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Grey’s Anatomy (ABC at 8) In the
two-hour season finale, the
hospital seeks blood donations;
Nick and Meredith team up to help
a patient; Winston tries to make
peace with his brother.
Top Chef (Bravo at 8) The final four
head to Tuscon to create dishes
inspired by the Sonoran Desert to
determine this season’s winner.
Welcome to Flatch (Fox at 9:01)
Kelly gets tangled up in a wellness
pyramid scheme while also being
put in charge of the family
Christmas celebration; Father Joe
helps Shrub out.
Bull (CBS at 10) Bull and his team
take on one last case that changes
their fate in the series finale of the
long-running drama.
SPECIAL
Road to the Bee (Ion at 8) In
anticipation of the National
Spelling Bee, which begins
Tuesday, a documentary narrated
by LeVar Burton about some of the
young contestants’ preparation.
MOVIE
Cheating for Your Life (Lifetime
Movie at 8) A star student wants to
know how some of her slacker
classmates got great SAT scores
and uncovers an underground
operation that puts her life in peril.
RETURNING
Accused: Guilty or Innocent?
(A&E at 9) Season 3.Alone (History Channel at 9)
Season 9.Kings of Pain (History Channel at
10:34) Season 2.Pokémon Master Journeys: The
Series (Netflix) The final part of
Season 2.Shaman King (Netflix) Season 4.
That Damn Michael Che (HBO
Max) Season 2.Tig n’ Seek (HBO Max) Season 4.
LATE NIGHT
Tonight Show/Fallon (NBC at
11:34) Machine Gun Kelly, Harry
Kane, Lainey Wilson.Late Show/Colbert (CBS at
11:35) Beto O’Rourke, Hugh Dancy.Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC at
11:35) Rose Byrne, Sebastián
Yatra.Late Late Show/Corden (CBS at
12:37) Terry Crews, June Diane
Raphael, Amos Lee.Late Night/Meyers (NBC at
12:37) Jon Hamm, Julio Torres, a
performance from the musical
“Six,” Ulf Mickael Wahlgren.— Hau Chu
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Look at Me: XXXTentacion (Hulu) A documentary about t he y oung Florida
rapper who gained notoriety b efore his fatal shooting in 2018.
in Alcoholic Anonymous. Then
there is Madison (Caitlin Thomp-
son), the aforementioned “not-re-
ally-fat rich girl.” Madison be-
comes Kate’s close friend, and lat-
er, after a one-night stand with
Kevin, the pair become parents of
twins. Their relationship makes it
all the way to their wedding day
before Madison realizes that Kevin
isn’t in love with her.
Because all roads led back to
Sophie (Alexandra Breckenridge),
the girl Kevin fell in love with in
elementary school. They got mar-
ried in college and then divorced
after Kevin cheated on her with a
girl from his acting class in L.A.
They reconnect briefly years later,
and then break up again. In fact,
Kevin showed up at Sophie’s
mom’s funeral but, after finding
out she was engaged, left and slept
with Madison (hello, twins).
Through all that drama, Kevin
struggles with addiction, his act-
ing career and his relationship
with his family. It isn’t until he
comes out on the other side of a
lifelong battle with maturity that a
newly divorced Sophie shows up
again — this time at Kate’s wed-
ding to Phillip — and Kevin is
ready.
It’s Rebecca who ties it all to-
gether for the two. She encounters
Sophie at the wedding and, in a
fragile stage of her Alzheimer’s,
offers some advice for the Sophie
of 20 years before: “The timing is
just off right now. He isn’t ready for
you. He will be, but it’s going to
take a while.... But when the
timing is right, he’s going to be so
great.”
In the end, Kevin does turn out
pretty great. He and Sophie get
married and move to the cabin to
take care of Rebecca in her final
decade.BY HELENA ANDREWS-DYERNote: This article contains
spoilers for the entirety of “This
Is Us,” including Tuesday’s se-
ries finale.
After six seasons of dizzying
twists and stomach-churning
drops, the emotional roller coast-
er of “This Is Us” pulled quietly
back into the station in its series
finale. The screams, the tears, the
hysterical laughter all died lov-
ingly down as the tangled loops of
dozens of lives smoothed out for
the home stretch. And there wait-
ing on the proverbial platform
was Jack. Home will always be
Jack.
Following the tried-and-true
“This Is Us” formula, the last epi-
sode weaves together the present
and the past. In the future, it’s
Rebecca’s funeral and the Big
Three — Randall, Beth and Kevin
— say a final goodbye to the fam-
ily’s near-
mythical matriarch after she bat-
tled Alzheimer’s disease for years.
But the tears don’t come in tidal
waves. This farewell is reflective.
Randall, the show’s crier in chief,
struggles with the very meaning
of life.
“It just all feels so pointless,”
Randall tells his eldest daughter,
Deja.
Back in the past, Jack has an
explanation for his son. It’s the
’90s, and the Pearsons have a rare
lazy Saturday. The preteen Big
Three approach the day with
varying degrees of excitement:
Kate wants to watch old home
videos and just be together; Ran-
dall and Kevin are restless.
“That’s what we’re doing, just
collecting these little moments,”
Jack tells them. “We don’t recog-
nize them when we’re in them
because we’re too busy looking
forward. But then we spend the
rest of our lives looking back try-
ing to remember them, trying to
be back inside them.”
Taking in the sum of our experi-
ences. That’s the sweet spot of
“This Is Us” — and what makes
the show both cathartic and com-
forting.
“It forces you to think about
why we show up in the world the
way we do,” explained filmmaker
Codie Elaine Oliver, whose OWN
series “Black Love” has featured
“This Is Us” actor Sterling K.
Brown.
In the end, this is a show about
love, how we show up for one
another and, most important, the
ripple effect of our major deci-
sions. It would be nearly impossi-
ble to map out all that the Pear-
sons have gone through. But
here’s how their stories began in
the pilot episode in 2016, and
where they ended Tuesday night.Rebecca and Jack
The show opens and closes
with these two. In the very first
scene, Rebecca (Mandy Moore) is
heavily pregnant with triplets on
Jack’s (Milo Ventimiglia) 36th
birthday, and her water breaks.
While she is in the throes of a
difficult labor, Jack tells their con-
cerned doctor, the godlike Dr. K,
“We’re walking out of this hospital
with three healthy babies and one
healthy wife.” That happens, but
not in the way they’d planned.
One of the triplets is stillborn, and
that tragedy leads the Pearsons to
take home another baby, later
named Randall, who had been
abandoned at a fire station that
very day.
Jack and Rebecca’s love story —
even after Jack’s sudden death in
Season 2 — is the beating heart of
the show. Together they weather
Jack’s alcoholism, Rebecca’s brief
stint as a lounge singer, and rais-
ing a Black son, a disaffected
daughter and a self-absorbed
jock. After Jack dies in his early
50s, Rebecca eventually falls for
his best friend and later hers,
Miguel. The unlikely pair spend
their golden years together, and
when she slowly slips away,
Miguel becomes Rebecca’s devot-
ed caregiver until his own death.
Though Rebecca sees Miguel
when she transitions to the after-
life, it is Jack who is there waiting
for her at the end.
“Hey, babe, we did good,” he
tells her as they head to the next
adventure together. “You did so
good.”Randall and Beth
When we first meet Randall
(Brown) and Beth (Susan Kelechi
Watson), they are already an insti-
tution. Much like Rebecca and
Jack, they are a pair with an easy
intimacy — a power-couple arche-
type in line with the Cosbys or the
Obamas. Randall is a hotshot cor-
porate suit complete with a glass
office and luxury car. Beth is the
better half who takes no crap. “Oh
my God, baby, you’re cracking up,”
Beth tells Randall after he invites
William (Ron Cephas Jones), his
biological father, to their subur-
ban dream home in the pilot.
William, a recovering drug addict
who is dying, eventually lives out
his final months with Beth, Ran-
dall and their girls, Tess and An-
nie. After William dies, Beth andTears, laughter, it all had
a season on ‘This Is Us’
Randall buy the decrepit building
he used to live in and adopt a
teenager, Deja, who shares a spe-
cial father-daughter bond with
Randall.
For a while, it seems as if Beth
and Randall, who met in college,
can do practically anything to-
gether. But when their career
paths take yet another turn with
Beth returning to the dance stu-
dio and Randall running for pub-
lic office, their relationship finally
hits what could be an impasse. “At
any other point in our marriage, if
you had decided that you wanted
to go back to dance, I would have
been nothing but supportive,”
Randall tells her in Season 3. “Oh,
so when would I have done that?”
Beth snaps. “Between which of
your anxiety attacks?” But they
rallied, moving to Philadelphia
together and making it work.
Flash-forward some 20 years,
and the pair are poised to actually
be the next Obamas. Randall is a
U.S. senator contemplating
“deep-fried Oreos” at his mother’s
funeral, which means he’s debat-
ing heading to the Iowa State Fair
to appeal to potential voters. Beth,
ever the ride-or-die, is on board.
But the real bow around their
family’s love story comes courtesy
of their eldest daughter, Deja, who
is expecting her first child with
Malik, the boy she fell in love with
in high school. They’re having a
son and naming him William.
“Your grandson is going to be
named after a man I never met,
but I know him because I know
you. It’s not pointless,” Deja says.Kate and Toby
“I had this whole dream life
that I envisioned for myself. A real
career. I would marry a man like
Dad, I would be a mom like Mom,
but look at me, Kev. It’s like I atemy dream life away,” Kate (Chris-
sy Metz) confesses to her brother
in the series opener. The two are
on the floor of her bathroom
where Kate fell after trying to
weigh herself, which leads her to a
support group for overweight
people and a man named Toby
(Chris Sullivan). (There’s also an
annoyingly thin woman who ap-
pears in the credits as “not-really-
fat rich girl.”) Despite telling Toby
that she doesn’t want to date a
man of his size because she wants
to focus, Kate is obviously smit-
ten. But their first date is inter-
rupted by Kevin, who is drunk
and miserable after tanking his
career during a live studio taping
of his hit show “The Manny.”
Eventually, Kate will get the
dream life she told her brother
about. She marries Toby, falls in
love with teaching music and goes
back to school. They have a blind
son named Jack (the Pearsons
love family names) and adopt a
daughter, Hailey. But not all
comes up roses. Toby loses the
weight and takes a high-power
tech job in San Francisco while
Kate stays behind in Los Angeles
to care for the kids. The tension
comes to a head in the final sea-
son.
“I am sorry that I like putting
on a suit to go to work, and Jack
Pearson hated it. I’m sorry I don’t
father my children exactly the
way Jack Pearson did. I’m sorry
that Jack Pearson died, and you
ended up having to marry me
instead of him,” Toby tells Kate.
“It’s over, Toby. It’s time,” she
responds.
In the end, what Kate told Toby
the day of their divorce comes
true: This is not how their story
ends. Kate marries her co-worker,
Phillip, and Toby also finds love.
They transition into one of thosedivorced couples that cannot only
be in the same room, but probably
vacation together. At Rebecca’s
funeral Toby tells Kate, “I love ya,
kid,” and he means it.Kevin and Sophie
Let’s be honest, Kevin’s (Justin
Hartley) first big love was himself.
When we meet him, he’s in the
middle of a potential threesome at
a Hollywood party, but instead of
taking off his clothes, he goes on
and on about how unfulfilled he is
in life. That’s a theme with Kevin.
The man is in search of something
but doesn’t quite know what it is.
During the course of the show, he’s
had more than a few big loves: an
actress; a playwright; Beth’s cous-
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