This Is Us -- Season 2

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Anonymous wrote:I love the show, but the stainless steel appliances bug me.

They had just completed a remodel and the year was 1997. The Big Three are born in 1980, a year before my husband. He remembers stainless steel appliances in peoples home during his high school years. I doubt they hired an inexperienced dramaturge for THIS show.

Well, they did get the whole Challenger thing wrong

Seriously, though, my family moved into a new house in 1996 & my parents had the kitchen renovated before we moved in. It had stainless steel appliances so, yes, they were definitely around in the mid-to-late '90s.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone find it interesting that the movie Randall saw was "Titanic"?
Which got me thinking... Jack! Necklace!

Help me out...I don't know the movie.

Jack and Rose (Leonardo diCaprio and Kate Winslet) fall in love, Jack draws nude pic of Rose wearing priceless diamond necklace that belongs to her abusive fiancé, Titanic sinks, Jack dies, Rose finds the necklace in her coat pocket after she's rescued.

What does Titanic's Jack and the necklace have to do with This is Us? Maybe Jack's dog tags are in the house and he tries to get them? (I'm not the one that asked above.)

I think the first Titanic poster was just pointing out what a strange coincidence it is that the movie Randall saw the night Jack died happened to feature a character named Jack who dies young, sacrificing his own life for a character played by someone named Kate & leaving behind a much treasured necklace as a memento.

I'm guessing, however, that the writers were not even thinking about the whole Jack/Kate/necklace connection when they had Randall take Allison to see Titanic. They probably just chose the movie that a teenage girl in early 1998 would have been the most likely to want her boyfriend to take her to see. Titanic was HUGE that year & so many teenaged girls, in particular, were obsessed with it.

[Anonymous]

FYI, the necklace isn’t exactly dog tags.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love the show, but the stainless steel appliances bug me.

They had just completed a remodel and the year was 1997. The Big Three are born in 1980, a year before my husband. He remembers stainless steel appliances in peoples home during his high school years. I doubt they hired an inexperienced dramaturge for THIS show.

Well, they did get the whole Challenger thing wrong

Seriously, though, my family moved into a new house in 1996 & my parents had the kitchen renovated before we moved in. It had stainless steel appliances so, yes, they were definitely around in the mid-to-late '90s.

Thank you! The Challenger thing still bugs me! They would have been in Kindergarten at most.

[Anonymous]

Was the Challenger from the pilot episode? If the challenger exploded when he was 7 and they were born in 80, they weren't that off.

Pilot episodes often include details that don't cary over into the series. Something like the actual age of the big three could have still been up in the air with the writers. Jack turning 36 the day the triplets were born, and the show picking up at their 36th birthday may have been the stronger storyline they chose to go with.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love the show, but the stainless steel appliances bug me.

They had just completed a remodel and the year was 1997. The Big Three are born in 1980, a year before my husband. He remembers stainless steel appliances in peoples home during his high school years. I doubt they hired an inexperienced dramaturge for THIS show.

Well, they did get the whole Challenger thing wrong

Seriously, though, my family moved into a new house in 1996 & my parents had the kitchen renovated before we moved in. It had stainless steel appliances so, yes, they were definitely around in the mid-to-late '90s.

PP here; I'm not saying that stainless steel appliances weren't around then, just that at the time, they were pretty expensive and more common in higher-end kitchens. It just seems like a stretch for the Pearsons who appear to be solidly middle class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I kind of think they get out but he gets drunk or something because he blames himself for the fire and dies in a car accident or suicide. I’m sure imnwrong though.

I think he will survive the fire too, but die shortly after, perhaps in a car accident.

[Anonymous]

Sorry if this has been said already but I think he goes in to get the dog, probably at Kate’s urging, which would explain Kate’s guilt and her reluctance at the animal shelter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry if this has been said already but I think he goes in to get the dog, probably at Kate’s urging, which would explain Kate’s guilt and her reluctance at the animal shelter.

I kind of think that too, EXCEPT for the fact that it seems too obvious and they seem to always throw something the viewers aren't expecting in

[Anonymous]

I never have trouble following the show, but I was really confused with the timeline this week.

One was the whole thing with that older couple – it seemed like they were the ones that Rebecca had contacted about buying the house, but then they actually gave them the crockpot. That was really confusing.

Also, I am really confused about who is or isn't in the house… I just now went back and saw the scenes for next week, which I didn't see on the first watch, so I guess everyone was. For some reason I did not think that throughout the season so I have been very confused

[Anonymous]

Also... any guesses for what time the Super Bowl will be over, East Coast time? I watch this is us online anyway so I won't be able to get it until the next day… Unless I can find a place to watch it…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I never have trouble following the show, but I was really confused with the timeline this week.

One was the whole thing with that older couple – it seemed like they were the ones that Rebecca had contacted about buying the house, but then they actually gave them the crockpot. That was really confusing.

Also, I am really confused about who is or isn't in the house… I just now went back and saw the scenes for next week, which I didn't see on the first watch, so I guess everyone was. For some reason I did not think that throughout the season so I have been very confused

I think Kevin is at Sophie’s, but everyone else is there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I never have trouble following the show, but I was really confused with the timeline this week.

One was the whole thing with that older couple – it seemed like they were the ones that Rebecca had contacted about buying the house, but then they actually gave them the crockpot. That was really confusing.

Also, I am really confused about who is or isn't in the house… I just now went back and saw the scenes for next week, which I didn't see on the first watch, so I guess everyone was. For some reason I did not think that throughout the season so I have been very confused

Kevin isn't in the house. He's at a party in the woods with Sophie.

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Whatever, I think it is fun to speculate because I love these characters.

Of course . Fanfictioning holiday schedules seems like a stretch, but it's a popular drama show about a family. Their mom married their dad's good friend after he died. Since he has kids too and his ex was friends with the mom it's not a stretch to wonder where his kids fit in and how the marriage may have affected them. It definitely hits home for those whose parents remarried someone with kids. Sometimes step-sibs get along as one big family and other times they have absolutely no relationship especially if they are older.

+1

I don't get why some posters (who are themselves posting on thread devoted to discussing a fictional family!) find this so hard to grasp.

No one here finds that "hard to grasp." I think we're all invested in these characters. But the PPs trying to piece together who spends the holidays where and with whom, etc. are taking it a little too far. It's extremely odd to worry about the minutiae of a show like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else think that the older couple that gave Jack the crockpot was actually the older couple's house that Rebecca wanted to have Jack buy and rehab? It took me a minute to piece it all together.

And my father was a NYC firefighter, and the next show is my nightmare. I have always been TERRIFIED of fire - I can't even light a match.

Yes, I definitely thought that was the couple whose house Rebecca later wanted to buy - that is, until the scene where the elderly man brings the crockpot to the Pearson's house and it's clear that Jack and Rebecca are just a young couple, newly pregnant at the time the elderly couple is moving out (so it couldn't be the same people). But I thought it was clever how the writers made us think that - very good writing/storytelling. They always seem to have these great "circles" of stories, with things interconnecting like that and then a twist at the end.