


Rebecca has a big moment with her other son, too. Anyway, I’m crying over it and I hate myself for that. He looks moved and honored to do this for her and this feels very, very good for him! The four of them hold hands as Rebecca says she would marry any of them if that sort of thing were allowed, because moms love to make things weird and it honestly feels so on brand for this family. In fact, Rebecca has an idea to help Kevin keep busy - a request, really: She asks Kevin to build her the house next to the cabin that Jack had designed for her, the one he was going to build for her but that he never got the chance to take on. The wedding is off, and it leaves us with a lovely little scene between our core four Pearsons - have we gotten many scenes of just the four of them? It’s very good - in which they tell Kevin he’ll be okay and talk about what Jack would’ve done if he were here, which is mostly what they are doing: Not leaving Kevin’s side, making sure he doesn’t drink, and keeping him busy. He doesn’t want to call it, though - he believes their relationship can grow with time- but Madison doesn’t think this is how they should get married. He says some very nice things to her about how he loves the life they’re building and he loves their family and he thinks she is incredible, but he never brings himself to say that he is in love with her the way she is with him. So Madison goes to Kevin’s room, two hours before they are supposed to say “I do,” and asks him point blank if he is in love with her. All of these moments add up to a realization that Madison has lived her life being “grateful” for the “scraps of affection” people have given her and now, thanks to her relationship with Kevin, she knows she deserves more than that. She’s thinking about several defining moments in her life: the day her mother left and gave her earrings as a parting gift that time before an eighth-grade dance when her father told her to just go with whoever is willing to take her and not expect more from life (yikes, dude!) a breakup with a boyfriend who informs her that he doesn’t have the same feelings for her that she does for him and how she still, embarrassingly, wanted to stay with him. Meanwhile, Madison, who has clearly been thinking things over since examining that Newlywed Game video, is so checked out. It’s the day of the big event, and as the Pearsons gather at the hotel Kevin’s rented out, the groom is running around frantically trying to make this wedding perfect for Madison. That’s right: The wedding of the century never happens. (It’s a little weird, but also this is the Pearsons, so we’ll go with it.) But since the Jack-and-Rebecca fight starts when Rebecca realizes Jack has caused her to miss the Moldavian-wedding-massacre episode of Dynasty, all I could think was, Is someone going to die at Kevin’s wedding? It feels like something This Is Us would do, but thankfully things are only metaphorically killed! Things like Kevin and Madison’s relationship! We get a small story line back in 1985 that is really about the Pearsons having a family wedding in their living room to assure the tiny Big Three that Mom and Dad love each other after a fight.

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Honestly, kudos to This Is Us for not only finding a TV series from the ’80s with a wild wedding finale but one that has a wild wedding finale to close out its fifth season. Let’s get into the meat of it, okay?įirst stop: We have to talk about Dynasty. And friends, there are going to be a lot of major blanks to fill in. Instead, we can attempt to predict how the show is going to use its last 18 episodes to fill in the blanks between where we leave the Pearsons in the present day and the two major time jumps forward that we’ve now been privy to. Ugh, lord, I feel so alive! Maybe that’s more of a referendum on me than the show, but big! things! happened! just as we are about to embark on the final season of the Pearson saga! We all know this show can meander, but the finale was a whole lot of decisive plot capped off with a surprise ending that gave us just enough information so that we’re not spending our hiatus time wondering who it is that marries in five years. Don’t mind me, I’m just over here scooping my eyeballs back into my head because those last few minutes of the season five finale were wild (relative to This Is Us, obviously). Candace Cameron-Bure as D.J.Oh hello, This Is Us fam.After his wife is killed in a car accident, news anchorman Danny Tanner recruits his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis (a rock musician) and best friend Joey Gladstone (who works as a stand-up comedian) to help raise his three young daughters: D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle, in his San Francisco home.
