On Friday night, This Is Us wrapped their final episode of season 2 and the show’s creator Dan Fogelman Tweeted the final scene they shot that day. Does it mean the last scene is of Randall (Sterling K Brown) in bed with his two girls? We don’t know, but we will find out on March 14th. Can you wait that long? What do you think is happening in this scene?
Sterling K Brown has reached a point in his career that Saturday Night Live came a knocking at his door. When he heard that knock, he did not say, “Who’s there?” Because that would be a really bad childish joke. Instead, he ran to it, flung it open and kissed the feet of the poor singing telegram guy that was there to give him the news.
In other words, his words, he said, “This is truly a dream come true. I’ve watched @nbcsnl since I was a baby. To finally get to host is one of the more surreal moments of my life, but it’s gonna be awesome. #SKBSNL.”
So mark your calendars for March 10th because that is when he is going to be hosting SNL. It should be interesting because this is the closest we have seen him do comedy since FX’s Starved and not many people laughed with that show besides me.
Seriously, I have never seen someone as excited to host the show as he is to do it. Which means he will nail it just like he does with every scene of American Crime Story: The People v OJ Simpson and This Is Us.
We knew that Jack died within the first few episodes of This Is Us, but we did not know how until this past Sunday night. While we just found out, how long did the cast know about it? Ellen DeGeneres asked Milo Ventimiglia that very thing. He revealed to her that he kept the secret for about a year and a half. He said, “[Dan] Forgelman, our creator, he let us know, Mandy and I, and everyone else knew about it.”
How does he feel that is out there? In one word “relieved.” Imagine all the people who have come up to him, for the last year and a half, and wanted to know more. He probably wanted to tell them and couldn’t. Same goes for the rest of the liars, I mean cast!
Another thing Ventimiglia told the daytime talk show host is how they filmed that fire scene. They built a replica of the house in remote area for safety and security. Why for security? Because that house was really on fire and the actors came real close to the flames. Before you freak out and think that Ventimiglia could have met the same fate as Jack, it was all contained by a special effects crew. It was terrifying to film, but it was safe to do so. Because of that realism, our hearts were racing almost as much as his when he went back in to that house to save the dog, Kate’s stupid audition tape (I blame her) and the photo albums. CGI does not have the same effect as the real thing and boy did that episode feel real. Ask my bedroom trash can that is full of used tissues from the last two episodes of This Is Us.
How many tissue boxes did you go through? I went through a whole box during those scenes with Mandy Moore and Gerald McRaney.
Last night, many people watched This Is Us with other people at Super Bowl parties and did not want anyone to see them cry. But how could you not cry when Rebecca’s reality came crashing down on her that her husband, she was just talking to and seemed fine, is now dead. Mandy Moore’s face just reached into your soul and gutted it.
You were destroyed. And you were not alone. Millions of people were balling their eyes out with you including Chrissy Metz who watched her TV father die. Sterling K Brown captured her reaction and it breaks our hearts all over again.
Dang you, Dan Fogelman. My eyes are still sore, and there are not enough episodes of The Neighbors and Galavant to make my smile today. I want to be mad at you, but you are so brilliant and I am so glad that you are finally getting the respect your so richly deserve.
Tomorrow night on This Is Us, we are going to watch Jack die in a house fire that is caused by a Crock Pot. Ever since we found out it caused his death, the slow cooker has been harassed by fans of the NBC drama and even taken a financial hit.
Therefore, they brilliantly came up with a way to win back the people’s trust. They hired Milo Ventimiligia to do a Super Bowl ad for them and at the end of it, they write “#CrockPotIsInnocent. Hopefully, it will be enough to save the trusted cooking utensil. Which it should be because this is what Super Bowl ads are all about. The best of the best!
