Cry your eyes out with these five essential 'This Is Us' episodes
Randall Pearson
Meet the Big Three: Kate (Chrissy Metz)   Kevin (Justin Hartley)  and Randall Pearson (Sterling K. Brown) .  They 're all turning 36  and so is Jack (Milo Ventimglia) back in 1980 while wife Rebecca (Mandy Moore) goes into labor. Back in the quaint fall of 2016  Hillary Clinton was running for President and we didn't know that this was the story of one family over the years.
It was around this time that we learned This Is Us would emotionally wreck us on the reg  in this case by introducing a young William trying to reconnect with his son after abandoning him at the fire station. Rebecca agrees to allow this  but experiences a change of heart at the last second. She leaves William without any way of reaching the family  but she changes baby Kyle's name to  Randall  — for William's favorite poet  Dudley Randall.
Horrified that Rebecca kept him from his biological father   Randall  flees to the family's cabin with  his  siblings  along with Kevin's costar Olivia and two of her friends. Kate is furious by the unwanted visitors;  Randall  accidentally takes their drugs and hallucinates Jack at the cabin  giving us a rare scene between Brown and Ventimiglia — one of the only scenes between Ventimiglia and the actors who play  his  adult children  period.
As her due date approaches  Rebecca panics and completely forget's Jack's birthday. We catch up with Dr. K on the same day (note: a Dr. K episode always means extra tissues) and learn that he's still struggling with his wife's death. That's not even the saddest part of the episode; the fireman who finds  Randall  at the station couldn't have children with  his  wife  so  he  finds  Randall  and thinks it's a miracle. Dr. K delivers the triplets again  and loses one  again. We are sobbing  again.
5. Episode 16  "Memphis"
Meet [TGT] .  [TGT] 're all turning 36  and so is Jack (Milo Ventimglia) back in 1980 while wife Rebecca (Mandy Moore) goes into labor. Back in the quaint fall of 2016  Hillary Clinton was running for President and we didn't know that this was the story of one family over the years.
It was around this time that we learned This Is Us would emotionally wreck us on the reg  in this case by introducing a young William trying to reconnect with his son after abandoning him at the fire station. Rebecca agrees to allow this  but experiences a change of heart at the last second. She leaves William without any way of reaching the family  but she changes baby Kyle's name to  Randall  — for William's favorite poet  Dudley Randall.
Horrified that Rebecca kept him from his biological father   Randall  flees to the family's cabin with  his  siblings  along with Kevin's costar Olivia and two of her friends. Kate is furious by the unwanted visitors;  Randall  accidentally takes their drugs and hallucinates Jack at the cabin  giving us a rare scene between Brown and Ventimiglia — one of the only scenes between Ventimiglia and the actors who play  his  adult children  period.
As her due date approaches  Rebecca panics and completely forget's Jack's birthday. We catch up with Dr. K on the same day (note: a Dr. K episode always means extra tissues) and learn that he's still struggling with his wife's death. That's not even the saddest part of the episode; the fireman who finds  Randall  at the station couldn't have children with  his  wife  so  he  finds  Randall  and thinks it's a miracle. Dr. K delivers the triplets again  and loses one  again. We are sobbing  again.
5. Episode 16  "Memphis"