Grab a few extra boxes of Kleenex and start clicking to see what awaits you and Jack this Sunday.
The Super Bowl episode will be supersized.
This special installmentwill run about three minutes longer than a normal episode.
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This is the episode in which Jack dies.
No, really this is it.
Yes, you’ve braced yourself before, convinced it was coming at end of season 1.
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ButThis Is Uscreator Dan Fogelman saysthat this is “the Big One.
“Mandy Moore (Rebecca) has said as much, too.
As didTIUexec producer Isaac Aptaker, who declares: “Questions will be answered in a very satisfying way.
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The episode picks up right where it left off.
And from there, things heat up.
“It’s almost a ‘To Be Continued…'” notes Aptaker.
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Meanwhile, Fogelman says that the producers spent a “fortune” on the opening 5 to 10 minutes.
It is cinematic, its epic in scope.
He is able to take the mundane and turn it into a superhero movie.”
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This episode also might destroy your tear ducts for good.
It’s not just a death march, though.
It aims to transcend mystery resolution.
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“It will be very rewarding for fans in a different kind of way.
Randall and Beth receive an important phone call.
Remember that kid from the fall finalewho was in need a foster home?
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“Youll see the manifestation of that relationship in the Super Bowl episode.”
There’s more to learn about Kate’s guilt over Jack’s death and the family dog.
The adult Big Three observe Super Bowl Sunday in different ways.
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All of those puzzle pieces will snap into place.
The end of the season 2 premieregave us a brief glimpse of that fateful night.
Rebecca (Mandy Moore) sobbing in her car by the burned-down Pearson house.
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Randall, his red-headed girlfriend, and Kate, distraught at Miguel’s with the dog.
Kevin not there, over at Sophie’s.
“The episode is alternately thrilling and brutally heartbreaking and sad,” says Fogelman.
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“And then surprising.
If you stick with it and can make it through it, its very rewarding.”
Certain moments were filmed with alternate lines of dialogue.
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When it was time to film the episode, the Pittsburgh Steelers a.k.a.
the hometown team were still contenders for reaching the Super Bowl.
So yes, it would have been very, very cool, but what are you going to do?
We cant control football.”
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