This Is Us

Rebecca Pearson once had a difficult pregnancy with triplets. The resulting births occurred on the same day as her husband Jack Pearson's thirty-sixth birthday. The lives of Rebecca, Jack and their three offspring - Kevin, Kate and Randall - are presented at different points in time. The Rebecca and Jack stories generally take place during the early stage of their marriage, surrounding the birth of the three children or at different phases of the children's upbringing, which was not always smooth sailing for any of the five. Separate stories concerning Kevin, Kate and Randall are also presented in their adult years, each who has his or her own baggage resulting from that upbringing: Kevin who was generally the neglected one because he had no outward issues; Kate who has always had weight issues; Randall, the gifted one, being the visible outsider and being the "non-K" child. These stories may demonstrate the emotional ties that exist not only because of being family, but also because of four of them having the same birthday and some of them having always been together, meaning since conception.

Year

2016

Movie time

45 min

Directed by

N/A

Cast

Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown

8.6/10

IMDB

05E06 - Birth Mother

Randall and Beth are in New Orleans on Hai's invitation so that he can tell them about Randall's birth mother, Laurel. Almost immediately upon their arrival, Hai drops some big news on them before he settles into the story to the best of his knowledge as much of it is second hand from what Laurel told him. While Hai tells them the unabridged version about her growing up, the strain she had with her banker father, how the two of them met and fell in love, and how she made it to Pittsburgh where she met William, Randall wants the Reader's Digest version with the highlight of the difference between William's reality of believing her to have died right after Randall's birth and Hai's eventual story of Laurel having only recently passed. After getting the basic outline of his mother's entire life story, Randall feels the need both to connect with her and by association release the lifelong pain he has been carrying with him.

Date: 12 Jan 2021
IMDB id: tt13440628
IMDB rating: 9.0
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