This Is Us -- Season 2

[Anonymous]

^^ the last day he could do for them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There was a flashback scene which I thought was when Kate found Kevin to tell him. In that scene, Kevin is standing with his gf, knee in cast in front of a pick up truck. Did Kate find him sleeping on the super bowl episode?

Yes, they were sleeping in the back of a station wagon or truck, when Kate found them. Now I get why Kate thought it was smart for her to find him. I think mom would have been pissed if THAT’s the way she had to find her son to tell him. Kate could handle it better.

This was actually the scene that made me dislike Kate or, rather, confirmed my irritation at her. She makes a big deal about how she needs to be the one to tell Kevin. But then when they show her telling him in the background, she breaks down into his arms. She acts like it's important that she be there for him, but then she basically demands that he comfort her seconds after getting this awful news that she's already had some time to process. I mean, obviously she would still be upset...but it bugs me that the first thing she made Kevin do after hearing the news is comfort her rather than helping him process his shock. She shouldn't have been the one to share the news if she couldn't help him deal with it...compare that to Rebecca talking about needing to be strong so she could go "ruin the rest of [her kids] lives".

Ugh, Kate and her self-pity...

Rebecca does better because she's their mother! You can't compare the two! Kate was a freaking teenager. I'd never expect the level of maturity you want from a kid that age, specially under those circumstances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loved this episode. It added richness. Not every episode has to move the plot forward in some dramatic way.

I think the best scene of this whole series so far has been Jack cleaning the kitchen the night of the fire. His scenes usually portray him as some super dad, but in that one, he was just doing the unrecognized, ordinary caretaking of a parent, not knowing it was that day he could do that for them. There was such a simple tenderness about it.

+1

Very nice observation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When do we see Kate and Kevin acting as or becoming the soulmates the show keeps talking about? Kevin seems pretty indifferent to her.

I agree! Where is the twin bond? They don't seem to like each other much or hang out until adulthood- at least from what they've shown so far.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When do we see Kate and Kevin acting as or becoming the soulmates the show keeps talking about? Kevin seems pretty indifferent to her.

I agree! Where is the twin bond? They don't seem to like each other much or hang out until adulthood- at least from what they've shown so far.

I disagree. When Kevin is being wheeled out of the hospital, he and Kate hold hands. Kevin pays some kid in halloween candy to hold Kate's hand in the haunted house.

[Anonymous]

I think they will all grow closer in some ways and more distant in others in the next season.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t the doctor die in a previous episode?! Something like when Kevin breaks a bone when he is little?

I think t was Kate's appendix, and no the DR was sick, but didn't die.

[Anonymous]

OMG Was there an episode on last night (Tuesday)? I totally missed it. What happened?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ohhhhh- that was older Tess as a social worker. I wondered what all that was about. So Randall just came to visit her at work or something? Thanks DCUM!

Plus 1!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ohhhhh- that was older Tess as a social worker. I wondered what all that was about. So Randall just came to visit her at work or something? Thanks DCUM!

Plus 1!!!

Really? It was obvious and a key part of the story. How did anyone miss that

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t the doctor die in a previous episode?! Something like when Kevin breaks a bone when he is little?

I think t was Kate's appendix, and no the DR was sick, but didn't die.

Wasn’t the doc saying something about how he doesn’t have any family too?

I do remember now that it was Kate in the hospital.

I’m going to have to find and re-watch it. I just... was surprised to see him AT ALL based on what I had seen before.

[Anonymous]

Ha! The darn tree was in Pittsburgh!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There was a flashback scene which I thought was when Kate found Kevin to tell him. In that scene, Kevin is standing with his gf, knee in cast in front of a pick up truck. Did Kate find him sleeping on the super bowl episode?

Yes, they were sleeping in the back of a station wagon or truck, when Kate found them. Now I get why Kate thought it was smart for her to find him. I think mom would have been pissed if THAT’s the way she had to find her son to tell him. Kate could handle it better.

This was actually the scene that made me dislike Kate or, rather, confirmed my irritation at her. She makes a big deal about how she needs to be the one to tell Kevin. But then when they show her telling him in the background, she breaks down into his arms. She acts like it's important that she be there for him, but then she basically demands that he comfort her seconds after getting this awful news that she's already had some time to process. I mean, obviously she would still be upset...but it bugs me that the first thing she made Kevin do after hearing the news is comfort her rather than helping him process his shock. She shouldn't have been the one to share the news if she couldn't help him deal with it...compare that to Rebecca talking about needing to be strong so she could go "ruin the rest of [her kids] lives".

Ugh, Kate and her self-pity...

Rebecca does better because she's their mother! You can't compare the two! Kate was a freaking teenager. I'd never expect the level of maturity you want from a kid that age, specially under those circumstances.

Maybe compare is the wrong word...I'm just saying that the scene made me like Kate less. I don't think she should have been as strong as Rebecca. But I think if she was giong to make a big deal and insist on being the one to tell Kevin she should have tried to support him a little. Otherwise just let Rebecca tell him.

[Anonymous]

Minor complaint #2 - the funeral happened a few days after the Super Bowl. Pittsburgh would not have looked like that in February. It would have been gray and not sunny. Wouldn’t look so much like fall

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Minor complaint #2 - the funeral happened a few days after the Super Bowl. Pittsburgh would not have looked like that in February. It would have been gray and not sunny. Wouldn’t look so much like fall

I assumed it was a while later--wasn't Kevin out of his cast?