"This is us" Series 6 (Spoiler Alert)

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Does anyone else watch this show?

I love it, but nobody seems to know about it!

@Aboutcoffee

I have to watch the rest of the episode but I kind of thought so much for saint Jack... 13 years and he couldn't drive to the next state?

I was also quite shocked at this. I mean if he was so supportive of her, just why would he not visit. He meant so much to her.

This episode added nothing to the main story line as the character is dead. Not even the kids or Rebecca were really involved in it. It was like a spin off. Not sure what point there was tbh except to stretch the storyline out.

Maybe some characters appear in the future?

"I was also quite shocked at this.
I mean if he was so supportive of her, just why would he not visit. He meant so much to her."

Yup!

And the kids weren't that old, so he hadn't been working flat out & with a family either!

F-forwarded through the whole episode. Where's Kate's story, and Kevin's? Move it on. There are two more generations to cover.

Finished it. A good one to FF I think.

Waste of an episode except maybe to show how less than perfect Jack was. Who wouldn't bring their kids to see the mother they love so much. Sure for all he knew her life in Ohio might have been awful?

The only good thing was Cousin Debbie because I recognised the actor from The Practice but I guess we won't see her again. And zero mention of Nicky? So strange.

@Aboutcoffee

Finished it. A good one to FF I think.

Waste of an episode except maybe to show how less than perfect Jack was. Who wouldn't bring their kids to see the mother they love so much. Sure for all he knew her life in Ohio might have been awful?

The only good thing was Cousin Debbie because I recognised the actor from The Practice but I guess we won't see her again. And zero mention of Nicky? So strange.

That is so true. Where was NIcky? Surely he would have come to his mother's funeral?

It was weird that there was no reference to Nicky. In Jack's eulogy he just acts like his family was of 3.
Like the rest of you, I want to know more about the future.

Where was NIcky? Surely he would have come to his mother's funeral?

That would’ve been awkward seeing as it was believed he’d died in Vietnam (although Jack knew he was alive).

I thought it was a great turn by Milo as Jack, but can relate to those wondering why a whole episode was dedicated to this in the left season. I hope maybe it’s the goodbye to the focus on Jack. Perhaps it foretells the goodbyes to their mother that we will get from the Big Three etc?

The promo trailer for next week is online for anyone interested. Looks a good one to me.

@MadisonAvenue

Where was NIcky? Surely he would have come to his mother's funeral?

That would’ve been awkward seeing as it was believed he’d died in Vietnam (although Jack knew he was alive).

All the same, there was zero reference to him, even when speaking in the church. It was a bit strange.

I forgot Jack knew that Nicky was alive. That makes it worse, why wouldn't he let home know his mother had died?

Thinking too much about this

Jack had completely disowned Nicky for his behaviour and actions in Vietnam, so Nicky was dead to Jack.

Nicky could have overridden Jack to be in contact with his mother over the years if he'd really wanted to.

(But yes, as St Jack of Pearson was all about understanding and forgiving human frailties he could have softened towards Nicky by the time of the mother's death. However as Nicky had caused the death of an innocent child, perhaps Jack just couldn't ever forgive him for that and even more so when he became a dad himself.)

I am pretty tempted to wait until next week to watch this episode (in fast forward), so that I can watch the next one too.

So disappointed they wasted a whole episode on Jack; we still need to fit in 2x Randall anxiety attacks, 3x Kevin making bad choices, 2x Kate acting overly dramatic, 5x Miguel in situations where he is clearly thinking “why the f*ck did I marry into this overly dramatic family”, 3x Beth calming Randall down with her trademark sass to complete the series (based on precedent). This will leave us with precise 53 minutes of running time to cover new jack, Hayley, Kevin’s twins, deja’s pregnancy, tess and the other forgotten daughter, Kate’s new bloke and Nicky/edie…..

All the same, there was zero reference to him, even when speaking in the church.
It was a bit strange.

My brother managed to do a eulogy for my dad without even implying he had two other kids, let alone mentioning us. And we're both alive, not even assumed dead, and were at the funeral. So - it could happen......

I did miss the Big 3 in this episode but god, I was blubbing at the end when Jack said, I won’t keep you 😥

Everything @PerditaNitt said!!! 😂

Agree with every word

So Jack wasn’t a saint. He was a pretty mediocre son from the 1980s onwards - yes, he had a full time job and triplets but the 6pm calls were quite brief and on one occasion he didn’t answer at all. To be unaware of Michael and the cat was pretty appalling given what they obv meant to her, but she never got a chance to talk about her life it seems. He didn’t know about Debbie’s flower shop even though his mother had been helping out there. I thought the episode was well-made.

Devoting a whole episode to him when there will be no more series after this seems a little wasteful though. TBH I’m done with the 1960s - 1980s now. I’m interested in how Miguel and Rebecca actually got together (I know they started chatting on Facebook when she’d just become a grandmother) but other than that I want to know about the present and the future.

It's odd that the Big Three are so focused on family traditions and the relationships between their DCs and their grandparents when neither Jack or Rebecca prioritised their relationships with their parents. It undermines the theme of family relationships recreating patterns.

@ShinyHappyPoster

It's odd that the Big Three are so focused on family traditions and the relationships between their DCs and their grandparents when neither Jack or Rebecca prioritised their relationships with their parents. It undermines the theme of family relationships recreating patterns.

I agree with this, I was surprised that Jack didn't even know about the cat or his mum's boyfriend or the flower shop. But the phone calls highlighted that they never really chatted about anything. Jack's mum didn't want to be a burden or take up his time or put any demands on him at all. She saw Jack was happy and settled, and was content that he'd made his own happy family. It was probably easier for Jack to not insist and time slipped by.

Jack's dad was a lost cause and Rebecca's parents were too for a different reason (never accepting Jack) so it doesn't surprise me that they went NC.

But Jack really should have visited his mum with the kids and Rebecca. It's kind of inexcusable really.

It is. I felt very disappointed in him and in the writers. The implication that an abusive relationship affects all the relationships afterwards (as Jack state in the eulogy) is true but it's also an excuse for Jack 'rescuing' his mum from his dad, then dumping her hours away and never maintaining that relationship. I don't know anyone who becomes a parent and doesn't re-evaluate their relationship with their own parents. But Jack became a parent, and didn't once reconsider his relationship with his mum?

It also made no sense at all that Nicky wouldn't have been there or been mentioned. They never said at any point that Nicky pretended to his parents that he was dead.

This episode irrationally annoyed me!

But with regard to Nicky, only Jack could have told him about the funeral, or mentioned him in the speeches and Jack had cut Nicky out a long time before, so it does make sense that Nicky wasn't there or mentioned because there was only Jack to do it and he wasn't going to. Cousin Debbie clearly wasn't going to either.

I don't think we were told as viewers what Nicky's parents were told about his non return after Vietnam, but Nicky's dad clearly wouldn't have bothered trying to trace Nicky and Nicky's mum was not the sort to go hiring private detectives and tracing him etc. I can't remember if Jack spun a story about it or not. In modern times it's hard to imagine that Nicky wouldn't be traced and informed, but back then it was probably a lot easier to quietly disappear.

I'm pretty sure the army sent someone to tell the parents that Nicky was dead. Or at least presumed dead.

The army knew Nicky wasn't dead. They evacuated him out on medical leave. There's no way the army would have told his family that he was dead when they knew he was alive.