In the previous episode, Kevin overcame his doubts about Madison by heeding stepfather Miguel’s (Jon Huertas) advice that not every love story is an epic Hollywood tale. Ron Batzdorff/NBCĪfter 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. But, ultimately, it’s an optimistic show.”Ĭhris Sullivan (Toby) with Chrissy Metz (Kate) in “The Adirondacks,” written by Fogelman. This show has always been about taking snapshots of a family’s existence at one period of time and then looking backward or looking forward and seeing how you get from point A to point B, or sometimes point B to point C, or sometimes point C to point B. But there you are, five or 10 years later, and life is in a different place. He continued, “I was speaking recently about some of the losses and heartbreak I’ve experienced in my own life and how, at that moment, I would have been hard-pressed to imagine any future joy or optimism. “The balancing act of our show has always been in mixing the tragedies and the heartbreak of life with the joy and the beauty. People don’t live forever,” the creator and co-showrunner added to THR. But on second viewing, you can see the feeling and the smiles that exist in that moment.”Īfter all, Rebecca’s ( Mandy Moore) final words of the season to her children were, “Everything’s going to be all right.” And that sentiment, Fogelman said, is something the This Is Us team was hoping to capture. “On first viewing, you are registering the twist and the shock of what you’re seeing. “Despite two reveals of marriages not quite working out, when you cut to that period in the future, everyone feels good,” Fogelman told The Hollywood Reporter during a call with reporters about the season-ender on Tuesday. And that includes Kevin, who looks genuinely happy and flirty with Madison (Caitlin Thompson) - even though she called off their wedding in the show’s current timeline earlier in the finale episode (more on that below). NBC 2021-22 Schedule: No Fall Comedies, 'This Is Us' Final Run to Midseasonīut not only is Kate glowing while stepping out in her wedding dress - “This is the last time I’m doing this,” she confidently says - her family members who appear in the flash-forward are excited about the union. 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 (Chris Geere). Ever since the shocking time-jump finale of season three, a seed had been planted that Kate and Toby (Chris Sullivan) might split up in the future.
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The final scene of Tuesday’s season finale jumped four years ahead to show Kate ( Chrissy Metz) - gasp! - on her second wedding day. And, in wrapping season five (which is the penultimate season for the top-rated NBC drama), Fogelman and his creative team revealed a new timeline for the show to explore when it returns for its final run. This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman has long known how the Pearson family’s story will end.