lose their language, their cultures and practices, and other connections to who they are when they're adopted – and how processing these emotions can hurt their relationships with their adoptive families.
*** For weight, one of the biggest criticisms of Kate's character is that she is seemingly always defined by her weight and that there are so many plots about her trying to lose weight. As the series goes on, we not only see that her weight gain in her twenties was largely a trauma response – losing Jack and dealing with her relationship with Mark – but also see her confront the fact that shaming herself away from food didn't do her any good. She and Toby develop different views about weight – Toby wants his children to avoid gaining weight because he doesn't want them to be bullied for it, but Kate fears that if her children grow up with sugar and "bad" foods being taboo they won't have healthy relationships with food. The episode with this argument also shows how Kate, Rebecca ''and'' her mother all dealt with food shame at some point in their lives – and the future scenes show that Jack Damon and Hailey are both in relatively good shape, demonstrating that just because Kate let them eat sweets doesn't mean they grew up chubby.
** After lots of griping about how the actress for teenage Kate is clearly not overweight, it's eventually revealed that during this period she actually had gotten to a healthy weight, but relapsed from it as she didn't feel any better like she was expecting. Explored further with the fact that [[spoiler: after Jack's death, she starts binge eating. In the first few months, she gains 25 pounds. The actress starts wearing padding during this period.]]
** After all the controversy over Toby not being played by a real overweight actor as noted below, they made sure to hire a genuinely blind actor to play [[spoiler:the adult Jack Damon]] in Season 4. The same season also features genuine stroke victim Timothy Omundson playing a character who’s disabled for the same reason, who was created specifically for him.
** Several sites including The AV Club have pointed out that throughout Season 3 and especially Season 4, the show is much more self-aware than it's given credit for and seems fully aware that the Pearsons are often selfish, short-sighted and very emotionally unhealthy. Taken to extremes in "After The Fire" when Randall imagines a schmaltzy, perfect future for himself if Jack had survived the fire – and his therapist rightly calls him out on what he's really projecting. He then imagines a nightmare, worst-case scenario, and the therapist still detects some extremely unhealthy coping mechanisms there. Three seasons ago, Randall would have been seen as TheWoobie, but the show has gradually shown that no character is completely straightforward or sympathetic.
** It's also defied the initial characterization that the show lionized Jack as the ultimate hero dad; the third and fourth seasons start to examine the ways in which the Big Three's idolization and perfect view of their dad has been extremely unhealthy for them, and how a lot of the advice he gave them during formative years actually developed them into adults with terrible coping mechanisms.
** Immediately after the reveal of [[spoiler:Laurel's survival]] in the Season 5 premiere, Dan Fogelman openly announced the very next day that further details about the twist would ''not'' be dragged out for years like Jack's death and the identity of "her" (not least because the show now had a definite endpoint to be working towards). He also stated in no uncertain terms that this was the very ''last'' time the show would do such a twist, nipping any jokes about [[spoiler:"Whoops, turns out Jack survived the fire"]] in the bud.
** A bit later, the season went even further in this direction, as after a winter cliffhanger that [[spoiler:Kate got pregnant as a teenager]], the ''very first line'' after it came back from hiatus casually reveals that [[spoiler:she got an abortion]].
** After many questioned how Beth had managed to get her dance studio up and running seemingly to a point of profitability within one season, and that her and Randall's relative lack of stress about money during the fourth season was unrealistic, Beth's livelihood was among the hardest hit by COVID. By the fifth season, it's a major problem for the family.
** The story of Tess' coming out had gotten some grumblings for years that Randall and Beth don't actually seem to be handling it nearly as well as the show wants us to think. Season 5 has Tess finally call Beth out for it, and acknowledges that while she's clearly making a good effort, refuses to let her off the hook for how it shouldn't take that much work to have the same attachment with Tess as her other daughters.
** Season 5 finally acknowledges how Kevin has built up a reputation for walking out on his commitments, no matter how justified each one was.
** Even though the reveal of Laurel, Randall's birth mother, surviving her OD was still considered one of the biggest AssPull moves the show has ever pulled, the episode "Birth Mother" which reveals her story was one of the most well-reviewed episodes of Season 5, and Randall's moment of closure with his mother's ghost was considered a satisfying conclusion to what could have been an otherwise awful plot.
** Two of the things the show has been criticized for occasionally by activists – adoption and weight – were addressed in more nuanced ways in the fifth and sixth season respectively.
*** For adoption, particularly transracial adoption, the show finally touches on the fact that not all adoptees feel immense gratitude toward their adoptive families, even those who love their adoptive families deeply. Randall's experience and telling Kevin that no one ever considered that he didn't get a choice in being adopted, as well as the stories of the other adoptees in his support group, show that it's much more complicated than simply telling someone to be grateful for being "chosen." The group also highlights the reality that transracial adoptees often lose their language, their cultures and practices, and other connections to who they are when they're adopted – and how processing these emotions can hurt their relationships with their adoptive families.
*** For weight, one of the biggest criticisms of Kate's character is that she is seemingly always defined by her weight and that there are so many plots about her trying to lose weight. As the series goes on, we not only see that her weight gain in her twenties was largely a trauma response – losing Jack and dealing with her relationship with Mark – but also see her confront the fact that shaming herself away from food didn't do her any good. She and Toby develop different views about weight – Toby wants his children to avoid gaining weight because he doesn't want them to be bullied for it, but Kate fears that if her children grow up with sugar and "bad" foods being taboo they won't have healthy relationships with food. The episode with this argument also shows how Kate, Rebecca ''and'' her mother all dealt with food shame at some point in their lives – and the future scenes show that Jack Damon and Hailey are both in relatively good shape, demonstrating that just because Kate let them eat sweets doesn't mean they grew up chubby.
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* ContentLeak: [[spoiler:After "The Day of the Wedding", which ended on a cliffhanger revealing Kevin spent time with Sophie, Cassidy, and Arielle (the wedding singer) the night before Kate's wedding and driving up the drama about which one will be Kevin's wife, Ken Olin posted a photo from flashforward filming with only Sophie present, seemingly confirming she will be Kevin's wife in the future.]]
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* ContentLeak: [[spoiler:After "The Day After the first airing of [[Recap/ThisIsUsS6E13DayOfTheWedding "Day of the Wedding", Wedding"]], which ended on a cliffhanger revealing Kevin spent time with Sophie, Cassidy, and Arielle (the wedding singer) the night before Kate's wedding and driving up the drama about which one of those three women will be Kevin's wife, Ken Olin posted a photo from [[spoiler: flashforward filming with only Sophie present, present]], seemingly confirming she will be Kevin's wife in the future.]]
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** A few months after the series finale, Alexandra Breckenridge confirmed in an interview that the original plan for her return was for her to become pregnant, suggesting Kevin’s “pregnant fiancee” teased in Season 4 was supposed to be Sophie and not Madison. This plan was changed due to her commitments to VirginRiver.
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** A few months after the series finale, Alexandra Breckenridge confirmed in an interview that the original plan for her return was for her to become pregnant, suggesting Kevin’s “pregnant fiancee” teased in Season 4 was supposed to be Sophie and not Madison. This plan was changed due to her commitments to VirginRiver.''Series/VirginRiver''.
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** Hailey, Nicky and Franny are 12-13;
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** Beth is 51
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** Nicky is approximately 85
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** A few months after the series finale, Alexandra Breckenridge confirmed in an interview that the original plan for her return was for her to become pregnant, suggesting Kevin’s “pregnant fiancee” teased in Season 4 was supposed to be her and not Madison. This plan was changed due to her commitments to VirginRiver.
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** A few months after the series finale, Alexandra Breckenridge confirmed in an interview that the original plan for her return was for her to become pregnant, suggesting Kevin’s “pregnant fiancee” teased in Season 4 was supposed to be her Sophie and not Madison. This plan was changed due to her commitments to VirginRiver.
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** A few months after the series finale, Alexandra Breckenridge confirmed in an interview that the original plan for her return was for her to become pregnant, suggesting Kevin’s “pregnant fiancee” teased in Season 4 was supposed to be her and not Madison. This plan was changed due to her commitments to VirginRiver.
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* SeperatedAtBirthCasting: The use of [[TimeShiftedActor time-shifted actors]] is generally agreed to have resulted in many strong matches.
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* SeperatedAtBirthCasting: SeparatedAtBirthCasting: The use of [[TimeShiftedActor time-shifted actors]] is generally agreed to have resulted in many strong matches.
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* RoleEndingMisdemeanor: Creator/PhyliciaRashad's infamous public support for Creator/BillCosby's release from prison is generally believed to be why Mama C doesn't appear in Season 6.
* SeperatedAtBirthCasting: The use of [[TimeShiftedActor time-shifted actors]] is generally agreed to have resulted in many strong matches.
** Even before she was made up to look like she's gaining weight, Hannah Zeile bore an incredible likeness to Chrissy Metz.
** Rachel Hilson is widely agreed to be the spitting of image of Susan Kelechi Watson.
** Jermel Nakia proves to be quite convincing as a young Ron Cephas Jones.
* SeperatedAtBirthCasting: The use of [[TimeShiftedActor time-shifted actors]] is generally agreed to have resulted in many strong matches.
** Even before she was made up to look like she's gaining weight, Hannah Zeile bore an incredible likeness to Chrissy Metz.
** Rachel Hilson is widely agreed to be the spitting of image of Susan Kelechi Watson.
** Jermel Nakia proves to be quite convincing as a young Ron Cephas Jones.
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** Susan Kelechi Watson co-wrote "Our Little Island Girl: Part 2," which heavily focuses on Beth Pearson.
** Chrissy Metz co-wrote "The Hill", which focuses on Kate Pearson.
** Chrissy Metz co-wrote "The Hill", which focuses on Kate Pearson.
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** Susan Kelechi Watson co-wrote [[Recap/ThisIsUsS6E06OurLittleIslandGirlPartII "Our Little Island Girl: Part 2," II"]], which heavily focuses on Beth Pearson.
** Chrissy Metz co-wrote [[Recap/ThisIsUsS6E09TheHill "TheHill", Hill"]], which focuses on Kate Pearson.
** Chrissy Metz co-wrote [[Recap/ThisIsUsS6E09TheHill "The
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* ReferencedBy: An episode of ''Series/WillAndGrace''. In "The Wedding," Jack [=McFarland=] (Creator/SeanHayes) claims to have a foolproof method to find the one gay cop out of a group of cops. He asks them one by one what their favorite show is. Most of them predictably say ''Series/TheWire''. But Officer Drew (Ryan Pinkston) says his favorite show is ''This Is Us''. Soon Jack and Drew hook up in the men's room. By the way, Officer Murphy is played by Jack [=McGee=], who has so far appeared on one episode of ''This Is Us''.
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* ReferencedBy: ReferencedBy:
** An episode of ''Series/WillAndGrace''. In "The Wedding," Jack [=McFarland=] (Creator/SeanHayes) claims to have a foolproof method to find the one gay cop out of a group of cops. He asks them one by one what their favorite show is. Most of them predictably say ''Series/TheWire''. But Officer Drew (Ryan Pinkston) says his favorite show is ''This Is Us''. Soon Jack and Drew hook up in the men's room. By the way, Officer Murphy is played by Jack [=McGee=], who has so far appeared on one episode of ''This IsUs''.Us''.
** An episode of ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'' that first aired in June 2022, promising an even sadder seventh season of ''This Is Us'' in which every single episode is a funeral.
** An episode of ''Series/WillAndGrace''. In "The Wedding," Jack [=McFarland=] (Creator/SeanHayes) claims to have a foolproof method to find the one gay cop out of a group of cops. He asks them one by one what their favorite show is. Most of them predictably say ''Series/TheWire''. But Officer Drew (Ryan Pinkston) says his favorite show is ''This Is Us''. Soon Jack and Drew hook up in the men's room. By the way, Officer Murphy is played by Jack [=McGee=], who has so far appeared on one episode of ''This Is
** An episode of ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'' that first aired in June 2022, promising an even sadder seventh season of ''This Is Us'' in which every single episode is a funeral.
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** No one was surprised when [[spoiler:Miguel was out-lived by Rebecca]] despite being much healthier than her. There's TruthInTelevision in this since [[spoiler:most able-bodied caregivers for Alzheimer's and Dementia patients end up declining physically very rapidly while giving care, since they tend to neglect themselves, as Miguel does.]]
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* AllThereInTheManual: In the years that take place after Kate's second wedding, the years are never specified. However, Mandy Moore shared the official prop or the funeral booklet for Rebecca done by show creators, which confirms that Rebecca died in 1933. While the time of year is not specified, this means:
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* AllThereInTheManual: In the years that take place after Kate's second wedding, the years are never specified. However, Mandy Moore shared the official prop or the funeral booklet for Rebecca done by show creators, which confirms that Rebecca died in 1933.2033 at the age of 82. While the time of year is not specified, this means:
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** Rebecca lived another seven years after Kate's second wedding.
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** Rebecca lived another seven years after Kate's second wedding.wedding;
** Since Fogelman has stated that the Adult Jack Damon scenes take place 12 years after Rebecca passes, this means it is 2045 and Jack meets Lucy at age 26. When Kate, Toby, Phillip and Lauren watch his show, they are all in their mid-60s.
** Since Fogelman has stated that the Adult Jack Damon scenes take place 12 years after Rebecca passes, this means it is 2045 and Jack meets Lucy at age 26. When Kate, Toby, Phillip and Lauren watch his show, they are all in their mid-60s.
