Anonymous
Post 12/06/2016 15:08     Subject: This Is Us
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought Kevin was in bed with Olivia!! That she came back to the cabin (?) So, posters are saying that he was in bed with the woman in the front row with the producer/director when he was auditioning? Seems SO random to me....or is that the same person who was at the cabin babbling about Disney?[/quote

It was the girl babbling about Disney who is the producer.



Thanks! She looked very different than what I remembered....a lot younger at the cabin.
Anonymous
Post 12/06/2016 14:55     Subject: This Is Us
Anonymous wrote:I thought Kevin was in bed with Olivia!! That she came back to the cabin (?) So, posters are saying that he was in bed with the woman in the front row with the producer/director when he was auditioning? Seems SO random to me....or is that the same person who was at the cabin babbling about Disney?[/quote

It was the girl babbling about Disney who is the producer.
Anonymous
Post 12/06/2016 14:51     Subject: This Is Us
I thought Kevin was in bed with Olivia!! That she came back to the cabin (?) So, posters are saying that he was in bed with the woman in the front row with the producer/director when he was auditioning? Seems SO random to me....or is that the same person who was at the cabin babbling about Disney?
Anonymous
Post 12/06/2016 14:19     Subject: This Is Us
Anonymous wrote:I will be interested to see how Rebecca's relationship breaks down with her children over the years. We know Kate doesn't really talk to her mom. We are seeing her relationship with Randall fall apart. It doesn't seem like adult Kevin has the best relationship with her either but we have yet to see that.


I'm also interested in why Kevin has such clear disdain for Miguel. Is it just because he misses his dad and resents Miguel's new place in the family? Or did something more specific happen between them? The look of contempt on Kevin's face when Miguel was trying to strike up conversation with him at Thanksgiving was chilling.
Anonymous
Post 12/06/2016 14:17     Subject: This Is Us
Anonymous wrote:I don't have an adoptive child, but I'm a single mom with full custody of my kids, and I completely understand Rebecca saying, "I cannot lose my son." Her point about the lack of paper train from the firehouse is completely reasonable. And you can totally see Randall's POV too. How bad he wanted to know his bio dad and now won't get enough time. It's heart-wrenching.

As a PP said, I've love to see Kevin kick ass in his role in the play and Olivia just feel like a moron. I hate people like her. What a loser.

I balled at the ending dojo scene.


I had never thought of this, but do you think she could have told him later than age 8? What about 30? What about 26? 21? I think it's a blind spot in the show. I kept thinking age 8, or now. But we don't see why she didn't tell him before 36....
Anonymous
Post 12/06/2016 14:12     Subject: Re:This Is Us
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I love that this show is tackling racial issues. Randall picking a pool that he knows more black people go to because even at 8 years-old he understands that he's different and wants to be around people that look like him. I'm glad that the mother put her ego aside and asked for help from the black woman.


That black woman at the pool was such a snot to Rebecca. Why did she feel the need to humiliate Rebecca, simply because Rebecca was the white adoptive mom of a black child? She could have kindly offered advice re: the rash on Randall's neck, but instead she chose to loudly patronize Rebecca simply because Rebecca hadn't run right over to the black families and introduced Randall. WTF? I was really glad Rebecca went back and schooled that know-it-all.

Of course, we know they'll become friends regardless, but the whole scene made me mad.


I agree. It was over the top. I don't like the idea that someone who is selflessly raising another person's child being ridiculed over something like the child's hair.


A. I understand where the black woman is coming from. A white family with a black child doesn't bother to introduce (or even acknowledge) themselves to the other black families is a big snub. With the history of black-white relations white people adopting black children is still a sensitive topic (rightfully so), the least she could do is be friendly to other black people for Randall's sake.

B. Rebecca isn't selflessly raising another person's child*, she's raising her own child, and she adopted for the same selfish reasons that people have biological children. If her bio son hadn't died they would have went home with 3 white bio kids. She 'selfishly' wanted to come home with 3 kids because that is what they had planned on, period!

*We have to stop looking at adoption as some savior act when it's just as arrogant and selfish as having a biological child.


Plus 1 (signed, adoptive mom)
Anonymous
Post 12/06/2016 13:35     Subject: This Is Us
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm very happy for the actor who plays Kevin (I think that's his name). He was on young and the restless and he's great!



Yes, THANK YOU! That is how I know him. (Watched Y&R on maternity leave a few years ago. )

He has an uncanny resemblance to Tom
Cruise.


PP, It is the Tom Cruise voice, IMO,just binge watched and am all caught up. LOVE!!!
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2016 12:42     Subject: This Is Us
Anonymous wrote:Since this coming Tuesday is the Fall Finale, does that mean the show is coming back for the Spring or will we have to wait until next fall?


It returns in January.
Anonymous
Post 12/03/2016 18:22     Subject: This Is Us
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I will miss this show during its hiatus!

I'm also impressed w Mandy Moore. My only frame of reference was the admittedly good The Princess Diaries



I'll miss it as well! Also enjoying Mandy Moore's acting and was not familiar with her at all. Probably too old to know her from any other roles but she's done so well playing all the different ages.


Rapunzel!
Anonymous
Post 12/03/2016 17:56     Subject: This Is Us
Anonymous wrote:I will miss this show during its hiatus!

I'm also impressed w Mandy Moore. My only frame of reference was the admittedly good The Princess Diaries



I'll miss it as well! Also enjoying Mandy Moore's acting and was not familiar with her at all. Probably too old to know her from any other roles but she's done so well playing all the different ages.
Anonymous
Post 12/03/2016 17:55     Subject: This Is Us
Since this coming Tuesday is the Fall Finale, does that mean the show is coming back for the Spring or will we have to wait until next fall?
Anonymous
Post 12/03/2016 16:55     Subject: This Is Us
I will be interested to see how Rebecca's relationship breaks down with her children over the years. We know Kate doesn't really talk to her mom. We are seeing her relationship with Randall fall apart. It doesn't seem like adult Kevin has the best relationship with her either but we have yet to see that.
Anonymous
Post 12/03/2016 14:21     Subject: This Is Us
I don't have an adoptive child, but I'm a single mom with full custody of my kids, and I completely understand Rebecca saying, "I cannot lose my son." Her point about the lack of paper train from the firehouse is completely reasonable. And you can totally see Randall's POV too. How bad he wanted to know his bio dad and now won't get enough time. It's heart-wrenching.

As a PP said, I've love to see Kevin kick ass in his role in the play and Olivia just feel like a moron. I hate people like her. What a loser.

I balled at the ending dojo scene.
Anonymous
Post 12/03/2016 11:18     Subject: This Is Us
I will miss this show during its hiatus!

I'm also impressed w Mandy Moore. My only frame of reference was the admittedly good The Princess Diaries
Anonymous
Post 12/03/2016 11:01     Subject: This Is Us
I loved the scene at the karate club when jack had to carry Randall on his back. I cried buckets. It was such a powerful scene with all the role models and jack being able to be part of that for his son. I'm torn - I love William and wish he had been part of Randall's childhood - but at the same time, I Belize jack made Randall who he is and Randall grew up to be an amazing man!