Is this show on the decline?
This season is not interesting at all. They seem to be recycling themes too, like bringing back characters from the dead.
shareYeah, shows like this seem to peak relatively fast. See: thirtysomething.
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There's really not much more you can do.
Randall hates all white people because of the riots.
Jack still dies in a fire.
Rebecca still has alzheimer's.
Toby still loves Star Wars.
Kevin struggles so, because there aren't enough white male actors over 40 in Hollywood.
Kate had an abortion.
Then the "fall finale". Whatever TF that is.
All the usual stuff. The close-up shot with sad music in the background. Go figure?
Roll Credits and NBC promo:
"Next week on This is Us..."
Or in 2 weeks. Or in 4 weeks.
"It's just 12 weeks until..."
The constant flashbacks got boring a while ago and every character seems to get a flashback.
It is also built around upping the drama and that also got stupid a while back now it's ridiculous with the ever dull Randall finding out his mother didn't die as he thought.
Next season we will find out Jack survived the fire and just didn't want to be aroun his obnoxious kids anymore.
It's like Star Wars now: resurrecting dead characters just to kill them again.
shareThe Randall/Laurel episode was ok. I still object to the premise of reviving the dead mom just to kill her off again. But I did like the Laurel story as a stand alone watch. I liked the quality of the acting, writing, story arc of it. It was like a field trip from the usual TIU storyline. Bonus - no Kevin, Toby, Kate or Rebecca!
shareI liked the episode tremendously too. It was like a mini-movie and it was very well done. We did have to see Kevin for a tiny bit at the end— but no loss. For what it is worth— if you are alone in the car anyway— why would he rush them off the phone?
shareI was a loyal This Is Us viewer from the very beginning until I started the premiere of the current season and saw them including BLM and covid. Just like that, I was done. I turned the TV off about a third of the way into the episode and never went back, and I never will.
The last season was kind of weak so my enthusiasm was already damaged, but once they decided to get political with all the BLM shit I was 100% done. It's amazing how quickly I went from being a fan of the show to detesting it.
Don’t you think it would be very odd in a show with 5 black characters that BLM would not even be alluded to? I mean it’s your choice to turn it off— but I can’t fault the producers for including seminal events in the story lines. The show has alluded to other historical events in the past of lesser importance— like the Super Bowl that took place at the time of the fire.
shareThe gimmicky flashbacks have gotten way overused and now it's just a stale and tired bit. And the drama........the DRAMA. And I thought Grey's Anatomy heaped-on the cheesy drama and monologues! This show makes Grey's look like a sit-com.
And don't get me started on that damn music playing in the background of every scene....to help spoon-feed every emotion to us. Seriously, do any of the people on this show ever have a light-hearted moment? Smile? Go to a concert....or the bar...or a baseball game? Lighten the eff up.
It has become a drinking game. Each time a character goes off into a preachy, drama-filled monologue, take a sip.
Done with this sullen, depressing, sappy drama-fest.
I am surprised you even watched in the first place, lol. You have to accept a certain level of saccharine cheesiness if you decide to keep watching this show. It takes the “sentimental” in sentimental dramas to obscene levels. Most of the people in my house bailed out in the middle of episode 1.
My disappointment isn’t it’s style or thick use of historical/current event themes, but it’s repetitive use of absurd and forced-drama plot drivers, like long lost relatives, therapist couch revelations, constant flashbacks to childhood. I know that last one is the crux of the show but it’s so overused. I mean, Kate tracking down her high school boyfriend just to have a scene of her telling him off on a street corner? Ridiculous.
I know what was the point in Kate’s rant. Obviously she could see his life didn’t turn out so great so no needs to kick him while he’s down.
shareYes— he barely remembered her too! So what was the point? It just affirms that she is a bitter, damaged person. What happened to her with him was 20 YEARS earlier. Get over it already. I think we have all had equally bad experiences. I know that I have. There is no way I feel compelled to track down ex-boyfriends who have treated me badly. Especially since I am in a marriage with a wonderful man. My friend’s mom had a saying: “Rejections is G-d’s Protection.”
You are better off without the asshole.
I'd be okay with it if Randall came out and told the truth about BLM being a corrupt, Marxist organization. But of course NBC would never tell the truth like that.
Here's a broader answer though: A show like This Is Us should strive to be a show that all people, regardless of their political persuasion, should be able to come to, and enjoy, and rally around. It should be a unifier, not a divider. By including sectarian political content like that, it's going to actively ostracize anyone who holds contrary political views.
NBC fucked it up. While it has always hit on some heavy themes, it's also always, ultimately, been a feel-good show. No longer.
Maybe if OANN ran it, that’d be the spin.
shareThe BLM protests were a seminal event?
There I was, thinking it was a bunch of "oppressed" black people looting, destroying businesses, killing people, setting fire to things, and causing billions in damages.
If anything, it was a shameful event that the hypocritical left continues to excuse. Peaceful? On your bike, Michelle Obama!
Do you think that the storming of the capitol by the radical right was a seminal event?
Most of the people marching in the BLM protests were peaceful. I don’t confuse all Republicans with the radical right insurrectionists. Neither would I confuse all the people who marched in the BLM demonstrations with the small group of rioters.