# This is Us: Season 3 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415 "2018-10-04T12:31:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/61 "2019-01-24T18:04:58Z")
The Big Three meet their uncle, Becca apparently knew that he wasn’t dead, and Beth is going on job interviews. Nick was so stupid all the way around. Hand grenades to fish? Of course we could see the consequences coming from a mile away. I can understand Jack wanting shut of him after that. I guess Nick is on some sort of disability? I would think with Kate’s high risk pregnancy there’d be no way she’d risk a plane flight across country. Maybe that will come back later. A bit on the nose at the end, with Jack choosing to go home and the Big Three choosing to go back to the trailer. My Facebook memories popped up today with the post I made about the house fire. I still haven’t gotten over that. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/62 "2019-01-25T01:45:48Z")
This season is losing me. Have I mentioned that I hate tv shows with Vietnam flashbacks? (All wars, tbh, but Vietnam is the most common one). Hate it. HATE. I don’t mind war shows or movies, but I hate the heavy handedness tv series use for their Very Special Episodes. And 45 years after the war, there really isn’t a whole lot new to see on tv short form. I can see maybe how and why Jack wouldn’t tell the kids, as they weren’t adults, but I still don’t get why he didn’t tell Mandy Moore. None of that compartmentalization stuff works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/63 "2019-01-25T15:25:00Z")
I disagree with the premise of that episode. Jack would have never abandoned his brother like that. I think the writers screwed up. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/64 "2019-02-20T14:26:38Z")
Finally we get some background about Beth. I liked the episode, and Phylicia Rashad was awesome as always, but I had serious problems with what looked like 13-year-old Beth going to a college mixer and running into a Randall that was nearly a foot taller than she was. If she’s college age, she should be close to her full height at that point, right? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/65 "2019-02-20T14:36:08Z")
We’re getting an idea of how Beth became owner of a dance company. I understand her mother…her husband had just died and they probably couldn’t afford to continue Beth’s dance classes. I wonder if Grown Up Beth is a dancer in real life? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/66 "2019-02-20T16:20:38Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > If she’s college age, she should be close to her full height at that point, right? Yeah, that jumped out at me also. Unless she skipped a few grades (and I doubt her dance heavy schedule makes that reasonable), I assume that most women are pretty much full-height by 18 or so (I know a lot men still get taller in college). Actually, teen Randall was probably the wrong size/maturity also (unless he had a hell of growth spurt after 18), so maybe they just decided to be consistent and have too-young versions of both of them. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/67 "2019-02-21T02:13:42Z")
I wondered if she was a senior in HS going to a pre-freshman event? Not that it changes the age thing but it would explain her mother driving her to a “college mixer.” I’d have died after HS graduation to have my mommy drop me off at a party. Plus I am just a tiny bit older than The Big 3 and went to college in PA and I don’t think I ever heard the word “mixer” in related to a college function unless it was referencing illicit alcohol. Beth’s 90s outfit was on point though, even if the mother’s words made me wonder what decade we were in. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/68 "2019-02-21T02:18:06Z")
Another thing; the mixer was at Carnegie-Mellon, and I could see nerdy Randall there, but wasn’t he set on Howard University? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/69 "2019-02-21T13:39:58Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Another thing; the mixer was at Carnegie-Mellon, and I could see nerdy Randall there, but wasn’t he set on Howard University? He turned that down for reasons I don’t remember. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/70 "2019-02-21T14:10:12Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > I disagree with the premise of that episode. Jack would have never abandoned his brother like that. I think the writers screwed up. I totally agree - I can see him maybe keeping it a secret but not walking away from him. I don’t think his brother would have insisted being part of Jack’s family life but did finally reach out to him for help. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/71 "2019-04-03T13:12:49Z")
So the season finale was last night. What do you think? Over multiple episodes, Randall and Beth seemed to be moving towards a bitter divorce, after having been very happily married, but they stepped back from the edge last night. And earlier I whined about the unlikelihood of Randall running for and then winning and apparently serving as a Philadelphia city councilman, despite not even living in the city or even the state. I don’t want to say much more in case you haven’t yet watched it. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/72 "2019-04-03T13:31:55Z")
I thought it was a great episode. And the switch with Randall and Beth was handled well I thought. I was sure they were divorced in the future ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/73 "2019-04-03T13:40:53Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > I thought it was a great episode. > > And the switch with Randall and Beth was handled well I thought. I was sure they were divorced in the future It was a great episode! The last scene showed there are lots of things ahead. Any ideas as to what the significance of the Pin the Tail on the Donkey game is? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/74 "2019-04-03T14:48:03Z")
I loved it. Beth and Randall were able to work things out, Kevin has at least one child in the future, Nicky comes back into their lives, Baby Jack survives, but it seems like Kate and Toby aren’t together anymore? It may not be a divorce…Kate may have died. :eek: In last season’s finale they seemed to imply Future Deja was in jail? I haven’t seen much follow up on that. We didn’t see Future Tess either. I love how this show jumps ahead, and then you have to figure out how they got from A to B. Beth seems to be the one who thinks outside the box. It never occurred to Randall that they move to Philly. I don’t know if Dying Becca is in Philly, New York, or California. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/75 "2019-04-04T15:36:28Z")
Besides Kate not being there, it was interesting that Nicky was there but Miguel was not. Again, divorced or dead? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/76 "2019-04-04T16:03:03Z")
I wonder if Nicky’s presence but Miguel’s absence is suggesting that Rebecca will be married to Nicky in the future? Or is he just there because she’s his sister-in-law? The writers will let us know sometime in the next year or three. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/77 "2019-04-04T16:13:18Z")
Pure speculation: Since NBC owns both shows and presumably keeps significant sets in storage, and only because Phylicia Rashad played her mother, Randal and Beth’s new home will look remarkably similar to the Huxtable residence. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/78 "2019-04-04T17:12:42Z")
The flash forward was handled well. Enough ambiguity to make me watch next seadon. Sent from my SM-G930T using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/79 "2019-04-04T19:22:32Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Besides Kate not being there, it was interesting that Nicky was there but Miguel was not. Again, divorced or dead? I thought I saw Miguel in the room too. I fear Kate may be dead. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415/80 "2019-04-04T19:30:28Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I thought I saw Miguel in the room too. I fear Kate may be dead. Well dang it, now I need to go watch it again! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-us-season-3/822415.md?page=5)