THIS IS US S6 - last ever episodes 16.17.18 - blondes sits sobbing 🥲🥲🥲

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Last thread only had few messages to go so made a new one all ready for the last ever 3 Episodes 🥲🥲🥲

Just watched and agree it was underwhelming. Not rubbish, just "blah". I think had it been tagged on immediately after the Train episode it would have been great.

Not that, that would have changed the fact I really didn't like the end. Why was it all about Randall? Much better to have seen future them living fearlessly.

Slightly random thought - does anyone else feel like Sophie was really shortchanged? I’m sure she said she wanted kids at some point and because of Kevin’s immaturity / infidelity, she never got to have them. I know she’s not a major character but it irked me a bit that she seemed to lose her own identity when she got back with him. It’s one of the things I most appreciate about the way Beth was written - she’s a strong, confident woman with a real mind of her own and is respected for it by her husband. Sophie’s whole life story seems to have been defined by Kevin, which makes me a bit grumpy.

I'm not sure her whole life was defined by Kevin but yy to her wanting DCs and then not having them. That irked me in the last two episodes. It would have been easy enough to have a Kevin/Sophie DC in the house, playing with their half-siblings and cousins. Sophie felt like a tickbox so Kevin could be married. Once they were married, there wasn't a single significant conversation between them. Plus they didn't even get one of their weddings on the show but both of Kate's were featured!

I agree with a PP about the final shot being of Jack, being a bit odd. So much of series 1 was focused on Jack that it felt like it was His story. But in reality, Rebecca tied the whole thing together - it was Her story (not least because her hair always looked so flipping perfect - beautiful!)

I found it a sweet episode. A little underwhelming because I had hoped over the last 2 series that we would learn more about the next generation as adults, but we never did. Jack and Haley as siblings and the new big three would have been nice to see, but I guess we are just left to assume that everyone lives happily ever after (and I guess the show would never end!)

I agree that I was underwhelmed. Why was it all about Randall? The end scene particularly when he's surveying the room while Jack surveys his, but focuses on Randall. Odd. Kate and Kevin didn't get a look in. 🤔

I also think Kevin and Sophie have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever. They hug like friends, not an ounce of sexual chemistry at all. Beth and Randall had excellent on screen chemistry.

The music gave me a little lump in the throat but this season didn't have the impact of those earlier season twists and flash forwards. I'll still miss it. 😔

I was expecting a bit ‘more’ seeing as I have blubber through a lot of episodes! I think the funeral stuff should have been either at the end of the train episode or a seperate one.
then I think the last episode centring on a ‘any day’ Saturday was a good concept but should have shown all the different families at different points in time so Jack etc, then Beth and Randall with thier kids and then in the future with the grandkids, tony and Kate and then tony and Phillip and then baby Jack and his future family, Kevin in the future with Sophie and his kids etc and finally the grandkids as adults with thier own kids ina. Kind of life just keeps on going and going, even when we are gone a tiny part of us lives on in the hearts of others. They could have had the pin the tail on the donkey as a theme throughout all the random Saturdays

Also underwhelmed by that last episode. Seemed unneeded somehow.

Randall being the focus was also strange although I suppose in a lot of ways he was the focus - the idea of him being the third triplet and how he fits in to that idea.

Overall have loved it though and will miss it

Also a bit strange that at the funeral they had a photo propped up which was a picture of her when she was much much younger. No-one does that! ( Or do they? I mean she looked in her 20's)

I had a younger flattering photo of my mam on her coffin. She'd have haunted me if I'd put a recent one on! It wasn't 20s more 70s. She was 87. She only lost her looks in the last few months.

I feel like where they ended up was just so unrealistic that it ruined the whole thing for me really. What are the odds that those 3 kids would end up as a Hollywood actor, founder of an international music program with worldwide schools and President of the USA no less.....with a nephew who was a stadium filling pop star 🙄

Was very underwhelmed by the last 2 episodes

It would be nice to think society will move n in the coming decades but it’s very hard to imagine the Democrats selecting someone with Randall’s parents as their presidential candidate! Obama was put through enough. Two drug addicts isn’t going to win votes.

I was a bit underwhelmed too but any ending was either going to be a diminuendo unless they'd gone for melodramatic.

Agree adult Deja actress amazing in how she adopted teen Deja's mannerisms and way of speaking. Deja was always one of my favourites.

Still more chemistry between Toby and Kate than ever between Philip and her. I wish they hadn't shoehorned that divorce in. Think it was only ever to create a twist and drama and didn't fit with the characters.

I wanted melodramatic 😁.

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agree re katoby - their chemistry was great but they wanted different things, sadly.

I loved it from the first episode of the first series. It wasn’t perfect but overall I thought it was wonderfully written and acted.

Can someone please help me with a loose end ( in my mind) I think from season 4?

A middle aged white man- a doctor or a vet ? and I assume his teenage daughter. She is riding a horse in a paddock.

Who was he ??
TiA

@Timeandtune i think he was the doctor who tells Madison that she pregnant. Not 100% sure though

Thanks @PerditaNitt . Do you remember why that was significant? Going a bit mad here !

@Timeandtune he was supposed to be the new DR k for Madison and Kevin. But covid killed that storyline.

He said something significant about giving people a chance and not assuming you know how they'll react. His DD said it to him in relation to the horse. He said it to Madison and it made her give Kevin a chance to step up as a dad.

@DaisyQuakeJohnson oh yes! Like the lemons/lemonade speech.

Thanks everyone. That makes perfect sense now. Mystery solved !

I loved it. I wonder if the final episode focus on Randall (and Deja) was because of their adoption histories - that would seem to fit with the whole series theme that 'family' is complex.

I'm all caught up! I was not expecting the last episode to revolve around that game of pin the tail on a donkey. I loved how they had the foresight to film some of it 3/4 years ago so the little kids could be filmed

Was that a bit about Randall going to eat fried stuff in Ohio hinting at aspirations to be president???

I still have many questions!!!

My dgm's photo on her funeral order of service was one of her aged about 24. Where she looked the spitting image of me which I found rather unnerving. She was 96 when she died ...

Well every funeral that I have been to has had maybe a slightly younger photo but not one in their 20's