This Is Us

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Anonymous wrote:So are we shot of Olivia? I hope so; Kevin needs a better storyline

Agree. Olivia is a spoiled, entitled, snooty, biatch. I really like Kevin's character. Yes, he was somewhat shallow at first, but he's grown on me so much. I also find him really funny; much more so than I expected to.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone catch what Randall said to his mom st the door at the end? Something like "I must have been very _____ then." Then he said, see you at Christmas. ?

He said: "You kept that secret for 36 years. That must have been incredibly lonely. I'll see you at Christmas"

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone catch what Randall said to his mom st the door at the end? Something like "I must have been very _____ then." Then he said, see you at Christmas. ?

He said: "You kept that secret for 36 years. That must have been incredibly lonely. I'll see you at Christmas"

Thanks! My dog chose to go completely apeshit at nothing outside at that exact moment, of course!

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Anonymous wrote:Was that some kind of alcohol she put in the cranberry sauce? !! I never heard of that. Wonder what kind.

Maybe grand marnier? She was adding orange zest too, right?

My husband makes cranberry sauce with Grand Marnier- it's delicious!

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Was the father trying to tell Randall about Rebecca? Was it just her fear of Randall being taken away or that she had other underlying issues?

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Anonymous wrote:So are we shot of Olivia? I hope so; Kevin needs a better storyline

Agree. Olivia is a spoiled, entitled, snooty, biatch. I really like Kevin's character. Yes, he was somewhat shallow at first, but he's grown on me so much. I also find him really funny; much more so than I expected to.

Kevin is finally starting to grow on me as well. Didn't really like or relate to his character much up until this episode.

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Anonymous wrote:PP nailed it on Kate having bypass surgery. Interesting twist, and I hope they keep the struggle there. I'm sure they will, it won't be an easy fix for her.

I read somewhere on the Internet - so who knows if it's true or not - that the actress who plays Kate has a clause in her contract that she has to lose weight as her character does.

I know Kate is heavy in real life but I think she is wearing padding around her stomach area. When she was sitting on the tree stump her middle didn't look natural if that makes any sense. Fat hangs down, her mid section looked perfectly round and even. If the writers go the surgery route it will be easier to have her look smaller each episode without requiring weight loss.

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Anonymous wrote:Was the father trying to tell Randall about Rebecca? Was it just her fear of Randall being taken away or that she had other underlying issues?

I was a little confused by this also. What was the scene with the paranoia at the cabin? The three locks? Did she have schizoid tendencies?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP nailed it on Kate having bypass surgery. Interesting twist, and I hope they keep the struggle there. I'm sure they will, it won't be an easy fix for her.

I read somewhere on the Internet - so who knows if it's true or not - that the actress who plays Kate has a clause in her contract that she has to lose weight as her character does.

I know Kate is heavy in real life but I think she is wearing padding around her stomach area. When she was sitting on the tree stump her middle didn't look natural if that makes any sense. Fat hangs down, her mid section looked perfectly round and even. If the writers go the surgery route it will be easier to have her look smaller each episode without requiring weight loss.

I noticed that also. I think they have intentionally plumped her figure. I have read also that the actress is against gastric surgery, so maybe this is why.

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I was confused by the three locks at the cabin, and Rebecca's behavior in the flash back. That has to be leading somewhere. Mental illness, maybe?

I agree that they have Kate wearing padding. She looked quite a bit bigger in this episode.

I'm still not really sold on Kevin's character.

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Anonymous wrote:Was the father trying to tell Randall about Rebecca? Was it just her fear of Randall being taken away or that she had other underlying issues?

I was a little confused by this also. What was the scene with the paranoia at the cabin? The three locks? Did she have schizoid tendencies?

I took it more as showing how protecting her family was always on her mind and her top priority. How she was terrified of anything bad happening to them.

I cried at the ending when she cried when Randall told her how it must have been hard to keep that secret all those years.

I love how they are showing both sides and I get it. She was terrified of them taking away the child she had raised and as a result Randall grew up not knowing his father.

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Three locks was because " Randall was afraid of bears"

Mom dashing about inside locking doors - was a symbolic show while Jack described how she kept everyone "safe".

It was a terrible idea to show that, didn't fit with the rest of the episode at all - very theatrical and would maybe have worked on stage, but not on screen.

But then the writer is an established playwright, so this may be why we get these odd, stagey elements popping up.

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So who did Kevin sleep with at the end? And what was she saying about Disney World? I missed that entire scene...
The preview for next week appeared to show Kevin kissing someone, I'm hoping it's not Olivia.

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Yeah, new perspective on Rebecca. She usually seems, mostly, happy. But maybe all of this killed her inside. All the weight and pressure of three kids the same age, and all so different,... She made it look easy/normal but she's the one who stays up at night worrying, or fulfilling perfection (as instilled by her mother as we've seen referenced a couple of times)...

If you think about it, we still don't know a lot about her. About her childhood family. Maybe there's some messed up crap she hides.

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Anonymous wrote:So who did Kevin sleep with at the end? And what was she saying about Disney World? I missed that entire scene...
The preview for next week appeared to show Kevin kissing someone, I'm hoping it's not Olivia.

He slept with Sloane the playwright who got stuck there when Asher and Olivia absconded with her rental car. I think she's the "normal" that Kevin referred to when telling off A/O - she wants to be with her sister who's giving birth and loves Epcot. She's sweet. Plus, she's Lily from the AT&T commercials.