Anonymous
Post 01/11/2018 00:16     Subject: This Is Us -- Season 2
I have had a hard time sympathizing with Kevin this entire series. But that last part got me - where he comes into the bedroom and there’s no more room in his parents’ bed. finally put his “plight” into perspective.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2018 00:03     Subject: Re:This Is Us -- Season 2
I found Beth to be unlikable this episode. I felt she was disrespectful of Jack's memory and just plain rude to Pearsons. It's weird that she's full of empathy towards many other people, just not her husband's family.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2018 23:25     Subject: Re:This Is Us -- Season 2
I hate to say it but I’m finding Metz’s weight distracting. It was a good story line and you want it to be over (like in a tv show, not real life).
Sterling was great as usual. Justin is better than he gets credit for. What’s wrong with Mandy Moore’s glasses? It’s her hairstyle I don’t understand.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2018 21:02     Subject: Re:This Is Us -- Season 2
I was really disappointed in the show early this season but think the last four episodes have been fantastic.

I heavily sympathize with Kevin and feel like Justin Hartley has been SO overlooked while Sterling Brown and Chrissy Metz get the accolades. He's doing an incredible job portraying Kevin
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2018 16:00     Subject: Re:This Is Us -- Season 2
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought Rebecca's arc was the more devastating in that therapy scene. Mandy Moore hit it out of the park IMHO.

I agree a lot with Randall that Kevin is searching for attention quite a bit and that they had a great childhood until Jack died. On the other had, I get that Kevin is predisposed to addition as part of that attention-seeking, understandably given how Kevin thinks of himself as the family fifth-wheel.

I think I love the Other "Big Three" even more now even Toby. I've always been team Miguel and Beth is just the brightest light in the Pearson sky.


Totally agree with your comments, especially about Mandy Moore. Is she a mother IRL? Because she absolutely nails that part, every time. I almost lost it during the therapy scene when she finally broke down and admitted that Randall was just “easier,” especially compared to the sullen teens that Kevin and Kate were. I think we all have kids like that, or stages when one kid is just far more pleasant to be around than the other(s). I know I do. And then the dynamics will often change. I completely felt her guilt over favoring Randall.


This is why I'm loving this show! It's honest. She didn't want Randall in the beginning. Randall was her favorite as a teen. I love all my kids, but I like certain ones better. One of my 3 was unexpected - I didn't "want" to be pregnant right then, but made the best of it and he is now, btw, my favorite!
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2018 15:35     Subject: Re:This Is Us -- Season 2
Anonymous wrote:I thought Rebecca's arc was the more devastating in that therapy scene. Mandy Moore hit it out of the park IMHO.

I agree a lot with Randall that Kevin is searching for attention quite a bit and that they had a great childhood until Jack died. On the other had, I get that Kevin is predisposed to addition as part of that attention-seeking, understandably given how Kevin thinks of himself as the family fifth-wheel.

I think I love the Other "Big Three" even more now even Toby. I've always been team Miguel and Beth is just the brightest light in the Pearson sky.


Totally agree with your comments, especially about Mandy Moore. Is she a mother IRL? Because she absolutely nails that part, every time. I almost lost it during the therapy scene when she finally broke down and admitted that Randall was just “easier,” especially compared to the sullen teens that Kevin and Kate were. I think we all have kids like that, or stages when one kid is just far more pleasant to be around than the other(s). I know I do. And then the dynamics will often change. I completely felt her guilt over favoring Randall.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2018 15:05     Subject: This Is Us -- Season 2
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:

I felt bad for Mandy Moore when he was talking to her about ignoring him his whole childhood. I could see my own kids not remembering all those little moments that we pour ourselves into each kid, and yet all they really remember is the time we disappoint them.


Yep, Moms are always the "bad" guy when it comes to parenting.

I just wish the writer would make Rebecca more hip and take those silly glasses off of her. She's in her 50's not her 70's!


She's 67 in the present since she was 30 (she says so in the Steeler Super Bowl episode) when the triplets were born and they are now 37. I don't think they overly age her style. I thought when they aged her for Tess' birth she looked like my friends and me in our mid-50s style-wise!
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2018 14:55     Subject: This Is Us -- Season 2
Anonymous wrote:

I felt bad for Mandy Moore when he was talking to her about ignoring him his whole childhood. I could see my own kids not remembering all those little moments that we pour ourselves into each kid, and yet all they really remember is the time we disappoint them.


Yep, Moms are always the "bad" guy when it comes to parenting.

I just wish the writer would make Rebecca more hip and take those silly glasses off of her. She's in her 50's not her 70's!
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2018 13:36     Subject: Re:This Is Us -- Season 2
I think if I had a kid with food issues I would just keep the junk out of the house. It’s not fair to let the boys eat sugar cereal (earlier episode) and cookies and tell her she has to have fruit instead. I think food became a thing with her father. He used it to make her happy. I think he was probably the bigger cause. It seems like it was a prominent part of their relationship.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2018 13:22     Subject: This Is Us -- Season 2
I just watched the latest episode. Can we please talk about Kate’s character when she was a young girl? I have a child like her with food. What on earth could her mother have done differently? Is it just addiction? She tried to encourage healthier eating with saying I will cut up an apple for us because we both have already had some cookies. I’m sure it made young Kate feel badly but what is the alternative? Ugh. I feel like I’m going to mess up my kid.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2018 10:52     Subject: This Is Us -- Season 2
Anonymous wrote:

I felt bad for Mandy Moore when he was talking to her about ignoring him his whole childhood. I could see my own kids not remembering all those little moments that we pour ourselves into each kid, and yet all they really remember is the time we disappoint them.


Exactly! And it also made me think that I may not be fairly remembering some of my own childhood.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2018 10:29     Subject: Re:This Is Us -- Season 2
I thought Rebecca's arc was the more devastating in that therapy scene. Mandy Moore hit it out of the park IMHO.

I agree a lot with Randall that Kevin is searching for attention quite a bit and that they had a great childhood until Jack died. On the other had, I get that Kevin is predisposed to addition as part of that attention-seeking, understandably given how Kevin thinks of himself as the family fifth-wheel.

I think I love the Other "Big Three" even more now even Toby. I've always been team Miguel and Beth is just the brightest light in the Pearson sky.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2018 10:08     Subject: This Is Us -- Season 2
But its interesting that even the "White Privileged Boy" who should have a perfect life doesn't feel that way. I'm sure we would all say he is perfect, but his perspective is different.

I felt bad for Mandy Moore when he was talking to her about ignoring him his whole childhood. I could see my own kids not remembering all those little moments that we pour ourselves into each kid, and yet all they really remember is the time we disappoint them.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2018 10:00     Subject: This Is Us -- Season 2
I am a big This Is Us fan. But I just wasn't all that into this episode and have been liking Kevin less and less. I just can't work up much sympathy for him.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2018 09:48     Subject: Re:This Is Us -- Season 2
Any thoughts on last night's episode? I feel like it started out a little slow, but I was once again crying at the end. It made a really interesting point about how we all see the same situations differently.