This Is Us Season 5 Episode 17

In the previous episode, Kevin overcame his doubts about Madison by heeding stepfather Miguel's advice that not every love story is an epic Hollywood tale. "Some love stories are written in the stars and other love stories are written together," he told the groom-to-be, comparing his marriage to Rebecca after the death of Jack to Kevin and Madison being brought together by her unexpected pregnancy. But Madison tells Kevin that she deserves to be marrying a man who is in love with her, and not just as the mother to his children.

It's really happening," he says, announcing that he's going to take the Manny reboot, after all, to provide stability for his kids. "If the world stopped for the bad stuff, then everything would be dark," she reasons. "But the world keeps going so we can find that crack of light on the other side of the door, you know? We have found the light before, big brother, and we'll find it again." He's almost crying. Then Toby comes home, surprising Kate, who didn't expect him back that night. The producers planned for Season 5 ofThis Is Usto air 18 episodes, like each of the previous seasons.

However, production of the beloved family drama was shut down numerous times because of the spread of COVID-19. It was very challenging to film over the last year, and the show didn't start airing until late October 2020. The final scene of Tuesday's season finale jumped four years ahead to show Kate — gasp! Ever since the shocking time-jump finale of season three, a seed had been planted that Kate and Toby might split up in the future. 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 . It's hard to believe that we're so close to the end of the smash-hit NBC drama starring Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz and Justin Hartley.

In just 18 episodes, we'll all learn what's really going on in that famous flash-forward scene and what the future holds for the Big Three. Going back to the present, Beth finally comes down on Randall asking him to admit that he thinks his job is more important than hers. And to Randall, it's reminiscent of when his parents were arguing about Rebecca's singing career. Beth goes on and reminds him of all the times she stood by him and even stood back from her own dreams to support his. But, this time, she has found what she's been looking for her whole life, and she is not giving it up.

This time, she's not willing to bend to make their lives work. Now back to that preview for next week's episode. At the end of last night's show, it looked like Kevin was getting cold feet. In a first look at the last episode before the wedding finale, Kevin gives his ex-wife Sophie a call. He later admits, "Talking to her made me confused," and is seen asking his brother for advice. "How does anyone ever really know who they're supposed to marry?

After a shot of Kevin staring down at Sophie's contact in her phone, the promo comes to a close, leaving us with just enough juicy info to hold on until next week. To watch the preview for next week's episode of This Is Us, just scroll to the top of this article. "We always knew season six would be ambitious in terms of the way the show jumps time, and even more ambitious than other seasons," Fogelman says. "But I think you're going to have a real sense of resolution and completion for this family. We have been working tirelessly to set up this rewarding final season to make all the pieces fit together." Fogelman says they know they owe the viewers a lot of answers, but that's always the been the game plan. If many of the episodes on this list are Randall-centric, it's only because the character has consistently been given the most to do and Brown's stellar work makes it endlessly watchable.

In "Birth Mother," Randall and Beth head to New Orleans to meet the Vietnamese man who loved his birth mother, and the events provide the most anxiety-ridden Pearson with the cathartic release he's badly needed. The flashbacks are revealing, yet it's the present-day scenes, in which Randall channels his late father's wisdom in dealing with potential foster daughter Deja and an alcoholic Kevin, that hint at the Randall fans would come to know so well. Whether you consider This Is Us a deeply moving drama, a cheesy, schlocky soap, or an entertaining mix of both, it's hard to deny just how big an influence the NBC series has had on pop culture since its debut in 2016.

And as the show enters its sixth and final season tonight, the pressure on its cast and crew to solidify that legacy is higher than ever. There were hints in the two-minute flash-forward that Kevin and Madison could be writing their love story together. In the episodes leading up to the finale, Kevin came to the realization that he changes aspects about himself in order to please the woman he is dating. That continues to be true at his wedding, when the actor runs himself ragged trying to give Madison the perfect day and edits movie references out of his vows, per her request.

When one of the three babies died after giving birth, he was replaced with a child from an orphanage. But the rest do not even realize that an adopted child is growing up with them. Kevin is too passionate about the theater; he constantly rehearses and even finds himself a beloved, who is also his partner. He often quarrels with his sister, with whom he is forced to share a room. They clearly lack personal space, especially during their teenage years. The girl, in turn, is trying to figure out her own relationship.

She is too obsessed with losing weight, which makes other aspects of her life suffer a lot. In the meantime, parents are trying to figure out how to explain everything to already grown children. After all, they, for sure, will take the truth with hostility.

We then get another classic This Is Us flashback of when Déjà left the Pearsons' to go back and live with her mom. Side note, but this scene was even more emotional to watch this time around. Knowing Déjà's backstory gives this a whole new set of feels.

When Beth finds out that Randall told his mom about all the proposals, however, she snaps. And she finally admits that she's holding back on marriage because she doesn't want Randall's life to consume hers. Later on, Rebecca talks to Beth and tells her about the time Randall cried when they were stargazing when he was about 11 years old.

It was because he was afraid because he didn't know where he fits in the world. But, when he met Beth, he told his mom that he didn't have that fear anymore. The episode opens with Kevin practicing a speech in front of the mirror on the day of the wedding.

In a long-ago timeline, his mother, Rebecca , plans to watch a VHS recording of the infamous "Dynasty" wedding massacre, only to find out that Jack taped a Pittsburgh Pirates game over it. Her anger at her husband, while completely understandable, upsets the children, so Jack and Rebecca pull out the film projector to show them their wedding before staging a impromptu family wedding in their living room. And, in one of the series' signature switcheroos, there's a surprise future wedding revealed at the end, a moment that will keep fans talking until the show's final season, which premieres in January.

Tuesday's Season 5 finale of the emotional NBC drama focused on the couple, who recently became the parents of twins, but their wedding wasn't the only one featured. Viewers also got a glimpse of the cute family wedding Jack and Rebecca staged to soothe their young children years earlier and flashbacks of Kevin's sister, Kate, when she took her vows with Toby. And in honor of the final season, NBC has released this video of the cast as they reminisce about the show that changed their lives and look ahead to an emotional and rewarding sixth season. Switching back to the present timeline in the episode, Madison called off her wedding with Kevin. The last episode of This Is Us before the new season arrives, "The Adirondacks" marks some crucial changes for the Pearsons & Co. Will the season-six premiere resolve some of those mysteries?

Eh, probably not — this is This Is Us after all, and the show loves nothing more than to keep us guessing as long as possible. Over the past few seasons, we've slowly been fed clues to the Pearson family's future, but there are still several questions that need answering in the remaining episodes. Why haven't we seen Kate in the big flash-forward yet?

We just know that there is so much more drama left to come. We're definitely all going to take a long nap after this last season. But I think definitely those two periods are periods we're going to spend more time in.

Obviously one was just established, but the other one has been used more for answers to questions, but we haven't lived there a lot. The fifth-season finale of the NBC family drama ended with a surprising reveal that has been in the plans for "quite a while," says Dan Fogelman. "There will be no looming questions when we get though the end of next season. Everything will be resolved." Eren is much more of a cipher in this premiere and honestly the opening and closing numbers do a better job at illustrating his current mental state. However, every punch that Reiner takes has real honorable intention behind it. He simply wants to end Eren's suffering at the end of the day.

He's not driven by any delusions of grandeur or megalomaniacal fantasies. Reiner just longs for peace, after thousands of years of pain. Attack on Titan has orchestrated such magic with its villainization of Eren over the final season that it's genuinely exciting when Reiner's attack is reinforced by Porco, Pieck, Magath, and Marley seems to stand a fighting chance. The promo of This Is Us season 4 episode 17 sees Jack comforting his family amid the fire. The clip also shows him toast during Randall and Beth's wedding. But, the most touching moment was when Jack accompanies Randall to meet his birth father, William.

It seems like this episode will be an emotional one, as Randall reflects on the past and when Jack is still alive. I have a feeling next week's season finale is going to be filled with promise, and will deliver an effective episode that honors Jack the way he deserves. "It's where the mixed-up VHS tapes of this family's existence will coalesce and speak to one another in completion." This Is UsSeason 5 has been a long one, with the family drama taking a lengthy break between November and January before starting up again. In total, there are 16 episodes in This Is UsSeason 5. Next week marks the penultimate episode, with the latest season coming to an end on Tuesday, May 25.

Dan Folgerman's highly successful family drama 'This is Us' will return to our screens this Tuesday, January 4 on NBC with the first episode of its sixth and final season. On Madison and Kevin's wedding day, Kevin is trying to make sure it's perfect for his future wife…until she begins to realize she needs to stop accepting "scraps" in her life and hold out for someone truly in love with her. While Kevin has done everything he can to be that guy, it's obvious there's something holding him back. By the end of the episode, Madison decides she wants and deserves more, and she calls off the wedding.

As sad as it is, it's a beautiful scene between Justin Hartley and Caitlin Thompson. After the massage, Kate gets a message from Phillip that there's an emergency at school. She arrives just in time to overhear his girlfriend, Jessica, railing at him.

"Don't you dare use your traumatic past" to get out of our relationship, she tells him, but he counters that she bores him and that eating dinner with her is like watching paint dry. Anyway, after Jessica stomps out, Philip reveals that the "emergency" is really that the kids wanted to sing Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" for Kate for her birthday. Knowing what we know about their future, he's clearly Thinking Things and maybe even Feeling Things, too. Later, as The Big Three sit in their elementary school classroom with their teacher and classmates, they watch the space craft explode soon after launch. Naturally, the tragedy leaves its mark on the Pearson kids. Randall worries that the children of schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, who was onboard, won't have anyone to make them dinner that night.

And Kevin tells Jack he's not worried, because the explosion was on TV and therefore it wasn't real. That night, after bedtime, Kevin and Kate sadly realize that their parents will one day die, too. NBC has promised that the family drama's final season will have "a largely uninterrupted run" following season five's pandemic-induced delayed start, multiple hiatuses and shortened episode count. Keep in mind that these aren't necessarily the best hours of the series or the wildest but the episodes that most encapsulate the high drama, emotional heft, and "holy crap"–ism at its core.

I mean, I haven't really talked to anybody about it, honestly. It's been interesting seeing the news of , just because we've been so clear about it from the very beginning that it was going to be six seasons. The Pearson family story has an endpoint because of the age of the kids, and because we're telling the story in the future. It's not to say there aren't more surprises in store, but I just honestly haven't even had the conversations.

Elsewhere in the hour, Randall (Sterling K. Brown) and Rebecca experienced healing in their conversation about his perspective-shifting trip to New Orleans to learn about his birth mother. Rebecca asked Kate to build that modern house next to the family cabin as seen in the flash-forward. Malik revealed to Deja that he got into Harvard, setting up another long-distance situation. Oh, and five years from now, Randall is a rising star getting national magazine attention. Interested audiences can watch 'This Is Us' Season 5 Episode 17 by tuning in to NBC at the aforementioned time slot if you have an active cable subscription.

The latest episodes are released online the next day for people to watch on the official NBC website and NBC app. You will need to log in with a valid cable provider ID to watch on NBC, though. In the time jump, Randall is shown being profiled by a magazine as a "Rising Star," uncle Nicky references a "wife" and Beth is a bridesmaid for Kate, along with Madison.

When speaking about the new seeds that have been planted heading into the final season — which will capture the 41st year of life for the Big Three — Fogelman called out Brown and Moore in particular as other big storylines ahead. Primarily, he said the final season will "live heavily" in the time period of Kate's second wedding, when the Big Three are 45, and in the period 10 to 15 years down the line, when the family has gathered by Rebecca's bedside. List of episodesThe fifth season of the American television series This Is Us continues to follow the lives and connections of the Pearson family across several time periods.

Productions, Zaftig Films, and 20th Television, with Dan Fogelman, Isaac Aptaker, and Elizabeth Berger serving as showrunners. This is Us is an American drama TV series created by Dan Fogelman that premiered on NBC on September 20, 2016. The series follows the lives and families of two parents, and their three children, in several different time frames.

There is so much to cover as Attack on Titan barrels ahead into its endgame, but "Judgment" is actually a relatively simple installment of the series and a slow ease back into this dreadful dystopia. The episode picks up immediately from Pieck's unsuccessful coup to wipe out Eren, which has only empowered him with a more intense rage than ever before. The parallels and dichotomy between Eren Yeager and Reiner Braun made up some of the most compelling material from the first half of Attack on Titan's final season. Their rivalry and what their opposing forces represent become the driving force behind "Judgment," as both of these characters are prepared for whatever fallout accompanies their actions. This is Us is the award-winning family drama series starring Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley and Susan Kelechi Watson.