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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just watched last night, ugh, I hate all the jumping ahead. 5 seasons with toby and one night for happily ever after with the new guy.  
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+1. Would have rather seen more of the actual events than just snippets of them. [/quote]

NP. I really wonder if this is all because the showrunners said this was the final season so they gave themselves a deadline and now must jam so much into remaining episodes. Does anyone know if the show was facing potential cancellation, so Fogelman et. al. decided to end it on their own terms rather than being canceled, or was this truly about "I've plotted this out so this is the expected end" and it had nothing to do with ratings, cancellation etc.? I find it hard to believe that NBC was anywhere near axing the show at the time it was announced that this was the last season.

Though if actors' contracts were getting near the point of renewal, and any actors had said they wanted to move on, that could have spurred the "we'll finish with this season" approach too.

No series benefits from being drawn out too long, for sure, and any good producer wants to end a show, not have it ended FOR them mid-plot. But I wonder if Fogelman hobbled himself and the entire show by announcing "this will be the final season" when there had been little to no real prior buildup for Kate/Philip, and way too many potential directions for Kevin's love life, etc. etc.

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Show was probably getting too expensive. With Covid and actor contract renegotiations (with some probably not wanting to continue), probably decided to call it.[/quote]

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