This Is Us finale

The heartwarming series stars Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley, and others. The series follows a family of two ...

Like all seasons before it, This Is Us season 6 will consist of 18 episodes. Is tonight’s episode, May 17, the last episode of This Is Us season 6? When is the season 6 finale?

Next week, we are set to arrive at This Is Us season 6 episode 18 -- and yes, that is a terrifying thing to think about.

How do you think the series finale is going to end? We personally think that it will be an inspirational story about the Big Three applying all the lessons learned from Rebecca over the years, but will that really prove to be the case? Next week, we are set to arrive at This Is Us season 6 episode 18 — and yes, that is a terrifying thing to think about.

'This Is Us': Rebecca dies in Season 6, Episode 17, 'The Train.' Read a recap.

And via flashbacks, we see that Marcus and his family were at the hospital the same night as the Pearsons’ house fire, and that Marcus’ father had a conversation with Jack while both were grabbing some coffee in the waiting room! Then Toby, who of COURSE can’t do it without getting in a joke (“Rebecca, you can tell me: You love me more than Philip, right?”) Annie goes in, too, and thanks her grandmother for telling her that it was OK to be small, as long as she knew she could be as big as she wanted to be. He asks if she wants a limoncello, “or is that too on the nose?” She smiles, nodding at the bowl of citrus fruit on the bar, and says, “Hey, if life gives you lemons.” But he winds up making her a vesper, the fancy drink her father always said he’d have if he took her on a trip like this. As she cries, she asks them to tell Rebecca that she loves her, and she’s on her way. Both Randall and Kev assure her that Rebecca wouldn’t have wanted her to skip the trip. (Side note: Very creative way to get so much of the cast in this episode, This Is Us!) But as pleased as Rebecca is with the tableau, something’s still not right: “Kate’s not here.” But then William reminds her that the train is moving fast, and they have to keep going, so they move into the bar car… “You’re going to be a grandfather.” She starts to list her worries — she and the baby’s father aren’t married yet, he works all the time, she just started her residency — but the joy in Randall’s eyes can’t be dimmed. Déja sees her dad sitting alone in the living room and decides to give him some good news, provided he can be “totally cool” and keep it to himself for now. She asks him to sit, and to remind her of the poem that gave her the idea for Randall’s name. Philip, Hailey and Jack arrive, but without Kate; Philip tells everyone that his wife was able to get a seat on a plane home from London, and she’s scheduled to be there in the morning. When a man approaches, she says “I’m waiting for someone” without tearing her gaze from the window…

SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the May 17 episode of This Is Us, "The Train." It was played Monday night at the Landmark Theater as part of ...

“While it will make you cry, it will make you sad, the end of the finale moves me in a way that is different. The show intentionally resolved all major mysteries ahead of time “so people can sit with the family in the final episode in the simplest of way,” Fogelman said. In the first part of his video interview (you can watch it above), Fogelman speaks about filming that final scene, which required a reshoot, as well as the entire emotional episode. He was honored for his contributions to finding cure for Alzheimer’s, with the man who handed him the award played by The Is Us director/EP Ken Olin, who helmed “The Train”. The dad Kenny, played by Dulé Hill, lost control of the family car and one of the sons, Marcus, was taken to the hospital in critical condition. She was guided through the cars by William and spent time with the train’s bartender, who was none other than Dr. K who was making literal lemonade out of lemons.

The episode employed the metaphor of a train — an idea that tracks back to the season 6 premiere — to reflect her passing on to the next realm. With Randall's ...

I was just daunted by the prospect of making sure that we captured it properly and that it was accurate. And the first take, I was like, "Oh no, no, no, no, I can't do this." And it was sort of haunting, because they shot me walking through in the background, with his belongings, walking to the car. How much did you and Dan talk about the need to balance the sadness with the sweet in this final run of episodes? And I wanted to make sure that we handled it respectfully and with dignity. I wrote Dan [Fogelman] immediately after finishing it and was just like, "I'm so honored that I get to be a part of this and to tell this story, and to end this story in this manner just is wow." It was a lot of fun to play back in this era, and to get to work with everybody in a way. My first day on the pilot was working with him and to footnote it together again, to bring him back in at the end was just beyond my wildest imagination. And then to tell her that she did an amazing job and she was an amazing mother — it was everything you could have hoped for. It is the most beautiful metaphor, and my goodness, if this is what really happens to us at the end — it doesn't seem all that bad, you know? Because we got to live in a world where Rebecca was at her most cognizant, I feel like she was at a chapter of her life where she maybe felt like she was firing on all cylinders. I don't know what all is going to be seen [on TV] — just the little bits and bobs from our life, the "Taboo" game was there, the growth chart from the kitchen in the Pearson house, there were just so many fun things for me to look at and be caught off guard by and really reacting to in the moment.

Rebecca and Jack are expecting triplets when Rebecca goes into labor on Jack's birthday. Kevin and Kate are twins reevaluating their lives as they turn 36. And ...

By the end of the episode and a particularly brutal needle drop, the audience and Kevin have both reevaluated a man we tended to overlook, mourning the loss of his quiet dedication. It was a sensitive and even-handed denouement for a couple we’d watched from the beginning and a charming introduction to the new love of Kate’s life, while also assuring us that both halves of Katoby would go on to live happier lives apart. The story of Kate and Toby’s ultimately irreconcilable differences moved forward chronologically, while Kate’s new courtship and engagement to Phillip (Chris Geere) moved backwards, until both met up first at the day the divorce papers were signed. The day of Kevin’s wedding to Madison (Caitlin Thompson), Kate’s best friend and the mother of Kevin’s twins, we get multiple moments of catharsis. This episode gives us two excellent Big Three-centric storylines: the young Big Three begrudgingly obliging Jack in making a time capsule to open when they’re 18 (which we know Jack won’t live to see) and the grown Big Three meeting after a very difficult week for each of them. There were still more mysteries about this time period to solve — Where are Kate and Miguel (Jon Huertas)? Why is Toby (Chris Sullivan) reluctant to come? This time, it’s Deja (Lyric Ross), Randall and Beth’s foster (and eventually adopted) daughter. Using a spin on the you-think-it’s-now-but-it’s-not trick from the pilot, the episode reveals that the unnamed social worker is in fact Tess (Iantha Richardson), Randall’s daughter, now all grown up and meeting a graying Randall for their weekly dinner. Another character-specific episode, this one focuses on fan-favorite Beth. We learn about her lifelong passion for dance and her own tragic loss of a father, both of which she's kept quiet as the other Pearsons deal with their big dreams and big grief. This episode was the first entry in the first “Big Three Trilogy” — seasonal sets of three episodes that focus on each sibling in turn. It’s an elegiac tribute to a complicated and beloved man and the son he too-recently found, and one of the show’s most successful forays into the backstory of a supporting character. The pilot managed to pull off two major feats: introducing us to all five of the major characters in three distinct plotlines and also serving up a major time-based twist.

Spoiler Alert. Ron Batzdorff/NBC. [Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Season 6, Episode 17 of This Is Us, “The Train.

Looking at a bowl of lemons on the counter, Dr. K offers to make her a limoncello, but Rebecca requests a vesper, a cocktail her dad used to enjoy. We’ll never know, but it goes to show, that you can never see the full picture until you take a step back. When she asks about the poem that she used as inspiration for Randall’s name, Rebecca asks William to recite it. Taking a moment to breathe, Marcus’ father (played by Dulé Hill) goes to find coffee where he bumps into a sooty Jack. They get to talking and Jack brings up how his house burned down earlier that night, he then asks the man how he’s doing. As they walk down the cars, Rebecca passes a younger version of herself sitting opposite of her father like the occasions when they rode trains together in her youth. He also jokes that she loved him more than Philip. Out in the living room, Deja texts her boyfriend to tell him that she’s pregnant, sharing the news that up until now she’d been withholding. Much of the episode is split into two realities, the one that the Pearson family is experiencing and the other that Rebecca is experiencing as she nears death. He tells her he’s loved her since they were sixteen and shares that he’s thrilled she’s pregnant and he looks forward to getting married. In retaliation for Beth not sharing what she said to Rebecca, Randall teases that he has a secret, but he’s a little premature in gloating. Meanwhile, out in the living area, Kevin and Randall chat with Kate over FaceTime and she regrets having taken a trip abroad for work, but her brothers reassure that their mother wouldn’t want it any other way. She tells her dad that there are no rules, and takes the opportunity to tell him that she’s pregnant forcing him to keep his reactions contained. Randall wrestles with what he wants to say, hoping he can let her know that it’s okay to leave, but doing so in a way that won’t scare Rebecca.

This Is Us concludes its final season on May 24. See pictures of the cast, including Sterling K. Brown, Mandy Moore, and Justin Hartley, hanging out here.

The cast of "This Is Us" may be saying their goodbyes already, but we're not ready to part ways with the Pearsons just yet. I will miss these wonderful actors, these wonderful writers, and the best crew on television. Whether they're goofing off on set, posing together on the red carpet, or snapping sweet selfies when the cameras aren't rolling, this cast never misses a chance to show their love for one another.

Tonight on This Is Us season 6 episode 17, we saw goodbye to Rebecca Pearson. We know that this wasn't an easy thing to watch.

Will we be seeing more of the two of them in the series finale? Once you do just that, be sure to SUBSCRIBE to Matt & Jess on YouTube. We will have coverage of the series finale and a whole lot more. It was the end of the line for her, and it made perfect sense for him to be waiting.

Mandy Moore opens up about the scene in This Is Us' second-to-last episode that made her vomit when she ready the script.

Now that we’ve seen the episode, the actress revealed what it was that affected her to the point that she threw up. Mandy Moore told EW what it was about the episode really struck a chord: This Is Us fans, we’ve made it through the inevitable milestone that the series has been leading us to for years.

It seems like forever ago that Kevin was an insecure actor dating every flavor of the month, Randall an anxious executive, and Kate living a life in limbo. But ...

“This is a really beautiful way to end this story.” Warning: Spoilers for This Is Us Season 6, Episode 17 follow. But with the last episode of Season 6 looming, the This Is Us series finale promo promises to wrap up the incredible story covering 100 years of one American family.

Mandy Moore said This Is Us fans shouldn't expect 'things to be tied up perfectly in a bow with every single character and every single story' in the series ...

"Finishing the way we started," she wrote on Instagram, sharing a pic of the pair hugging. "I haven't begun to process the end of this journey quite yet and I'm sure it will take me time," she continued. "I just remember closing it going, 'You stuck the landing, Dan. You really did. "I cried just because it was the end. She recently posted a photo with Ventimiglia, 44, after wrapping their final scene together. She even recalled her initial reaction to reading through the last episode's script.

Mandy Moore teased This Is Us' series finale, which series creator Dan Fogelman describes as "very different" from the penultimate episode.

"While it will make you cry, it will make you sad, the end of the finale moves me in a way that is different," he said. "People think they're going to announce the Avengers of This Is Us, like 12 different TV series about side characters," he joked. "People waiting for things to be tied up perfectly in a bow with every single character and every single story need to abandon that idea," she explained to Entertainment Weekly, "because that's not the reality of life anyway."

early on. How Jack dies and the big episode where, in fact, he does die. But so much of our series is about what happens after. And I always wanted and always ...

And I always wanted and always had planned for the final episode of the series to revolve around the epilogue of the continuing story of the family rather than the moment,” he continued. And so that isn’t just about the moment of loss, it’s about which comes after.” “To me, the show has been about many things and a lot of people can lock on to different elements of the show.

Mandy Moore teased This Is Us' series finale, which series creator Dan Fogelman describes as "very different" from the penultimate episode.

"While it will make you cry, it will make you sad, the end of the finale moves me in a way that is different," he said. "People think they're going to announce the Avengers of This Is Us, like 12 different TV series about side characters," he joked. In the second to last episode of the series, Mandy Moore's character, Rebecca Pearson, dies surrounded by her family.

Creator Dan Fogelman quotes Rebecca (Mandy Moore) in the 'This Is Us' finale. Find out how Rebecca sums up the entire series.

Fogelman also revealed he shot much of the This Is Us finale four years ago. “I think the perspective, and that’s a lot of what the final episode is. “That’s a line in the final episode: I wish I had enjoyed it all more while it was happening instead of worrying when it would end,” Fogelman said. Fogelman explained there’s a bit more in the This Is Us finale. You’re tired and the perspective only comes later and you say what Mandy will say in the final episode, ‘I wish I had enjoyed it all more while it was all happening.’” The episode This Is Us fans have been both dreading and waiting for is almost here.

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“I think the simplicity of what’s in store for people in parts of this episode are what the whole series is really about,” Moore told EW. “People waiting for things to be tied up perfectly in a bow with every single character and every single story need to abandon that idea because that’s not the reality of life anyway. In the first, we listened to the Pearsons share their memories of Rebecca, and got to see a few of their goodbyes, including Beth confiding in her mother-in-law that she has always been her parenting role model. Where these three are going and the tools that they have to help them navigate throughout all for the trials and tribulations that might come their way.” In a lot of ways, the penultimate episode of This Is Us felt like it served as a sort of series finale, with Pearson matriarch Rebecca taking her last breaths at the end of a full and meaningful life. Speaking to People, creator Dan Fogelman said, “I feel we’ve answered [the big] questions now, and we can live in the simple experience of being a family with this family. “If you step back,” William says in his moving final speech to Rebecca from the penultimate episode, “you’ll see that the end is not sad. “I’m not worried about forgetting about the big stuff,” an older but still lucid Rebecca says, as the promo cuts to brief clips of her spending time with her children throughout the years. It opens with an idyllic scene of Jack ( Milo Ventimiglia) and Rebecca ( Mandy Moore) pushing the elementary-aged Big Three on a swing set, before cutting to the couple having a heart to heart while lying in bed. We then see a shot of the house fire and the Big Three sharing a park bench in Season 2, while Kevin was in rehab. “You have changed the way I think about love,” Jack tells Rebecca as we flash back to their wedding day. Here’s what we have to look forward to in the This Is Us series finale. The extended promo for “Us” plays its cards close to the vest, consisting mostly of callbacks to previous episodes of the series, although we do get a few glimpses of what to expect in the final episode.

The next seven days also bring the premieres of Angelyne on Peacock and a few Fox summer shows, as well as a documentary about comedy icon George Carlin on HBO.

Peacock’s limited series about her — based on a THR feature — delves into the story behind the persona. There are also a host of season finales on the broadcast nets. On Monday, the network will debut a new version of musical game show Don’t Forget the Lyrics and season five of Beat Shazam. New:George Carlin’s American Dream makes the case that the legendary comedian would still be a vital voice if he were alive today, even while it shows that a lot of his material is still extremely relevant. Also: HBO Max’s Legendary begins its third season Thursday. Netflix’s The G Word With Adam Conover (Thursday) is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground and delves into the unsung work done by federal employees. This Is Us has been a sustained hit for NBC over its six seasons, and it’s going out the way it came in, as one of network TV’s higher-rated dramas. “I found, and find, her fascinating,” Rossum told THR. The limited series premieres Thursday on Peacock. It would be next to impossible to watch everything, but let THR point the way to worthy options for the coming week. Some two dozen broadcast shows end their seasons in the coming week — one of which, NBC’s This Is Us, will have its series finale after six tear-jerking seasons. Below is The Hollywood Reporter‘s rundown of premieres, returns and specials for May 18-24. In order of airdate, they are: ABC’s full Wednesday lineup of The Goldbergs (8 p.m.), The Wonder Years (8:30 p.m.), The Conners (9 p.m.), Home Economics (9:30 p.m.) and A Million Little Things (10 p.m.); Beyond the Edge (9 p.m. Wednesday, CBS); Station 19 (8 p.m. Thursday, ABC); Young Sheldon (8 p.m. Thursday, CBS); all three Law & Orders (starting at 8 p.m. Thursday, NBC); United States of Al (8:30 p.m. Thursday, CBS); Big Sky (10 p.m. Thursday, ABC); NCIS: Los Angeles and SWAT (9 and 10 p.m. Sunday, CBS); CBS’ Monday lineup of The Neighborhood (8 p.m.), Bob Hearts Abishola (8:30 p.m.), NCIS (9 p.m.) and NCIS: Hawai’i (10 p.m.); Young Rock (8 p.m. Tuesday, NBC); CBS’ three FBI shows (starting at 8 p.m. Tuesday); and New Amsterdam (10 p.m. Tuesday, NBC). The next seven days also bring the premieres of Angelyne on Peacock and a few Fox summer shows, as well as a documentary about comedy icon George Carlin on HBO.

Creator Dan Fogelman revealed that many scenes for the This Is Us series finale were filmed several years before they wrapped in May. “We'd shot a lot of it ...

“So much attention that was put on ‘ How does Jack die?’ early on. I’m really proud of it,” he explained on Monday, May 16, during a Q&A session in Los Angeles via Deadline. The end is near.

Six seasons, more than a hundred episodes and plenty of anticipatory grief led to an emotional hour of "This Is Us" on Tuesday.

"And you, my dear, have earned a rest." The Pearson children, their grandchildren and spouses all said goodbye to the woman who had shaped their lives in the final minutes of the episode -- Sterling K. Brown, Justin Hartley, Chrissy Metz, Susan Kelechi Watson, Jon Huertas, Chris Sullivan, Moore and even Milo Ventimiglia's character, Jack, who died in Season 2, shared touching moments. The creator of the Emmy-winning series, Dan Fogelman, took viewers on a literal train ride in which Pearson encounters the loves of her life, both living and dead, before crossing over into the afterlife.

'This Is Us' only continues to gain traction ahead of its series finale and the latest episode on Tuesday was no exception.

Coming second to This Is Us and earning the night’s largest audience was a stable FBI (0.5, 6.85M) on CBS. In the same hour, The Resident (0.3, 2.79M), which received a renewal from Fox, concluded its fifth season. The Fox medical drama pretty much matched its previous episode, and retained a good amount of its demo rating and audience from its season debut in February (0.4, 3.23M). The Resident tied with Young Rock (0.3, 1.81M) and the Mr. Mayor series finale (0.3, 1.53M), which ticked up one tenth in the demo. CBS’ Beyond The Edge closes off its freshman run, and The Masked Singer season finale ushers in a new chapter of So You Think You Can Dance. The CW shows new episodes of The Flash and Kung Fu. All the titles in that slot have been renewed for new seasons. The penultimate episode bid an emotional farewell to Mandy Moore’s Rebecca while setting up an optimistic future for The Big Three and the rest of the Pearson family. At 9 p.m., This Is Us bested steady episodes of FBI: International (0.5, 5.80M), The Chase (0.2, 2.14M) and Name That Tune (0.3, 1.39M).