This Is Us -- Season 2

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Anonymous wrote:I found a few scenes from the most recent episode touching, but overall I was a little bored with it. I wanted to see more of the rest of the Pearson clan and instead, it was 99% about Deja and her mom. The other story lines following Jack's death weren't advanced at all.

+ 1 The imaginary vows renewal was OTT and just plain dumb.

Yeah, it did nothing for me, and that's the first complaint I've had about the entire two seasons of this show. It just seemed hokey to me, and I'm a total sap!

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Good stuff. I didn’t know the creator/writer is married to Madison, Kate’s “maid of honor.” Paraphrasing: Kevin and Madison are not going to happen!

It occurred to me as I was reading this that the writers have a limited amount of time to add any backstory from the kids' childhood. The child actors are going to grow and change so fast, especially the youngest ones, that there is a short window to film those scenes.

I assume they filmed many, many scenes with the young actors we haven't seen yet and will be inserting those scenes into future shows. The Glamour article mentioned this was done with Kate and her dad having the talk about her wanting to marry him.

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Totally agree the vow renewal with old Jack was FOS.

I don't know why Deja's mom would terminate her own rights. So Deja does well with the family. Couldn't she just live with them since the mom is homeless?

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What is "on the pole?"

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Anonymous wrote: What is "on the pole?"

Stripper

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oh. thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think this is Deja doing something horrible. This show is pro-adoption/foster and I can't imagine them bringing in that narrative.

Plus 1 million!!!

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It bothered me that Toby's brother was never mentioned in the wedding episode. I get that with his absence at the bachelor party it was established that they aren't close, but it's like he just didn't exist in the wedding episode.

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Anonymous wrote:I just have one observation about who the "her" is in the Tess/Randall future scene. I feel confident that it is someone they are both angry at/hurt by. Some people are speculating it's Beth, who is sick, or something like that - no, I don't think it's Beth that they need to see. It's someone who has done something unforgivable, IMO.

This!

I'm here too

My guess is they are going to see Deja in jail.

My guess was Deja in a mental hospital or similar.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, I didn’t understand why Deja got so mad when Toby’s mom said she looks like Randall. She was fine when she referred to the three of them as their girls, so she wasn’t upset about being seen as part of the family. So why did that comment trigger her? She immediately glared at Randall and then bashed their car. I get that it would be difficult for a nonbio kid to hear that they look like a parent, but why take it out on Randall and Beth? Did I miss something?

I think she's just so incredibly angry that her own mother couldn't get it together and essentially, gave her up. I think the idea that she could possibly "belong" to anyone else was just too much for her to handle in that moment.

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Good stuff. I didn’t know the creator/writer is married to Madison, Kate’s “maid of honor.” Paraphrasing: Kevin and Madison are not going to happen!

I could tell they weren't going to happen just by Kevin's reaction to her at the wedding. She's got an annoying personality.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, I didn’t understand why Deja got so mad when Toby’s mom said she looks like Randall. She was fine when she referred to the three of them as their girls, so she wasn’t upset about being seen as part of the family. So why did that comment trigger her? She immediately glared at Randall and then bashed their car. I get that it would be difficult for a nonbio kid to hear that they look like a parent, but why take it out on Randall and Beth? Did I miss something?

I'll offer a more superficial reason: teen girls don't want to be told they look like their Dad, it could be misunderstood as a girl has manly features or broad shouldered. Plus she never met her biological father.

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Anonymous wrote:http://bit.ly/2HApdv4

Good stuff. I didn’t know the creator/writer is married to Madison, Kate’s “maid of honor.” Paraphrasing: Kevin and Madison are not going to happen!

I could tell they weren't going to happen just by Kevin's reaction to her at the wedding. She's got an annoying personality.

You’re missing the point. The writer wrote that reaction so his real-life wife wouldn’t be fake-making out with Kevin. "Of course I had to write the part where she flirts with Kevin, the handsomest guy in the world," Fogelman jokes. "It's never going to happen again!"

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On a tangent and going all the way back to the very first episode, I recall that only Randall used their last name "Pearson" during the entire episode so that they didn't give away the family connection until the end scene. I'm going to watch it again to be sure.

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Anonymous wrote:http://bit.ly/2HApdv4

Good stuff. I didn’t know the creator/writer is married to Madison, Kate’s “maid of honor.” Paraphrasing: Kevin and Madison are not going to happen!

I could tell they weren't going to happen just by Kevin's reaction to her at the wedding. She's got an annoying personality.

You’re missing the point. The writer wrote that reaction so his real-life wife wouldn’t be fake-making out with Kevin. "Of course I had to write the part where she flirts with Kevin, the handsomest guy in the world," Fogelman jokes. "It's never going to happen again!"

I got the point - I read the article too. Fil gel man was joking when he made that remark. Or else, very insecure.