Farewell, This Is Us: the sensational schmaltzfest we all needed

The Pearson family saga has been comfort TV at its cosiest, full of twists, cheesy lines and fabulous characters – and it even bowed out with its own ‘Sopranos fade-to-black’ momentWarning: this article contains spoilers.It’s over. After 106 episodes of emotional evisceration, This Is Us (Amazon Prime) has called time. And like Randall at his mother’s funeral, I want to find the right thing to say. Every week without fail, this heartstring-yanking family saga about the big three – the triplets Kate, Kevin and Randall Pearson – made millions weep, myself included. It has been a six-year emotional juggernaut, a guilty pleasure to watch while sobbing into the sofa. It was comfort TV at its cosiest: a winning combination of twists and misdirection that kept you hooked and blindsided, with fantastic, fleshed-out characters delivering endless hokey speeches (Randall, you are the king!). It may have been a shameless schmaltzfest, but how we needed the release of a show as huge, messy and delectable as life itself. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2022-05-26 12:40:10 UTC ]
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Farewell, This Is Us: the sensational schmaltzfest we all needed

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