This Is Us: Season 4

So what did we learn from the last episode? We learned that at some point in the future Kevin builds a house on the land where the cabin sits. And that he definitely slept with Kate’s best friend, but that might have been revealed last week and I just skipped past it. And Kate once had a really awful boyfriend. Which we kinda already knew.

Anything else?

We learned Randall is losing his gd mind even more than we thought.

Unfortunately, we learned that Kevin and Randall did NOT actually beat the living shit out of douchebag Marc :frowning:

Toby seemed to be bonding with his son in the episode, so perhaps he and Kate stay together in the future? Hard to tell with this show, given its love of misdirection.

Was hoping to see older Mark working in that record store, Kevin recognizing him, and scaring him away with a look.

I don’t enjoy these episodes and I’m starting to actually dread pushing play the next morning. I might be out after this season.

Does anyone know why they were so coy about who Randall’s therapist was? Except for one brief shot at the end of the episode, we only saw her from behind. Was it someone we were supposed to recognize?

The therapist was played by Pamela Adlon, who has been on a couple of series. As for not showing who it was, perhaps that was to keep emphasis on Randall.

That hissing was driving ME crazy!

Really, just leave the pot on the burner.

Well well well. Some mysteries solved. Some questions answered this week.

Is the show trying to make me hate Randall? On purpose? I might be done. I’m not satisfied when I watch it and I think it’s going to get more ridiculous rather than stay the course. I liked it as a distraction but now it’s making me mad and being as annoying as the things I’m trying to be distracted from.

Yes all I could think at the end was “Wow who knew Randall was such a horrible person?” I mean I knew he was a know-it-all Type A control freak for a while but irrational grudge was absolutely clownish over-the-top. I have felt unsatisfied and slightly angry since last season already. I usually just kind of skim through the whole show in about 10 minutes these days.

I’m getting tired of the “let’s throw in some random characters and make you guess how they fit in, and we’ll throw in some red herrings while we’re at it” plot device. I thought the horse training scene was completely unnecessary. I get that it was a setup for Madison’s OB-GYN’s speech, but I’m not sure the setup was really needed.

And yeah, they’ve made Toby and Randall, my two favorite characters, come off as tools this season. Not happy about that…