‘This Is Us’: How NBC Drama Wrapped The Pearsons’ Story In An Animated Series Finale

Six years ago today, the trailer for the then-new NBC drama series. We It exploded in 12 days and broke the record for nearly 80 million views. This heralded the show’s extraordinary six seasons, culminating in tonight’s finale of “We”.

The rapprochement took place after the final episode, “Train,” when people gathered at Rebecca’s funeral. Who made fun of “us” last week, We Creator Dan Fogelman described it as “capturing a day in the life that has so much to do with the show” and noted that the last two hours had passed. We, What they wrote is “very different chapters that talk to each other”.

Besides Rebecca’s death, another theme that ties the two episodes together is the dream sequence with young Rebecca and Jack in the train nightmare where Rebecca met last week. Rebecca and Jack sang the final lines from both episodes in their car when they greeted each other with ‘Hello’ on the ‘Train’ and finally said ‘I love you’.

The finale began with young Jackie and Rebecca waking up at home in bed with a device that mirrored the scene of a Nightmare down to Jack’s mustache. The duo’s morning chat was an unforgettable finale that Fogelman rocked last week: “I wish I had more fun going on rather than worrying about when it was going to end,” Rebecca said. What Jack said after all that Rebecca said while lying on a wagon bed was star Milo Ventimilia’s favorite show of the entire series, he explained during a panel discussion on Sunday. “When the world puts something in front of you, you don’t just walk away,” said Jack (Ventimilia) in response to Rebecca, who started their chance encounter at a bar decades ago and sparked a romance.

In the finale, there were many parallels between Rebecca and Jack’s conversation on the shore and Rebecca’s death scene on the “train”, including Randall saying to his mother, “We’re fine now, you’ve done well for us.” . death. And Jackie told Rebecca, “Little boy, we did a good job. You did a great job,” in the finale. She also shook hands with Jack at the end of the train, just like Randall did in the last moments of the previous episode.

The “Train” series was based on the first news train and debut of the season, with the ending theme based on Rebecca’s heartfelt words in episode two: A Day in the Life: “I don’t mind forgetting. About great things. Pin the Tail’s Game of Thrones Saturday listed “These are the little things I’m not ready to avoid yet” as one of those little moments he’s afraid to forget.

He was at the center of Saturday’s finals with the Big Three, where the family watched movies at home, played with a needle in the donkey’s tail, and taught Jackie how to shave. The images taken about four years ago were edited with the newly shot parts of the farewells.

Teen Kate killed him in the game Pin the Tail on the Donkey, explaining that he used the voices of his parents and siblings very well for broad reference. “As long as I know where you are, I know where I’m going,” she said.

Chris Sullivan, who starred in The Toby Show, named the series his favorite line. Toby was later seen playing with the Pearsons after Rebecca’s funeral.

in another company We The connection between the past and the future, a scene featuring William, Randall and young Tess and Annie, as William and Randall travel to Memphis for William’s final trip, William tells Randall of his grandfather’s joy. This corresponds to the fact that Randall is preparing to become a grandfather in the final.

In it, Dejah tells Randall that she has given birth to a boy she and Malik will aptly name William, whom she never met but met through her own father.

While we saw Randall fight for Rebecca’s praise (“Mom was magical” was all she could find on the bill), the show has decided not to feature the Big Three’s appearances at Mom’s memorial service.

Instead, we have a final scene where the brothers sit on the steps of a family room.

We find out what the future plans of each of them are. Katie will open more music schools for the visually impaired. Kevin will focus on his nonprofit activities. And Randall, whose burgeoning political career has been boring for several seasons, searches for a presidential candidate on a trip to Iowa.

Kate shared her nightmare of “we both passed out” after both of her parents left. She and her brothers promised to be close and sang the famous Big Three hymn we saw a few moments ago in one of the Pearsons’ home movies they watched on lazy Saturday decades ago.

In the finale, Randall and Beth were making their final rounds during the worst-case split, while Toby and Kate shared a sweet moment in which he said he loved them, which is a nice gift for KaToby fans.

The episode also included a montage of various time warps. We Home – Alongside Rebecca’s childhood and a wonderful trio waking up on the morning of Rebecca’s funeral, there were several generations of people rocking their little ones on a swing in the park, starting with Rebecca and her father, Rebecca and Jack, when they were kids. Large. Three babies, then adults and children, and finally Jack Jr. and her daughter. This final scene was notable because it was the most distant future show ever received.

Finally, on the train, Rebecca told Jack she didn’t want to leave her children and “there was so much she wanted to do with them”.

“You will be,” Jack assured. “Hard to explain, but you will do all this with them. You will be there.”

In the Season 1 episode where Kevin shows his drawing to his nephews as they say “I love you” to each other, the show switches to its final edit, which was used once before. As Randall looked at Deja with his hand on his stomach, the camera took turns taking in the three elders. The last shot was of a young Randall and Jackie from a scene on Saturday, with the camera focused on Jack as he watched his family.

In the posthumous interview (which you can read here), Fogelman makes his way to the finale by answering questions about key moments and scenes, including choosing the final lines of dialogue and footage and choosing not to show partial tribute to the mother. from the big three. . He also talks about shot but not used, the political future and Randall’s potential. We compartments.