‘This Is Us’: 9 Burning Questions for Season 3

Meanwhile, Randall and Beth struggled to make Deja comfortable among their family. “I’ve gotta make room for Toby“, she told his urn before dumping his remaining ashes at a tree the two of them shared near the cabin. Below, the nine most important.

Cut to a series of flash-forwards featuring Kevin and his new girlfriend, Zoe (!), traveling to where Jack was stationed in Vietnam, Kate suggesting bedridden Toby make a doctor’s appointment and an older Randall telling grown-up Tess it’s time to “go see her”. “It’s time to go see her, Tess”, Randall says to his eldest daughter.

“I think what’s so cool about this show is that the adults were introduced at their 36th birthday, so there’s a whole time gap between when we come, when we’re supposed to be about 15-17, to 36 years old”, she said. Who the heck could “her” be?

-There’s a shot of Deja (Lyric Ross) smashing the windshield of Randall’s Mercedes with what looks to be Jack’s baseball bat.

“I can not answer that, but I will say that we’ll definitely be revisiting that time period throughout our next season, and it will be revealed in Season 3”, she told Entertainment Weekly. Specifically: Future Beth seems to be in danger, and the issue of what, exactly, will happen to her might replace “how did Jack die?” as the central question driving the series. His subconscious might even pick some obvious choices for his family’s future. like Miguel (Jon Huertas) marrying his wife, Rebecca (Mandy Moore). Who else is alive in the future? Part of her challenge is balancing being there for Toby but also for herself, and that’s something that we all have to deal with. Could Toby’s recurring depression be related to his parents?

Kevin may have been talking to his siblings and mother, but he was also speaking to all of us; the fans who made “This Is Us” a juggernaut hit. What happened in those intervening months that brought Toby to this point? What if it blows in the wind and it gets in someone’s face?’ And I’m like, ‘I know it’s not real, ‘ but these are things that you think about – or you try not to think about. Does that mean this relationship is going to last? “It’s important that we do that, that we just let go of those things we’ve been holding onto”. It took all of our breaths away in a way that we didn’t expect. Those ice cream trips have been a particularly dominant memory all season for Kate, so it’s quietly devastating when she learns the place has changed hands, and that Jack’s favorite flavor, banana pudding, is no more. So far, only a young version of the character has been cast. It came in the form of Jack’s old screwdriver strategically placed in the middle of her bouquet.

“We did do that”, Metz said of the scene. “It just felt like the possibilities there were really fun and endless”, Berger told THR after the season two finale. Toby will never be able to replace Jack in Kate’s heart, but he’s damned well deserving of his own full-sized space there. Deja has understandably been acting out after her mother abandoned her at the Pearson household.

Needless to say, tensions within the This Is Us fandom are extremely high right now, with many playing “Worst Case Scenario” themselves, wondering if – like Randall and Beth once mentioned – Deja killed her. At the end of the season two finale, she took a baseball bat, Lemonade-style, to Randall’s beloved vehicle.