This Is Us Season 5 Finale

After building to a season finale centered around Kevin's wedding to Madison, the current timeline ends with Madison calling off the wedding after forcing Kevin to confront the fact that he is in love with the family they've created, but not with her. In the previous episode, Kevin overcame his doubts about Madison by heeding stepfather Miguel's advice that not every love story is an epic Hollywood tale. "Some love stories are written in the stars and other love stories are written together," he told the groom-to-be, comparing his marriage to Rebecca after the death of Jack to Kevin and Madison being brought together by her unexpected pregnancy. But Madison tells Kevin that she deserves to be marrying a man who is in love with her, and not just as the mother to his children. It's bittersweet, rather than tragic.There's strength and hope in Madison's decision to call off the wedding rather than settle for an approximation of love.

And that's the general tone this episode strikes across the board. This Is Us tends to save its most dramatic cliffhangers for its midseason finales, rather than its season-enders. And a lot of "The Adirondacks" is a fairly light, almost madcap comedy punctuated by moments of reconciliation. Beth and Tess break through their communication issues and share a lovely mother/daughter bonding moment as Beth helps Tess modify her wedding attire to fit her newfound style. And Rebecca begins the process of making amends to Randall for hiding William from him and never giving him space to discuss his feelings about his birth parents. This Is Us won't be returning for its sixth and final season until midseason next year, but with the storylines that have already been planted in the Season 5 finale, expect it to be an emotional ride.

And hopefully, like Justin Hartley wants, Kevin and Randall's relationship stays steady. The first five seasons of This Is Us are streaming on Hulu. Season 6 premieres sometime during midseason 2022 on NBC. The stars of This Is Us tease what can be expected from its final season. NBC's hit family drama is wrapping up its run with its sixth year, but despite this, expect a series of plot twists — something that the show has become known for throughout its broadcast.

The commentary from the cast in the aforementioned video is intercut with scenes from the past seasons of This Is Us and the montage mostly focuses on the Pearson characters. Rightfully so, the series is about the collective life of the family, starting with Jack and Rebecca's introduction and eventual marriage. Due to its unique storytelling format, it's able to connect things that happened in the past to what the Big Three are going through in the present time. Importantly, it allows the show to continue featuring Jack who has died back decades ago. So while the individual arcs of the kids are going to be significant, expect that This Is Us will continue to be the Pearsons' overall journey.

With the amount of dangling threads this finale opens up, I have no idea whatThis Is Us' final season is going to look like. We've now got three major flash-forward timelines to work towards, including a lot of teases in that five-year jump. In addition to Kate's wedding, we learn Kevin has fulfilled his dad's dream of launching Big Three Homes, Nicky has a wife, and Randall has been dubbed a "rising star" by a swanky New Yorker profile. I'm assuming next season will largely focus on those threads, and I'm wondering if it might be set across a longer period of time than the show's usual year-in-the-life mode. It's an effective twist because This Is Us has trained us to expect flash-forwards to either Rebecca's deathbed or Baby Jack's future in its finales.

Plus "The Adirondacks" makes a point of selling the wholesome, supportive nature of Kate and Toby's marriage, as they briefly try to "Gift Of The Magi" each other over his new job in San Francisco. In fact, one of my big complaints about this episode was going to be that it resolved Kate and Toby's marital issues way too easily after a season of deep communication issues. But, as is frequently the case, it turns out This Is Us has a longer, more unexpected endgame in mind. Sometime in the next few years, Kate and Toby's present day happiness gives way to a whole new relationship for her. Suddenly it makes a lot more sense why Toby seems so lonely in the Rebecca's deathbed timeline.

After getting pregnant during a one-night stand with Kevin, Madison gave birth to twins Frances and Nicholas (named after "Uncle Nicky"). Kevin then proposed to Madison, wanting to fully commit to his new family. Hours before the ceremony, Madison realized that Kevin didn't love her. He insisted that their love could grow, but the two realized they weren't on the same page and called off the wedding.

The season finale's flash-forward hinted Kevin and Madison could get back together. But if nothing else, they seemed to be on friendly terms in the scene, which takes place about five years in the future. The final season premiere of NBC's time-hopping family drama aired Tuesday, setting up fans of the show for one final emotional run with the Pearson family. Following the dramatic and emotional Season 5 finale of This Is Us, the NBC show is getting ready to say goodbye to the Pearson family. Justin Hartley, who portrays Kevin Pearson, revealed what storyline he hopes won't be revisited in the sixth and final season, and it's not hard to see why he'd rather move forward.

"Watching this heartfelt but also scattered finale, it's hard not to think about what this season of This Is Us might have been if the show hadn't decided to make the pandemic part of its storytelling," says Caroline Siede. The season 5 of the show left the arc of many characters hanging in air. In the episode, Madison calls off her wedding to Kevin because he was unable to assure her that he loved her. Another bummer was seeing Kate marrying to her boss Philip which eventually means that she and Toby may get a divorce in future.

In an interview with People, Dan Fogelman revealed that Chris Geere aka Philip will be a major part of the cast in season 6. Dan said that the decision to have this timeline, which is essentially four years into the future for Kate's second wedding, has been a part of their plan all along from go. Kevin's panic over wedding logistics belies a man panicked about his future, while brief flashbacks economically flesh out the low self-worth that has defined Madison's life so far. (And led her to that weight loss group way back in the show's pilot.) The scene where she finally calls off the wedding is brutal, but incredibly well-done. Though Kevin desperately fights to save his dream of a perfect nuclear family, he can't even bring himself to say he loves the woman he's about to marry.

Deep down, they both know it's better to cut their losses rather than go through with something they'll regret. The final scene of Tuesday's season finale jumped four years ahead to show Kate — gasp! Ever since the shocking time-jump finale of season three, a seed had been planted that Kate and Toby might split up in the future. That sad outcome for one of the couples at the heart of the show was confirmed in the final, time-jumping scene, as Kate is shown readying to marry a man that viewers barely know, her new boss Phillip . NBC revealed that This Is Us wouldn't return for its sixth and final season until midseason, which meant a 2022 premiere date. Even though this means a long hiatus, NBC said that the final season would be a "largely uninterrupted run." The final season will consist of 18 episodes.

We really love the actress we found to play the daughter, Adelaide as you said, and obviously we've really Blake, who plays Jack Jr. as a character. So our hope is to continue to make people invested in these future storylines by getting into the characters slowly, as we've done, so that by the time you're really landing in full stories with them, if we do, you feel that great investment. In terms of the balance between the future storylines and the past...We've parsed out the shape enough that we will never run out of the past flashbacks that inform the present. Milo will always be in the show, Young Rebecca and younger versions of the kids will always be in the show. But we do the plan is to kind of tilt into different timelines that go past our present day a little bit more as we move forward.

And more of that is coming, and not just in that deep, deep future where Jack Jr. lives. It's hard to believe that we're so close to the end of the smash-hit NBC drama starring Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz and Justin Hartley. In just 18 episodes, we'll all learn what's really going on in that famous flash-forward scene and what the future holds for the Big Three.

In an episode revealing more of Nicky's backstory, viewers learned he'd fallen in love with a woman named Sally as a teen. Before their romance could really begin, young Nicky backed out of a road trip they'd planned to California, thus ending their relationship. As an adult, he began looking for Sally online, and by the time Kate and Phillip's wedding day arrives, he has a wife.

But it's unclear if that wife is Sally or someone else. However, Nicky finally made it to California in the present day after Kevin named one of the twins after him – and a little help from Cassidy . Then at the end of season 5, Nicky searched for "Sally Brooks" online, seemingly indicating that he will try to find her in the sixth season. The fifth season finale also confirmed that Nicky has a wife by the time Kate marries Phillip. Finally, the last season will reveal the show's conclusion, which Fogelman has had planned for quite some time now. He told THR that he has thought of "images of scenes and lines of dialogue" that he eventually wants to bring to life.

Finally, a Season 5 guest star has been promoted to series regular to the final season — Chris Geere, who plays Kate's boss turned love interest Phillip . This brings us to where Season 5 left off and what to expect plot-wise in the final season. Over 5 million people tuned in to the Season 5 finale of "This Is Us" last week, according to Deadline. This does not include all those who eagerly watched the episode on Hulu when it was made available on the streaming platform the next day.

With a crazy twist ending at the end of the finale, as well as the popular series confirmed to be ending after Season 6, it's safe to say that fans have the Pearson family on their minds. It's obviously a challenging chapter for Rebecca, moving forward. We have a big storyline planned for Mandy in the next upcoming season in present day, as an older woman, and also her past timelines. Particularly, it's an opportunity for us when we land in St. Louis with her Miguel. So often they operate as a couple in service of the larger family.

When you see them together, it's because the entire family's there and has storylines. But here's an opportunity where we're going to be joining them in a location together, kind of, together, as they kind of undergo this that they didn't necessarily plan on trying. With both of them questioning the relationship, it's definitely hard to get excited about the wedding in the upcoming season finale. The stars of NBC's hit family drama This Is Us preview what to expect from the show's upcoming sixth season which will also be its final outing. The cliff-hanger in the last minutes of the final episode is lame beyond description. I should have gone with my gut and quit after season 4.

This Is Us Season 5 The first 3 seasons were solid, but from 4 onwards the quality of the writing just decreased. They traded believable characters and well thought out story lines for cringe worthy artificial drama. This is my favourite show of all times and I was so looking forward to watching the new Season to escape the current doom and gloom ....

Well, the opening episode has NO new storyline or development whatsoever and instead it is all about reminding us of the Pandemic and BLM issues in the most forced and tedious way. These are irrelevant to the continuation of the previous plots, they feel completely forced into the storyline and all is very poorly acted. Over the last 4 seasons none of the current affairs were written into the script because it is mostly time-independent with present day, flash-backs and flash-forwards all intertwined.

To top it all off my favourite character, Randall, has now become selfish, arrogant and wallowing in self-pity. I really really do hope the writers correct this trajectory as I can't bear to say bye to the Big Three. How does this guy go from being such a favourite in earlier seasons, to being so selfish, annoying and arrogant? Or was he this the whole time and the initial episodes were too superficial? His character is the most organic of the three; he is never shown as being quick-witted in flashbacks - even at college.

He is portrayed as very studious, anxious and a people pleaser. While these traits remain in adult life, his wit is one of his biggest throughlines; when did this appear? We've seen the characters get older, yet he is never cracking jokes, puns or making people laugh. In the time jump, Randall is shown being profiled by a magazine as a "Rising Star," uncle Nicky references a "wife" and Beth is a bridesmaid for Kate, along with Madison. When speaking about the new seeds that have been planted heading into the final season — which will capture the 41st year of life for the Big Three — Fogelman called out Brown and Moore in particular as other big storylines ahead.

Rebecca's Alzheimer's continued to progress throughout Season 5. She admitted to her kids that she didn't know how much time she had left, but wanted to make the most of her remaining days. To prevent Kevin from drinking to cope with his failed engagement, Rebecca asked him to build her the house Jack had designed for her before his untimely death.

Thanks to time jumps, viewers know that Rebecca will spend her final days in the house where Kevin lives with his children and still-unidentified wife in the future. The flash-forward to Kate's wedding showed Randall in a New Yorker profile dubbing him a "rising star," but it remains to be seen if that's due to his work in the political arena. Meanwhile, Beth had to close her dance studio amid the coronavirus pandemic, but the future timeline revealed that the setback won't end her dream for good.

We're definitely all going to take a long nap after this last season. But I think definitely those two periods are periods we're going to spend more time in. Obviously one was just established, but the other one has been used more for answers to questions, but we haven't lived there a lot. We'll be doing more of that in this upcoming season, which is always the plan, as opposed to having maybe three or four past story lines in one episode, we could wind up with episodes that have two or three or four future and present story lines. Elsewhere in the hour, Randall (Sterling K. Brown) and Rebecca experienced healing in their conversation about his perspective-shifting trip to New Orleans to learn about his birth mother. Rebecca asked Kate to build that modern house next to the family cabin as seen in the flash-forward.

Malik revealed to Deja that he got into Harvard, setting up another long-distance situation. Oh, and five years from now, Randall is a rising star getting national magazine attention. As mentioned, Rebecca started to repair her relationship with Randall in the season 5 finale. The Pearson matriarch also told the Big Three she wasn't sure how much time she had left. But before she dies, she hopes to spend her life with the ones she loves. After Toby lost his job, it became clear that he didn't want to become a stay-at-home dad.

Kate also started working at a music school, and she fell in love with it. Then in the finale, Toby received an opportunity to work for a startup in San Francisco three days a week, and Kate tried to resign from her position. But Kate's co-worker, Phillip , reminded her how good she was at her job. So Kate and Toby settled on a bicoastal relationship for half the week. Season 6 of "This Is Us," however, will be doing things a bit differently. NBC confirmed to TVLine that its final season will air "mid-season" — in other words, it'll premiere in early 2022, instead of September of 2021, without that mid-season hiatus.

The time-hopping drama, created by Dan Fogelman, focuses on the Pearson family, spanning multiple decades of their lives. The earlier timeline shows Rebecca and Jack Pearson as they raise their three children. The "present" timeline depicts those three children as adults — 36 at the start of the first season — with their own families, as they navigate their own adult lives, including the long-lasting effect of their father's death when they were teenagers. As the series has progressed, it's even showcased scenes from future timelines, going as far as to show the youngest generation as adults.

"We never set out to make a television series that was going to last 18 seasons, so we have a very direct plan. I have script pages I have written and I'm writing that really are deep, deep, deep into the future. We have a plan for what we're going to do, and I know what the plan is," he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2019. "This Is Us" fans have a whole new reason to cry — NBC announced Friday that the hit family drama will end after its upcoming sixth season. However, Dan did admit to EW that Kevin and Sophie's relationship doesn't feel "resolved" yet.

Alexandra Breckinridge revealed to Us Weekly that she "did do a scene where they did old makeup, but I don't think it made it to the show." It could still be possible that Sophie pops up in the final season. In the last few years, Alexandra hasn't been able to return to the show as easily because of Virgin River scheduling conflicts. The show boss revealed that the character, introduced in Tuesday's Season 4 finale and played by Josh Hamilton , will have increased significance in the family drama's forthcoming Season 5. It's easy to forget now, 70 episodes into the show, but these two brothers have only really gotten along, and had a real adult relationship for the two and a half, three seasons of the show.