So how did the Pearson story end?
Stupid! If you’ve been watching This Is Us for the past six seasons, you know the answer: Pearson’s story will never end! After all, as Kevin told us in season 1, “I think maybe that’s the point of it all. There’s no death. There’s no you, no me, no them … it’s just us. careless, wild, colorful, magical that has no beginning or end, here it is? I think it’s us. “
The end of the NBC drama series serves as the silent epilogue to its magnificent penultimate episode, “The Train,” which witnessed the death of Pearson’s matriarch Rebecca. Taken together, the two installments serve as a very appropriate delivery for a show that stayed true to itself during its six seasons.
And without further ado, let’s review what happens in “We”. (And be sure to check out our post-mortem chat with series creator Dan Fogelman, as well as a breakdown of the show’s final flash-forward.)
HYMN FOR THE WEEKEND In a flashback, Rebecca sleeps on a Saturday morning and Jack looks at her. He notices a scar under his eyebrow that he had never seen before; she says she has had it since she was little and that she tends to become more prominent when she has had a bit of sun. She, asleep, tells him how, when she was little, her father would take her to a yard and push her on the swings. One day, his watch accidentally made contact with his face as he turned his head, leaving the cut that would turn into a scar. He thinks that his father pushed him on that swing “was my favorite thing in the whole world,” but that he often found it hard to be present, because he worried when they would have to stop and go home. . “I really wish I had spent more time appreciating it when it all happened instead of worrying about when it would end,” he says softly.
When he remembers, they realize that they have a very rare and uncommitted Saturday ahead of them. “What should we do?” she wonders. “Nothing,” Jack says. “Nothing sounds so beautiful!” He replies happily.
Then we have a montage of Jack and Rebecca pushing the three big ones on the swings, followed by Randall and Beth with Tess and Annie on the swings, and Kate and Toby with the little Jack on the swings, and Rockstar Jack (also known as Jack Damon , all grown up) and Lucy pushing her daughter, Hope, on a swing. Although we don’t know at the moment, this is the last look at the future of the flash-forward-happy series.
ENCOURAGING EVERYTHING | At breakfast, however, Jack and Rebecca’s joy for a day off meets Kevin and Randall’s apathy. Kate comes up with the idea of playing Foursquare and drawing on the road with chalk, which they do for a while, but then the rain interferes with the outside plans. Before the Pearsons move in to watch old family movies, Jack notices Kate sitting on the front porch, looking nostalgically at the storm. She says she would like to be able to slow down life, and he agrees.
Inside, Kev barely lasts five minutes before leaving the room in a sigh; Randall, too, doesn’t think it’s great to see pictures of The Big Three when he was little. Rebecca follows Kevin upstairs and discovers that he is very upset because he has not been able to pull the president’s fitness test. (Note on the side: here’s the full transparency: these four words still horrify my heart of childish sedentary lifestyle.) be more special “when you have to work a little harder for them.” Then Kevin, in a rare moment of not feeling bad, tells his mother that he is good with this kind of talk. He likes.
Meanwhile, Jack consults Randall, who quickly confesses that his extracurricular event was not canceled, all the reason the Pearsons ended a day off, but lied to leave because he was suspended for taking retaliation his fellow Mathletes were calling him “Fuzz,” mocking the almost nonexistent hair on his upper lip. Jack realizes that Randall is being punished worse than he or Rebecca could ever do, so instead, he adopts a different strategy and asks his son if he wants to learn how to shave.
Finally, Kevin joins. As the boys carefully pick and scratch their baby’s face, Jack begins to talk about how the first half of your life, you want to be big. But when you grow up, all you want to do is slow things down. Randall and Kevin tell him it’s weird. “Someday you’ll get it,” Jack says. As they descend the stairs, showing off their new male cups, they join Kate to play Pin the Tail on the Donkey. And then, on the LAST FLASHBACK EVER, we go back to when the kids were babies, and Rebecca and Jack saw the game on the toy shelf. Rebecca is amazed at the racial diversity of the children on the cover (“Maybe there’s another family like ours”), and demands that they buy her, because “When the world puts something so obvious to you, don’t not just walk away from it. “He gives in, but sighs that they won’t use it much. (Heh.)
EUOLOGIES AND SCRUBBED OREOS At present, on the morning of Rebecca’s funeral, Randall has not been able to prepare many comments other than “Mother was magic. Mother was … Still, he tells Beth, she’ll be fine. “I think we have to make a scenario of the worst case,” he says, telling her of a future in which she feels the need to buy a caravan and / or travel to Puerto Rico to go swimming “with the ghost of Miguel’s great-grandmother “.”
Randall laughs and reassures her that she’s sad enough, but she’s looking forward to her “next chapter.” He then asks a seemingly strange question about fried Oreos, but we’ll get back to that in a moment.
Outside Kevin’s house, the young cousins play Foursquare while Kate watches. Toby finds her, asks permission to cross her ex-husband’s lines (does he do it every time they talk?), And then says that Rebecca was / is “extraordinarily proud of you”. He then adds that he loves her and that even though his marriage did not go far, he would do it again. Later in the church, we see Nicky, in a very Nicky way, tell Kevin that the moment he appeared in his trailer was the moment he started worrying about living again. “You ended my life, boy,” he jokes.
Rebecca’s funeral is taking place and her three children are talking, although the way the episode is edited makes us not hear what they are saying. Then, back at Kevin’s enclosure, Randall’s daughters find him sitting on the steps of the hut and wonder if he’s okay. He was all night writing his praise, he says, a little dazed, “and I don’t remember a single thing I said.” He also realizes that he was worried about losing Rebecca all his life, “and now he’s gone.” However, he adds, it seems useless.
A LIGHT POINT | Annie and Tess decide to give Déja some time alone with her father; Obviously, she says exactly the right thing. “It’s no use, Dad. Hey, you’re going to be Grandpa, remember? But that only reminds him of the morning he and William left for their trip to Memphis in Season 1. Annie (here are BABIES!), and then she reflects in the hallway outside the girls’ room. You wonder how much Randall’s girls will remember him after he leaves. “Many,” says Randall. it was shot years ago, it was never used and it was taken out at the end.) Also: of all the tender moments in this episode, William’s and Randall’s speech, the answer was the one that affected me the most.
On the porch stairs, Déja happily announces that her baby is a child. “You’ll have a grandson,” she says, wondering if it’s okay if she and Malik name the boy William. “Your grandson will be named after a man I never met, but I know him because I know you,” he says. So wise, this one! Randall, who has been constantly shedding tears throughout the episode, now bursts into joy and stands up to celebrate the imminent arrival of another man in his life full of women. God, Sterling K. Brown is a GIFT.
WHAT’S NEXT? | “You have a creepy glow on you,” Kevin tells his brother as he and Kate join him on the cabin stairs later. True, this can be bypassed-but not unless you’re a techie who knows what he’s doing. They ramble on about what they will do now; Kate says they will continue to do what Rebecca wanted them to do, living great lives full of purpose. For example, it will open many music schools for visually impaired children. Kev will focus on his non-profit organization and “be more at home. I like my home. It took me a long time to get it.”
And Randall? The Democratic National Committee wants him to appear at the Iowa State Fair (hence the previous fried Oreos thing), a common forerunner of an officially announced candidacy for the presidency of the United States. If Beth is on board, “yes, for mom, she could go,” she says. They do a very exaggerated recreation of her singing of the Big Three (throughout the episode, it was the only thing that seemed unrealistic to me), and then the boys assure Kate that they will not separate, something that brings tears and Randall. eyes once again. “People don’t like their presidents all that and all,” Kev teases, but he’s good-natured.
Then they remember how Rebecca took …