This Is Us

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Anonymous wrote:I want to know why Randall told his wife he paid for the PI with the personal Amex, not the business one. Curious comment, unless he was just stating he was not hiding anything.

Maybe he was just nervously giving details that are unimportant, like I tend to do

This. Obviously, given that the wife responded, I don't care about the Amex!

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Anonymous wrote:I want to know why Randall told his wife he paid for the PI with the personal Amex, not the business one. Curious comment, unless he was just stating he was not hiding anything.

Maybe he was just nervously giving details that are unimportant, like I tend to do

This. Sounded like nervous rambling to me!

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Anonymous wrote:Liked it. My *one* issue that I'll let go is...the dad told him what happened. But he shouldn't have really known anything past the fire station drop off right? He explained how the mom died, he dropped him off, then (loosely quoting) "a couple adopted him, and it seemed right."

But what seemed right? I don't think he would have known the story after the drop off.

I'm sure there was plenty of news coverage. I used to know a woman who was abandoned in a church by her birth mother and she had all kinds of news clippings about the story and her eventual adoption.

But how did he know who the birth mother and birth father were?

Who? I'm not following your question.

Randall, the baby who was left at the fire station. He said his mother was a junkie who died. How does he know this information? If he was left at a fire station, how does he know who his bio mother is? How would he be able to give enough information about his bio father to a private investigator so that the PI could find him? How does he know ANY info about his bio father? The father said he didn't even remember leaving him at the fire station, so it's not like he was caught by the police after the fact.

I don't know how he would know exactly who it is (except maybe the news) but I would imagine he would have come in crack addicted and thus have eventually been told some details. (Minus the died in childbirth thing)

Well that was the private detectives job in the beginning. He was on the case for some time then emailed Randall. He had maybe tracked the mother first. Death/birth records. And then interviewed family for clues on her boyfriend/husband's name.

But how would he be able to track the mother at all? If the baby was born that day and left at a fire station, obviously she didn't give birth in a hospital. It doesn't make sense.

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Maybe news or police records.

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Anonymous wrote:Liked it. My *one* issue that I'll let go is...the dad told him what happened. But he shouldn't have really known anything past the fire station drop off right? He explained how the mom died, he dropped him off, then (loosely quoting) "a couple adopted him, and it seemed right."

But what seemed right? I don't think he would have known the story after the drop off.

I'm sure there was plenty of news coverage. I used to know a woman who was abandoned in a church by her birth mother and she had all kinds of news clippings about the story and her eventual adoption.

But how did he know who the birth mother and birth father were?

Who? I'm not following your question.

Randall, the baby who was left at the fire station. He said his mother was a junkie who died. How does he know this information? If he was left at a fire station, how does he know who his bio mother is? How would he be able to give enough information about his bio father to a private investigator so that the PI could find him? How does he know ANY info about his bio father? The father said he didn't even remember leaving him at the fire station, so it's not like he was caught by the police after the fact.

I don't know how he would know exactly who it is (except maybe the news) but I would imagine he would have come in crack addicted and thus have eventually been told some details. (Minus the died in childbirth thing)

Well that was the private detectives job in the beginning. He was on the case for some time then emailed Randall. He had maybe tracked the mother first. Death/birth records. And then interviewed family for clues on her boyfriend/husband's name.

But how would he be able to track the mother at all? If the baby was born that day and left at a fire station, obviously she didn't give birth in a hospital. It doesn't make sense.

Dead bodies go somewhere. There would be a death certificate. It wouldn't be that difficult to track down a mother b/c the autopsy would indicate that she had recently given birth.

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Just saw it and really enjoyed. I also figured out how it was going to come together about 2/3 through but I had chills when the twist was finally revealed. Really looking forward to the rest of the season.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to know why Randall told his wife he paid for the PI with the personal Amex, not the business one. Curious comment, unless he was just stating he was not hiding anything.

Maybe he was just nervously giving details that are unimportant, like I tend to do

This. Obviously, given that the wife responded, I don't care about the Amex!

I think the wife might work with him. I could've sworn he said, "clear my schedule, babe" when he went to find his birth dad but I could've totally misheard.

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Anonymous wrote:Watched last night. Loved. Really like the brother/sister dynamic and her budding romance, and loved the twist. (Also couldn't believe she wouldn't have a section but figured tv was asking us to suspend our disbelief.) Figured it out when the guy said a baby had been left at the fire station and then lit a cigarette, but had no idea before that.

Tough thing for me to buy: the birth dad is so well spoken and lovely, which seems odd for an addict who spent much of his life on the streets. Will this part go another direction as well? Maybe they'll tell us how he pulled himself up or something? Sort of weird.

I disagree. Real people have dimension. We still don't know what the father's background was before he started using. Plenty of people with "normal" lives end up as addicts.

Absolutely. Especially these days with addiction frequently stemming from prescriptions. But in the 70s, drug addiction and life on the streets probably didn't affect educated adults that frequently, no? I admit little understanding of the addictive drug culture before 80s coke, so I could be totally off base. I'm just thinking that whatever killed the guy's mom and left his dad homeless wasn't your 70s pot/LSD. Maybe I'm way off base.

My brothers were teens in the 70's. Everyone did a lot of drugs. Some people graduated to harder core drugs as they became available. My brothers had friends that became real coke addicts. I think there were a lot of "nice" kids in the late '70s and early '80's that got addicted quickly without really realizing it could happen. The character on the show said his mom was addicted to crack but I think the timing is off for that. I don't think crack was a thing until the mid-80's and into the '90s.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to know why Randall told his wife he paid for the PI with the personal Amex, not the business one. Curious comment, unless he was just stating he was not hiding anything.

Maybe he was just nervously giving details that are unimportant, like I tend to do

This. Obviously, given that the wife responded, I don't care about the Amex!

I think the wife might work with him. I could've sworn he said, "clear my schedule, babe" when he went to find his birth dad but I could've totally misheard.

You misheard.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to know why Randall told his wife he paid for the PI with the personal Amex, not the business one. Curious comment, unless he was just stating he was not hiding anything.

Maybe he was just nervously giving details that are unimportant, like I tend to do

This. Sounded like nervous rambling to me!

I loved that scene! The way he was so giddy and flustered and incredulous about his own behavior.

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Anonymous wrote:Liked it. My *one* issue that I'll let go is...the dad told him what happened. But he shouldn't have really known anything past the fire station drop off right? He explained how the mom died, he dropped him off, then (loosely quoting) "a couple adopted him, and it seemed right."

But what seemed right? I don't think he would have known the story after the drop off.

Maybe foreshadowing for future episodes when we'll find out he was also at the hospital that day and knew about the situation with the parents losing the 3rd baby.

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Anonymous wrote:Liked it. My *one* issue that I'll let go is...the dad told him what happened. But he shouldn't have really known anything past the fire station drop off right? He explained how the mom died, he dropped him off, then (loosely quoting) "a couple adopted him, and it seemed right."

But what seemed right? I don't think he would have known the story after the drop off.

Maybe foreshadowing for future episodes when we'll find out he was also at the hospital that day and knew about the situation with the parents losing the 3rd baby.

Seeing as how he said he didn't even remember dropping him at the fire station, this seems unlikely.

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Anonymous wrote:Liked it. My *one* issue that I'll let go is...the dad told him what happened. But he shouldn't have really known anything past the fire station drop off right? He explained how the mom died, he dropped him off, then (loosely quoting) "a couple adopted him, and it seemed right."

But what seemed right? I don't think he would have known the story after the drop off.

Maybe foreshadowing for future episodes when we'll find out he was also at the hospital that day and knew about the situation with the parents losing the 3rd baby.

Seeing as how he said he didn't even remember dropping him at the fire station, this seems unlikely.

I wouldn't take his word for that. I think he remembers it....more to come...it was just the first episode so it's not that tidy of an explanation.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved it, but was baffled as to why they didn't do a csection from the beginning (sounds like the doctor knew a baby wasn't in the right position). Did they not do csections for multiples in 1980?

This was my first sign that something was "off" in the show.

The father cut the doctor off...it sounded like he was hell bent on having a vaginal delivery. He knew the risks but interrupted the doctor when he brought it up.

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Anonymous wrote:The adoption plotline seemed less than realistic to me. Would they have really been able to just take home a random baby, having put in no paperwork of any kind, while grieving the loss of a bio baby? Maybe yes in 1979?

We don't know if he just took them all home that day. I'm sure there was paperwork but I doubt the producers wanted to spend an entire episode outlining how they came to legally adopt the kid. It's TV drama, not the History Channel.