This Is Us finale

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 ...

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“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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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.

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.

Three adults siblings, dressed in black for a funeral, sit on the steps of. Justin Hartley as Kevin, left, Chrissy Metz as Kate and Sterling K. Brown as Randall ...

And I have no doubt that somebody is going to figure out the next version of it and make the next “Six Feet Under” or “Friday Night Lights” or “Parenthood” or this show. He said, “I always thought that the bonds made and memories made during childhood you’ll never be able to fully capture as an adult, because they don’t have the same innocence and nostalgia as the relationships and bonds and memories that are formed during childhood.” And he said the experience of working on this show felt like it challenged that notion and he will look back on this group of people in this moment in time, when we made this television show that really spoke to all of us who were making it, and he’ll remember it with the same kind of nostalgia he did memories of his childhood. There is a version of, “Oh, this whole series was this family retelling stories at Rebecca’s deathbed and at the funeral, and that’s why they’re all jumbled and out of order.” That’s not what the device literally was, but I think it had elements of that. But at the end of the day, if you had to pick one thing, it was about the loss of a parent — and, eventually, the loss of two parents. We wanted to get to this final episode and feel like when you’re reading a novel that you’ve really fallen into, often a family-sprawling novel that’s 400 pages, and you’ve been enjoying it and going with [a] family for generations and then you start feeling those pages getting thinner in the back, and you’re like, “Oh no, it’s getting close to the end,” and then you hit the word “Epilogue.” But then you close it, and it feels complete and rewarding and satisfying. [But] the first time I saw the ending of the finale, and basically the last 10 minutes — I’m not one to weep at the television show as much as people talk about that — it really got me. And what the final message of the show was going to be. When my mom passed away, I stayed up literally the entire night: “People are expecting me to write the perfect eulogy, and I need to be funny, I need to be good.” And then I very much had the experience of that day, the morning afterwards, just kind of floated by in this haze. And I was looking for a metaphor at the beginning of the season. While the show always had twists and turns and big, gigantic moments and deaths of beloved characters, I felt that the show should end in the simplicity of family and trying to say something about that. I always felt that this is the way I wanted the show to end. “I just have to open the lever on the way home and the way to work,” Metz said.

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.

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.

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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.

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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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“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.”