‘This Is Us’ Creator Explains The Series’ Poetic Final Scene
25.05.2022 - 14:19
/ etcanada.com
This story contains spoilers from the series finale of “This Is Us”.
“This Is Us” took the simple route when it came time to close the books on six seasons — and it was all by design.
The series finale on Tuesday closed out a glorious six-season run with quiet moments of reflection. In the distant past, a young Pearson family — with Jack and Rebecca leading a little Big Three — enjoying a lazy Saturday, a culmination of small, insignificant moments that amounted to something more. In the present, a grown-up Big Three grieving the loss of their mother on the day of her funeral while looking ahead to their promising futures.
The last images were simple in concept and execution — a young Randall watching his father, Jack, who was savoring every second with his family on that lazy weekend, and Jack and Rebecca coming back together on the train as they went to the great beyond.
“I thought that in that shot older Randall is indicative of the grown children or a child who has fully grown. And Milo [Ventimiglia] in that moment is representing a parent to his entire family. I just wanted the simplicity of the shot of a child taking in the parent at a moment when the parent is taking in something bigger and knowing that that child will carry forward in their own lives. It was less in that moment about these two men who have been cornerstones of our show… It was less about Randall and Jack and it was more about child and parent in that moment,” creator Dan Fogelman said of the poetic ending of “This Is Us”.
And for him, it was always going to end with Jack and Rebecca, the catalyst for the life that came after, saying those final words of dialogue.
“In the back of my mind, I always thought that the final actual scripted spoken
The website popstar.one is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can
send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.