This Is Us Finale

After six seasons and 106 episodes, the series finale airs Tuesday, May 24, at 9 p.m. ET on NBC. “If the past six seasons have been any indication ...

“This has been three years in the making, and I think in his mind, he knew the last episode when he knew the first episode,” Watson said. Susan Kelechi Watson plays Beth, who is Randall’s wife and one of the main characters in the show. It also flashes back to see more of Jack and Rebecca’s story, and it flashes forward to what happens with each person in the future. It felt like we’d been given this opportunity to close things out respectfully, wholeheartedly for the characters.” The episode ends with Rebecca and Jack being reunited. How will the show end?

The hit NBC drama comes to an end tonight after six tear-jerking seasons. Here's how to stream the 'This Is Us' series finale online for free. By. Tim Chan ...

Sign up now and use the trial to stream the This Is Us finale free tonight. Binged the finale and now want to catch up on the award-winning series? If you’re okay with waiting (no spoilers!) you can watch the This Is Us finale on Peacock following its live airdate on Tuesday night. I think the nostalgia is ‘gonna be seeping from the TV screen,” she reveals. The free trial period is seven days, so you have plenty of time to use it to watch other live TV channels as well. Prefer to pick and choose or own the content? fuboTV has a free trial that you can use to livestream the This Is Us finale as it airs. Another way to watch the This Is Us finale online is through fuboTV, which offers NBC in most markets. Get the free trial here. You also get unlimited DVR so you can record the show and watch the This Is Us finale on-demand later. fubo is currently offering a 7-day free trial, which you can grab here to watch This Is Us online for free. Now, the series comes to an end, a commendable six seasons and 105 episodes later.

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The all-star cast made us laugh, cry, and everything in between as the series became a critical and commercial hit. HOW TO WATCH THE THIS IS US SERIES FINALE LIVE ONLINE: Debuting on NBC all the way back in September of 2016, the beloved family drama was an instant fan favorite.

It's time to bid farewell and shed a few more tears with the Pearsons with the “This Is Us” series finale Tuesday night. The show's final episode airs ...

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And it really fulfills one side of me, I guess, the control freak. I was like well, even though that’s something that served me so much in the past, it’s not a part of my life anymore moving forward. There’s a lot of jazz and really playing the classics for Gus. He’s really into “Wheels on the Bus” right now. We make up a lot of songs for him and we practice a lot of our songs, as well. Moore: We will be revisiting some songs from the past, but there are plenty of songs that I don’t think deserve to be revisited. Q: The series finale of “This is Us” is airing Tuesday and was screened last night. Literally being in the studio, and I just remember coming away from that going, I need this, I have to figure out how this is going to be a bigger part of my life again. We’d been trying to have a family for a while, and it just wasn’t happening. Moore: I’ll be able to listen back years from now and remember what a moment in time it was. Moore’s In Real Life Tour launches June 10 in Atlanta and will stop at the Carolina Theatre of Durham on June 12. “It’s very bittersweet, but I get to feel all of these feelings, and like put them on stage every day and not just kind of jump into another job,” she said. The studio album, “ In Real Life,” which was released in May, is her first LP since she and Goldsmith had their son.

“This Is Us” season finale is set for Tuesday, May 24, at 8 p.m. (9 p.m. ET). Will it be live streamed?

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Now, after six seasons and over 100 hundred episodes, the beloved drama is about to air its final installment. If you can't watch the series finale live, don't ...

Here’s when the This Is Us series finale will be available for next-day streaming on Hulu. Starring Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz, and Justin Hartley, This Is Us debuted to both critical and commercial acclaim all the way back in September of 2016. On back-to-back nights?!

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They may think that “OK, they’re telling me that this is Déjà ‘s [ Lyric Ross] boyfriend, but they’re going to throw us a twist here.” So, then, we ask ourselves what’s the thing that they’re expecting to be the twist and how do you undermine that? It was a shock when Jack appeared in the hospital scene — we weren’t quite sure in which time period that story with Kenny ( Dulé Hill) and his family was taking place. It was important for the nature of this TV show that we give this moment a “wish-fulfillment” ending.

"This Is Us" says something good: We're drawn to a story about conscientious people trying to do the right things and to love with all their hearts.

What a TV show can do, however, and what “This Is Us” has done so admirably, is capture something essential about life in a way that captivates and moves us. Is it not a thumb in their eye to see such a conspicuous absence of religion in a top-rated TV show that engages life’s deepest meanings? In a moment of ill-advised valor, after he has already saved his wife and kids from the fire engulfing the family home, he rushes back inside to rescue the dog. As one who is often disappointed by human behavior, including my own, I am heartened that "This Is Us" commands such a following, topping all other scripted TV dramas in the 2021-22 season despite a dearth of smash-bang action. May we be worthy of the compliment. The inexorable worsening of the disease to the point where your parent is still alive yet in a real sense gone. – ends up back in the arms of the love of his life. What a contrast to the behavior so prominently on display in politics and on so many other popular shows. The forgetfulness that begins to appear. The initial denials that anything is wrong. He is warm, selfless, firm in his convictions and graceful in living them out. As he ages, thankfully, Kevin becomes more adept at aligning his ideals and behavior and more accepting of the less-than-perfect.

The This Is Us series finale "feels purposefully a little different in a really good way," creator Dan Fogelman tells EW.

"You're going to sit and live with this family on a really simple day in the past, and a really special, really important day in the future, which is the day of their mother's funeral." I don't think you're going to get to the end of it and feel that you have missed anything." "The finale feels like a time capsule of a family; it feels purposefully a little different in a really good way," Fogelman says. "Simple." You're going to hear that word a lot when Fogelman and the cast talk about this final installment. "This one was borne out of the simple thing of — which has always been the principle of the show — you live on through your children and those who you've touched long after your death," Fogelman tells EW of the series finale. That sounds rather funereal and somber, and, sure, there is some requisite mourning that will need to be done by the Big Three after Rebecca's exquisite train ride into the afterlife last week.

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A metaphor came to life in the penultimate episode of the series, as a young Rebecca boarded a train headed to the afterlife while future Rebecca lay in her hospice bed. You might’ve thought as you started watching that the fifth season finale was about Kevin’s wedding to Madison, the mother of his twins; in fact, that’s what they wanted you to think — until the Fogelman came. We’ve known since the beginning that Jack was dead in the present day, but the actual circumstances of his death were unknown to all until the show’s big post–Super Bowl episode. Sometimes the subject would be unknown to the Pearsons, like the person who invented video chatting, and others would be intimate glimpses into the lives of important Pearson figures, like Randall’s birth father. The first episode of This Is Us featured scenes of a very pregnant couple celebrating the father’s birthday intercut between the three Pearson siblings celebrating their own 36th birthdays. Of course, the series, which followed the Pearson family throughout the generations — from the birth of the Big Three siblings to the death of their parents, flashing back to dad Jack and mom Rebecca’s ( Mandy Moore) childhoods along the way, and even forward to the birth of the siblings’ own grandchildren — became known for its tear-jerking moments as well.

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This Is Us is focused on the catharsis and not the twists! And then we’re back in the Pearson living room, and Little Randall looks over at his dad sitting on the couch, and Jack is sitting there, watching his family play and laugh together. We go back to Rebecca and Jack in bed on that train, and Mom and Dad are looking superhot even in death. • We get one last “worst-case scenario” game with Beth and Randall all about how Beth is worried that, since Randall has now lost all four of his parents (plus Miguel!), he might spend his days roaming the country to go cry single tears at other people’s parent’s funerals or driving from tree to tree to visit his parents’ resting places. Dear Lord, I know it’s cheesy as hell and earnest to a fault, and I think that Big Three cheer is kind of ridiculous, but this scene left me a mess! Kevin is going to focus on his nonprofit and his home and family. The series starts with Randall meeting his birth father, William, and it ends with him learning about his grandson William. I would be bawling my face off if it weren’t for Randall’s pitch-perfect reaction to learning he’s going to finally have a boy in the family. Early on in Rebecca’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, she told Miguel she wasn’t scared about forgetting “the big stuff,” but she was afraid of losing her memories of all the small moments that made up her life — “the regular Saturday when the kids were little,” when “nothing big really happens” but they were together and they were laughing. So much of this series, especially the later seasons, has been about mending that relationship and highlighting how they’ve really been there for each other (oh God, remember Rebecca comforting Kate when she had her miscarriage?). Toby comes up to Kate on the morning of the funeral to tell her three things: Yes, he loves her and he’s proud of her, but most importantly, her mother was proud of her. It took him a little while and a lot of work, like Rebecca told him it would, but in the end, Kevin did a very, very good thing. Deja’s having a boy, and she wants to name him William. It doesn’t matter that she never met Randall’s father: “I know him because I know you,” she tells her dad. They play four square in the driveway, and we see Adult Kate now watching her kids and nieces and nephews doing the same.

'This Is Us' series finale recap: The Pearsons gather for Rebecca's funeral in Season 6, Episode 18.

She and Jack are in bed in the caboose, and he remarks that he “missed that little scar” on her brow. “You’re going to have a grandson,” she says, asking if it’s OK if she and Malik name the kid William. “Your grandson is going to be named after a man I never met, but I know him, because I know you,” she says. They do a very glurgey reenactment of their Big Three chant — in the whole episode, it was the only thing that felt unrealistic to me — and then the guys reassure Kate that they’re not going to drift apart, something that brings tears to Randall’s eyes once more. “I don’t want to watch them shower or anything.” (Ha!) He smiles and says that won’t happen, “but you’ll be there.” “You have a creepy glow about you,” Kevin tells his brother when he and Kate join him on the cabin’s steps later. We watch as William says goodbye to Tess and Annie (they are BABIES here!), then reflects in the hallway outside the girls’ room about how being a grandparent is ironic: You have “unconditional, easy, pure love” for someone whose life you probably won’t share for long. Rebecca is struck by the racial diversity of the kids on the cover (“Maybe there’s another family out there like ours”), and she demands that they buy it, because “When the world puts something this obvious in front of you, you don’t just walk away from it.” He relents, but sighs that they’re not going to use it much. In the present, on the morning of Rebecca’s funeral, Randall hasn’t been able to prepare much in the way of remarks aside from “Mom was magic. Rebecca follows Kevin upstairs and susses out that he’s really upset because he couldn’t do a pull-up in the President’s Physical Fitness Test. (Side note: Full transparency here — those four words still strike horror in my sedentary-as-a-kid heart.) Rebecca bucks him up by telling him that it’s OK if not everything in life comes easily, and that the big victories will be more special “when you have to work a little harder for them.” Then Kevin, in a rare moment of not being a pain in the tush, tells his mother she’s good at this kind of pep talk. When they come downstairs, showing off their new, manly mugs, they join Kate in playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey. And then, in the LAST FLASHBACK EVER, we go back to the moment when the kids were babies, and Rebecca and Jack saw the game on the shelf in the toy store. At breakfast, however, Jack and Rebecca’s joy at a free day is met with apathy from Kevin and Randall. Kate comes up with the idea of playing Foursquare and drawing on the driveway with chalk, which they do for a while, but then rain interferes with the outdoor plans. He notices a scar under her eyebrow that he’s never seen before; she says she’s had it since she was a child, and it tends to become more prominent when she’s had some sun.

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Is it a bit of a stretch that all those kids would ignore their phones and play a decades-old game like Pin the Tail on the Donkey? You bet. Taking a seat with these characters — as millions of fans did week after week for the last six years — and respecting what that means feels like a proper send-off. Is it a bit odd that Rebecca (along with Kevin and Kate) takes a backseat at the very end for the audience’s two favorite dads? For a second, I expected the two scenes to merge, and we’d be back on the train with Rebecca for some kind of additional send-off. When Deja reminds him she’s pregnant, that he’ll be a grandfather, and tells him she’s having a boy — to be named William — his teary excitement rings true. Yes, the mere mention of William and Randall’s trip to Memphis is enough to evoke nostalgic sorrow for their heartbreaking goodbye. From there, in the early ’90s, Jack becomes the Captain of Morale, asking the kids to come up with ideas of what to do with their free day together and then jubilantly enjoying each activity. Soon enough, the family is gathered to play Pin the Tail on the Donkey — a game Jack found shortly after the kids were born and predicted they’d rarely play. The former could (and did) upend the latter, as too many twists unbalanced scenes of genuine substance, but “This Is Us” was a hit — a massive success for NBC and network TV alike. Instead, back in the present, the Pearson family at large picks out the same game to keep them entertained and together after Rebecca’s funeral. Whether relieved of its burden to snare live viewers or naturally gliding to its story’s end, the finale, written by creator Dan Fogelman and simply titled “Us,” set aside any last vestiges of the “Twist Is Us” moniker. Rebecca explains how she got it, describing how much she loved when her father pushed her on the swingset, and she remembers how much time she wasted worrying about when he would stop.

It was an end of an era for NBC as 'This Is Us' and the story of the Pearsons came to a close on Tuesday night.

To my brother and sister, @justinhartley& @ChrissyMetzI love you guys so damn much! — ThisIsUsWriters (@ThisIsUsWriters)May 24, 2022 — Elan Mastai (@elanmastai)May 24, 2022 I’m asking you to be fearless.” – Rebecca Pearson #ThisIsUs pic.twitter.com/hlQ43UqR8F Metz, who said she’s been “forever changed” by her work as Kate Pearson, shared a video compilation of her favorite moments from the series’ run. “Thank you, thank you, from the bottom of our sweet R&B hearts for being on this journey with us and sharing yours in the process. As the NBC series neared its final moments other members of the This Is Us family reacted to the finale on social media. — Dan Fogelman (@Dan_Fogelman)May 24, 2022 He continued: “I hope tonight satisfies and leaves you thinking, and feeling, and even smiling. In his lengthy social media post, Fogelman thanked fans who followed the Pearson family, “whether you stayed from start to finish, or lapsed somewhere in between.” “”The end of This Is Us has been a bittersweet but lovely march for those of us who have worked on it. For six seasons, the family drama created by Dan Fogelman starred Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Chrissy Metz, Sterling K. Brown and Justin Hartley as the loving members of the Pearson family.

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And I wanted that to be the feeling in the end. Literally and structurally, I wanted that to be the case with how we ended the show. The final message of “This Is Us,” what the ending is all about and what the whole show has really been about, in a lot of ways, is a very simple promise that people who you lose live on through the people left behind. I knew I wanted to end on the sentiment of children looking at their parents, locking in on something they’re going to carry forward into their lives. And it’s a bit of a hard thing to wrap your head around, but when you widen out — as the show has hopefully done by spanning multiple generations of the family — you can see the connective tissue and can see how the people you lose remain in the picture the entire time. These scenes all take place on a rather uneventful day in the Pearsons’ past, when the whole family had a lazy weekend to share together.

'This is Us' ended its six season run with what creator Dan Fogelman called 'a slice-of-life day' for the Pearson family.

The show peaked at an average of 17 million viewers during Season 2 in 2017-18 (including seven days of delayed viewing), which included 26 million for a post-Super Bowl episode, according to Nielsen. This season, the show is averaging 8 million viewers per week. Fogelman believes it's possible that another family drama can achieve similar success in a broadcast TV landscape mostly dependent on police procedurals, because “being part of a family is probably the most universal experience. “I wanted the finale to capture a moment in time of an American family, and also this American family,” he says. In “The Train,” directed by frequent collaborator Ken Olin (“Thirtysomething”), present-day Rebecca lies motionless in bed as she experiences the final stages of Alzheimer’s disease. “That line,” she says, “the first time (McRaney) delivered it, my heart exploded. “In the script, it just said, ‘Randall drifts through time and space at his mother’s funeral, and he can’t experience anything.’ And it was all the more fitting for Randall, this man of words, that he doesn’t remember a word he said.” That a network family drama sustained such a devoted following proves “This is Us” was a unicorn in the current TV landscape. Guided by a reassuring William (Ron Cephas Jones), Randall’s birth father who died at the end of the first season, Rebecca glides through the train cars, interacting with family both living and dead. It was more like, ‘OK, cool, let’s capture this time capsule with the kids this age.’ I feel like their pseudo-mom and I can’t believe how much they’ve grown now,” she says, with genuine awe. Jack, he of the sporadic facial hair, and Rebecca, she of the sweet, doe-eyed disposition, spend a lazy weekend day with their young trio, each child demonstrating the burgeoning personality traits that would define their adulthood. Life, as illuminated in Tuesday’s finale of NBC’s “This is Us,” isn’t tidy – or finite. “For my mom’s funeral, I did the same as Randall – I stayed up all night and stressed over every single word, and the next day I wasn’t present for any of it.

Justin Hartley, Chrissy Metz and Sterling K. Brown in the 'This is Us' series finale. The following contains spoilers about the "This is ...

Still, Fogelman used that time to emphasize smaller exchanges and give more characters a stake in the finale. That exchange captured the interconnectedness of it all, and the show's Scrooge-like ability (after his ghost-given epiphany) to operate in the past, present and future. With Rebecca's death, "This is Us" embraced an overtly spiritual quality by advancing the idea that the people we love and lose live on through us.

Mandy Moore attempts to say goodbye to 'This Is Us' and reflects on the series finale which, in parts, was filmed years ago.

“It was a revelation with the audience watching it the other day, like, ‘Oh, that’s what we did.’ I truly didn’t remember, it was so long ago.” It was effortless from the beginning, and it was effortless through the end. “I feel like giving myself a little bit of time and distance to figure out what the next step is, and ultimately [try] something really different. I take what William’s character said in the previous episode to heart — if something does makes you sad, it’s because you really loved it while it was unfolding, while it was happening.” It was so indicative of our relationship and the way we always supported each other and had each other’s back. We were Mom and Dad.’ It was so easy to be present and even to just take in what [Rebecca] was saying, ‘I’m scared of the unknown, I don’t know how to do this,'” she said through tears.

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“Randall’s political journey ahead of him is probably the closest we come in this show to our Sopranos going to black at the end of the episode, and you’re left to choose your own adventure as to what you think happens with him,” Fogelman told reporters, chuckling. “I’m pretty set on this being it,” Fogelman said on the call. Fogelman told reporters he always thought the show’s final dialogue would be Jack and Rebecca exchanging “I love you”s, as it is in the episode — albeit with some background noise from the other scenes in the montage. The show is about family and time, and the way a family loves one another. “The reason was the theme of the show, the very thing that’s spoken about at the end of the series: Just because somebody leaves doesn’t mean the world doesn’t continue and that they don’t continue living on with the family. It’s literally why I had to watch the first cut of the past footage with my wife [series star Caitlin Thompson], which I’ve never done before, because I was too scared to watch it alone.”

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And I think that will be a real part of the ongoing legacy of the show. I always knew in my mind's eye that the final words of the series would be a simple, "I love you" between two characters — probably Jack and Rebecca — and that the final shot would be some version of the kids or a kid looking at a parent who was looking at his or her family. And once we got into the details of writing that scene four years ago — and once I saw that shot of Lonnie looking at Milo — I knew that would be the final shot of the series. What the show is saying quite literally is you carry this stuff forward with you — those who survive — and you pass it off to your kids and they will pass off versions of it to their own. They were all told, "These will not be verbally in the show, but I want to feel you talking and being sweet and being funny, so that I can capture it with the audience, but it will all be like a bomb has gone off in Sterling's head and he's just floating through the day." In terms of the end point of his political career, it's something that we wanted to touch upon lightly — and it's the closest we come to the Sopranos family scene in that diner and everything just going to black. I thought: How confident, how cool and how important it would be to just end on a day with these kids, at an age you haven't seen in a while, that was just a simple regular day in the life? I was like, "Listen, we're going to make this now, and you're either going to pay for it now or you're going to pay for it later. It felt important to me that there not be this huge, giant serialized plot line in the past story of the final episode, but rather this simple day that's just borne out of what it is to be a family. And it was important to me to find that at the end of this series and leave people with that, because that was ultimately the core principle of the show. What appealed to you about ending the series on a note that reaffirmed its themes that family is forever and past generations live on with us well past their time on Earth? Because the last montage of This Is Us ended with little Randall on the couch with his dad, soaking up a moment of the family laughing and wrestling.

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Whenever I mention there is a new episode of This Is Us to watch, my Catholic husband (with his tongue firmly pressed into his cheek) refers to it as “going to church.” The reason? Seeing this representation of his struggles with alcohol and the warmth Nicky exudes when he is sober has felt like seeing my dad again. Adult Jack (Blake Stadnik) is not too out of touch to take his child to the park to play on the swings, as the montage at the start of “Us” depicts. For me, there is so much about Nicky that reminds me of my father, who passed away the year This Is Us debuted. The chant isn’t the glue that keeps them together, but it is a tangible link to their father. Younger Kate wants to watch home movies, and Jack pulls out the debut performance, much to the annoyance of Kevin because he’s seen it “like a million times.” A swing is why Rebecca has a scar on her eye, but this is a permanent reminder of the time she spent with her father. Timelines stack on top of timelines, and the scene cuts to Jack filming this original recital. Perhaps the most poignant part of this final conversation between siblings is when they do the “Big Three” chant that made its first appearance in the second-ever episode. Choosing to pair a familiar weekend set-up with a solemn ritual softens the overall tone, and the latter is (thankfully) less focused on the funeral itself and more about what comes next. “Us” is far more understated in comparison, combining two elements the series excels at portraying: the mundane and the meaningful. Early in the This Is Us finale, all-time great emoter Randall Pearson ( Sterling K. Brown) effectively sums up my mood about writing this farewell to the NBC drama: “I’m okay.

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Did Fogelman know that image was on the box when he decided it would play such a big part in This Is Us? So settle in with a box of tissues and a final reminder from Rebecca: Live fearlessly. And there has to be a movie, right?

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And with that, we wrap our ever-expanding coverage of Jack’s adult life, chronicled in the gallery above. Why such a light touch on the flash-forward button in the finale, you wonder? As those of you who’ve watched the popular drama for years know, the Pearson family’s saga has often zoomed past its present-day storyline to give us peeks into the future.

The beloved NBC drama departs with one more round of laughter, tears, and heart.

In this final hour, This Is Us settles on a simple thesis: We keep living on after we die, if not literally in some kind of afterlife then at least in the people we love and the people they go on to love as well. This Is Us is hands-down my favorite show I’ve ever gotten to write about, and one that’s as close to my heart as any TV series has ever been. And the same is true for This Is Us as well. As the peak TV bubble boomed over the past six years, This Is Us remained an earnestly old-fashioned beacon; a holdover from a time when network TV dominated the culture conversation. While some twist-heavy stories feel hollow when you revisit them, the most impressive thing about This Is Us is that each new addition to its story has only made the stuff that came before it richer. While the reveal that Randall is considering running for president made me laugh out loud (never change, This Is Us), the idea that he, Kevin, and Kate will always see their childhood nuclear unit as their core family is an apt sentiment to end the series on. In fact, there’s a part of me that wishes this entire episode had just been set on that lazy 1990s Saturday as that’s where “Us” is at its most lived-in. After last week’s inventive, emotionally harrowing goodbye to Rebecca, “Us” is a gentle denouement for the series—one last hug for the road. It helps that this finale has one last trick up its sleeve: After a season spent avoiding the era where Lonnie Chavis, Parker Bates, and Mackenzie Hancsicsak played the Big Three, those actors make their glorious return here. And if any show has earned the right to a sentimental victory lap, it’s this one. And while last week’s penultimate hour emphasized the latter, this episode embraces the former. I didn’t expect to spend the This Is Us series finale smiling more than crying.

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When we meet him, he’s in the middle of a potential threesome at a Hollywood party, but instead of taking off his clothes, he goes on and on about how unfulfilled he is in life. … But when the timing is right, he’s going to be so great.” The tension comes to a head in the final season. That’s a theme with Kevin. The man is in search of something but doesn’t quite know what it is. But the real bow around their family’s love story comes courtesy of their eldest daughter Deja, who is expecting her first child with Malik, the boy she fell in love with in high school. The two are on the floor of her bathroom where Kate fell after trying to weigh herself, which leads her to a support group for overweight people and a man named Toby (Chris Sullivan). (There’s also an annoyingly thin woman who appears in the credits as “not-really-fat rich girl.”) Despite telling Toby that she doesn’t want to date a man of his size because she wants to focus, Kate is obviously smitten. William, a recovering drug addict who is dying, eventually lives out his final months with Beth, Randall and their girls, Tess and Annie. After William dies, Beth and Randall buy the decrepit building he used to live in and adopt a teenager, Deja, who shares a special father-daughter bond with Randall. One of the triplets is stillborn and that tragedy leads the Pearsons to take home another baby, later named Randall, who had been abandoned at a fire station that very day. Though Rebecca sees Miguel when she transitions to the afterlife, it is Jack who is there waiting for her at the end. In the end, this is a show about love, how we show up for one another and, most important, the ripple effect of our major decisions. In the future, it’s Rebecca’s funeral and the Big Three — Randall, Beth and Kevin — say a final goodbye to the family’s near-mythical matriarch after she battled Alzheimer’s disease for years. Taking in the sum of our experiences.

The Pearson family dealt with the loss of Rebecca on the “This Is Us” series finale, which also explored the importance of soaking up small moments with ...

"There's always going to be another part of the story, if you continue to go further, which is the whole theme of our show," he said. And I wanted to visually capture that," he said. Kevin planned to focus on his nonprofit and be home more. He said, “I love you,” and, even though their marriage didn’t work out, he’d still go back in time to the weight loss support group and make stupid faces at her. At a very young age, she gets it,” Jack told them, adding how when you’re young you always want to be older, but when you’re old, you always want to go back. “The good thing about not caring about anything is that you don’t care when it’s gone. We’re going to live fearlessly,” Kate said. He said she was good at finding the right thing to say. After the funeral, Randall’s kids checked in on him. In the past, Jack and Rebecca were excited to have a totally free Saturday with no commitments to spend with their children, who were about 13, after learning Randall's mathletes competition was called off. Randall, meanwhile, came clean about his mathletes competition, saying he was suspended from the team for a week after he acted out when another boy teased him about having hair on his upper lip. But we spend the rest of our lives looking back, trying to remember them.

The finale aired at 9 p.m. on NBC to a whopping 1.2 rating in the key 18-49 demographic and 6 million total viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen numbers.

CBS was next in line at 9 p.m. with a 0.7 demo rating and 5.1 million total viewers for “FBI: International.” Across all of primetime, NBC averaged a 0.7 demo rating, while CBS had a 0.4. Fox and ABC tied with a 0.3, and the CW took a 0.0. In terms of average total viewers, CBS was still first with 5.2 million, despite its last-minute primetime shakeup. Audiences said goodbye to the Pearson family Tuesday night, as the series finale of “This Is Us” brought their story to a close. The “FBI” franchise also wrapped its current seasons. NBC was second with 3.9 million, ABC was third with 2.1 million, Fox was fourth with 1.7 million, and the CW was sixth with 369,000 viewers. The finale aired at 9 p.m. on NBC to a whopping 1.2 rating in the key 18-49 demographic and 6 million total viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen numbers.

To make 'This Is Us's final moments even sweeter, the NBC series finale undeniably ruled primetime ratings.

While This Is Us was the headline event for NBC, the network also bid farewell to Young Rock and New Amsterdam. In the preceding hour, Young Rock had a two-episode sendoff (avg. rating 0.4, 2.26M) that was up from the previous week in both measures. At 10 p.m., New Amsterdam (0.5, 3.49M) got a nice boost from This Is Us to win its hour. Six seasons, multiple changes in the television landscape and a pandemic later, This Is Us remained a ratings juggernaut for NBC. Read how the network wrapped up the family drama and what creator Dan Fogelman had to say about potential spinoffs. The emotional and time-skipping saga of NBC’s This Is Us concluded after six seasons on Tuesday evening. The series finale, simply titled “Us,” delivered an impressive 1.2 rating in the 18-49 demo and more than 6 million viewers. Only building on the previous weeks’ traction, This Is Us went out with a bang with its ratings besting that of its season premiere in January (1.0, 5.26M). The final episode also topped the Season 5 finale by four-tenths in the demo and nearly one million viewers.

The "This Is Us" finale aired Tuesday on NBC and put up solid ratings for the broadcast network.

It should be noted that last night’s runner-up CBS shook up its primetime last minute when the network decided to pull the Season 4 finale of “FBI” from its schedule, following a shooting at a Texas elementary school that saw over a dozen children killed on Tuesday. The episode has been pulled due to the fact that the storyline concerned a school shooting. The series finale of “This Is Us” led NBC to best its English-language broadcast competition for Tuesday primetime ratings. The series finale of “ This Is Us” averaged a 1.2 rating among adults 18-49 and 6 million total viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen data. Now, the Season 6 premiere is officially the second-highest-rated episode of the season, and the penultimate episode is the third-highest-rated. NBC averaged a 0.7 rating ahead of CBS with a 0.4, Fox and ABC each with a 0.3, and the CW with a 0.0. In total viewers, CBS was first with 5.2 million, NBC was second with 3.9 million, ABC was third with 2.1 million, Fox was fourth with 1.7 million, and the CW was sixth with 369,000 viewers. Last week, the penultimate episode of the Dan Fogelman-created family drama received a 0.95 rating in the advertiser-coveted adults 18-49 demographic and 5.3 million viewers, according to time-zone adjusted Live + Same Day ratings from Nielsen. At that time, those results made it the second-highest rated and second-most watched episode of the sixth and final season of “This Is Us.” The top episode in both categories had previously been the Jan. 4 Season 6 premiere, which got a 1.05 and 5.5 million viewers.

The Dan Fogelman-created series went out on a high note.

The series finale also made the evening a ratings winner for NBC as it led the English-language broadcast competition. Following the finale the current ranking stands with the finale taking top honors, the premiere coming in at number two on the ratings list, and the penultimate episode placing third. The installment which aired on January 4 of this year got a 1.05 rating and garnered a total of 5.5 million viewers.

'It's been the trip of a lifetime,' says Dan Fogelman.

— Sterling K Brown (@SterlingKBrown)May 25, 2022 When we met these characters their lives were already well under way. — Sterling K Brown (@SterlingKBrown)May 25, 2022 — Dan Fogelman (@Dan_Fogelman)May 25, 2022 I’m asking you to be fearless.” – Rebecca Pearson #ThisIsUs pic.twitter.com/hlQ43UqR8F I’m asking you to be fearless.’ – Rebecca Pearson.” — Sterling K Brown (@SterlingKBrown)May 25, 2022 To my brother and sister, @justinhartley& @ChrissyMetzI love you guys so damn much! Brown also tweeted his love to his co-stars Chrissy Metz and Justin Hartley, writing, “I love you guys so damn much! “Thank you, thank you, from the bottom of our sweet R&B hearts for being on this journey with us and sharing yours in the process. — Dan Fogelman (@Dan_Fogelman)May 24, 2022 Before and during the final episode, the show’s creator, Dan Fogelman, and many of its stars shared farewell messages on social media.

Six years ago today, the trailer for then-new NBC drama series This Is Us was blowing up, breaking records with about 80 million views in 12 days.

The camera took turns on each of the Big Three, with Randall looking at Deja who had her hand on her belly. That last scene was notable for the fact that it was the furthest in the future the show has ever gotten. It’s the little things I’m not ready to let go of yet,” listing playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey on a Saturday as one of those little moments she fears forgetting. The finale opened with young Jack and Rebecca waking up in bed at their house in a setup that mirrored the caboose scene down to Jack’s mustache. Besides Rebecca’s death, another thread that connects the two episodes is the dream sequence with young Rebecca and Jack in the caboose car of the train Rebecca found herself on last week. The closer was set in the immediate aftermath of the penultimate episode, “The Train,” as the Pearsons gathered for Rebecca’s funeral.