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Anonymous wrote:This maudlin, ridiculous show should have been over a while ago. I can’t believe there are this many people who just love being extra depressed weekly. I even saw a headline about how Mandy Moore threw up when she saw what was going to happen in the final scripts. Gee, sound great. Sign me up.

She threw up because it was gut wrenching and a emotionally exhausting, not because she hates the show. Why are you even on this board?

I KNOW THAT. It’s just, why are you signing up for gut wrenching and emotionally exhausting? Every week?

As for me, I watched the show for a couple years until it became too ridiculous and too relentlessly depressing. However, I do low key want to know how it ends because I need to know what could be so upsetting it would make someone throw up. So I occasionally read what happened on message boards. And not gonna lie, now I find parts of this hilarious. I mean, Philip’s ex-wife was blind, infertile and then killed by a drunk driver? Like 5 minutes after ending their marriage? I mean, how do you not burst out laughing when you deliver that? The show is like a parody at this point.

If not before, for me the show definitely "jumped the shark" with that story.

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Anonymous wrote:This maudlin, ridiculous show should have been over a while ago. I can’t believe there are this many people who just love being extra depressed weekly. I even saw a headline about how Mandy Moore threw up when she saw what was going to happen in the final scripts. Gee, sound great. Sign me up.

She threw up because it was gut wrenching and a emotionally exhausting, not because she hates the show. Why are you even on this board?

I KNOW THAT. It’s just, why are you signing up for gut wrenching and emotionally exhausting? Every week?

As for me, I watched the show for a couple years until it became too ridiculous and too relentlessly depressing. However, I do low key want to know how it ends because I need to know what could be so upsetting it would make someone throw up. So I occasionally read what happened on message boards. And not gonna lie, now I find parts of this hilarious. I mean, Philip’s ex-wife was blind, infertile and then killed by a drunk driver? Like 5 minutes after ending their marriage? I mean, how do you not burst out laughing when you deliver that? The show is like a parody at this point.

If not before, for me the show definitely "jumped the shark" with that story.

Did they explain how she got hit by a drunk driver? She obviously wasn’t driving.

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Anonymous wrote:This maudlin, ridiculous show should have been over a while ago. I can’t believe there are this many people who just love being extra depressed weekly. I even saw a headline about how Mandy Moore threw up when she saw what was going to happen in the final scripts. Gee, sound great. Sign me up.

She threw up because it was gut wrenching and a emotionally exhausting, not because she hates the show. Why are you even on this board?

I KNOW THAT. It’s just, why are you signing up for gut wrenching and emotionally exhausting? Every week?

As for me, I watched the show for a couple years until it became too ridiculous and too relentlessly depressing. However, I do low key want to know how it ends because I need to know what could be so upsetting it would make someone throw up. So I occasionally read what happened on message boards. And not gonna lie, now I find parts of this hilarious. I mean, Philip’s ex-wife was blind, infertile and then killed by a drunk driver? Like 5 minutes after ending their marriage? I mean, how do you not burst out laughing when you deliver that? The show is like a parody at this point.

If not before, for me the show definitely "jumped the shark" with that story.

Did they explain how she got hit by a drunk driver? She obviously wasn’t driving.

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Anonymous wrote:This maudlin, ridiculous show should have been over a while ago. I can’t believe there are this many people who just love being extra depressed weekly. I even saw a headline about how Mandy Moore threw up when she saw what was going to happen in the final scripts. Gee, sound great. Sign me up.

She threw up because it was gut wrenching and a emotionally exhausting, not because she hates the show. Why are you even on this board?

I KNOW THAT. It’s just, why are you signing up for gut wrenching and emotionally exhausting? Every week?

As for me, I watched the show for a couple years until it became too ridiculous and too relentlessly depressing. However, I do low key want to know how it ends because I need to know what could be so upsetting it would make someone throw up. So I occasionally read what happened on message boards. And not gonna lie, now I find parts of this hilarious. I mean, Philip’s ex-wife was blind, infertile and then killed by a drunk driver? Like 5 minutes after ending their marriage? I mean, how do you not burst out laughing when you deliver that? The show is like a parody at this point.

If not before, for me the show definitely "jumped the shark" with that story.

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Anonymous wrote:This maudlin, ridiculous show should have been over a while ago. I can’t believe there are this many people who just love being extra depressed weekly. I even saw a headline about how Mandy Moore threw up when she saw what was going to happen in the final scripts. Gee, sound great. Sign me up.

She threw up because it was gut wrenching and a emotionally exhausting, not because she hates the show. Why are you even on this board?

I KNOW THAT. It’s just, why are you signing up for gut wrenching and emotionally exhausting? Every week?

As for me, I watched the show for a couple years until it became too ridiculous and too relentlessly depressing. However, I do low key want to know how it ends because I need to know what could be so upsetting it would make someone throw up. So I occasionally read what happened on message boards. And not gonna lie, now I find parts of this hilarious. I mean, Philip’s ex-wife was blind, infertile and then killed by a drunk driver? Like 5 minutes after ending their marriage? I mean, how do you not burst out laughing when you deliver that? The show is like a parody at this point.

Anonymous wrote:OK got it, kate can’t be dead at Rebecca‘s death because she’s alive later to watch Jack’s performance, unless Toby wife Kate and husband are all dead and he was imagining his parents all there at the performance.

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Anonymous wrote:So Chrissy Metz is fat. She has remained fat throughout This Is Us. Her fatness is a given.

Is she only allowed to have a storyline insofar as it is about her fatness? Would that be more interesting to you? Or is she just supposed to fade into the background and be The Fat Sibling with No Story Any Longer?

I get that you want her to lose weight by any means, but that's not happening. So in a narrative sense, what do you do with her character?

Why was Kate the only member of the family with a weight issue? It got much worse after her father died but why was she an overweight child and teen? Does she have an anxiety disorder as also evidenced by her fear of swimming? They all treat her with kid gloves—why? Because she is the only girl?

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In other news, what happened to Audio?

Please remind me, who is Audio?

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In other news, what happened to Audio?

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Anonymous wrote:I finally watched the episode today. As others have said, Kate would constantly criticize Toby for the way he parented the children. Toby would try to make improvements. But what about Kate? She would break down when Toby criticized her. She would never try to make improvements to her own life. She acted as if she didn't think she need to make any improvements/do anything to save the marriage. It was all on Toby to make the changes.

Her character really did get worse as the show went on. There was no personal growth from her at all.

And Philip - yeah, we needed to see more back story as to what ignited that spark with Kate. From what I remember of his personality in previous seasons, he was kind of a jerk. But to now have him love Kate? Doesn't ring true at all.

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Phillip was shown as being pretty snarky and dismissive of Kate when she first started working at the school. Granted, I now see we're supposed to realized his "crusty" exterior was just a layer of protection over the traumatic loss of his wife, but still. As for the first wife, couldn't the writers simply have said she left him due to the IVF issue - and not that she was then hit by a drunk driver? Honestly, not everything has to be so tragic and dramatic.

OMG, so true! Didn't Coco Chanel famously advise to get fully dressed to go out, then take off one piece of jewelry? This Is Us writers should write their scripts, then go back and remove one tragic event.

Hahahah!!! EXACTLY this! One step (or maybe 3) over the line. To the point where I thought he was making it up to prove some other point.

I also thought, then Kate can't die because he can't lose 2 wives, right?

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Anonymous wrote:I finally watched the episode today. As others have said, Kate would constantly criticize Toby for the way he parented the children. Toby would try to make improvements. But what about Kate? She would break down when Toby criticized her. She would never try to make improvements to her own life. She acted as if she didn't think she need to make any improvements/do anything to save the marriage. It was all on Toby to make the changes.

Her character really did get worse as the show went on. There was no personal growth from her at all.

And Philip - yeah, we needed to see more back story as to what ignited that spark with Kate. From what I remember of his personality in previous seasons, he was kind of a jerk. But to now have him love Kate? Doesn't ring true at all.

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Phillip was shown as being pretty snarky and dismissive of Kate when she first started working at the school. Granted, I now see we're supposed to realized his "crusty" exterior was just a layer of protection over the traumatic loss of his wife, but still. As for the first wife, couldn't the writers simply have said she left him due to the IVF issue - and not that she was then hit by a drunk driver? Honestly, not everything has to be so tragic and dramatic.

OMG, so true! Didn't Coco Chanel famously advise to get fully dressed to go out, then take off one piece of jewelry? This Is Us writers should write their scripts, then go back and remove one tragic event.