We now pronounce this season ofThis Is Usofficially over.
Let the honeymoon of speculation and questions begin.
(One of Jack’s screwdrivers dutifully would have to fill in for that left-at-home spring break T-shirt.)
Oh, nothing major.
Just dreams of Jack TOTALLY ALIVE AND CELEBRATING HIS 40TH ANNIVERSARY WITH REBECCA.
(Feel free to send a fruit basket or five to theThis Is Uswriters' room.)
Zoe, whom he met at the wedding.
And we jumped ahead two decades, seemingly to the time when we recently met adult Tess.
Randall’s response: “I’m not either.”
Chances are that the tears on your face are surpassed only by the question marks above your head.
This show always strives to balance darkness with light.
Was there a very conscious effort to do something lighter?
That was a very conscious decision.
It’s certainly been a long journey for Kate to forgive herself for Jack’s death.
Her relationship with Rebecca has been two steps forward, one steps back.
And I think they’re moving into season 3 in a really beautiful, healthy place.
It got all of our tears moving when we viewed it as a group.
Yet there’s some darkness juxtaposed in the lightness of this episode.
And how much is it tied to things about her birth father that will be revealed next season?
So, we’ll get to know a little bit more about what that relationship is moving forward.
What can you say about the depth and cause of his depression?
We know he tends to feel things at least nine times stronger than the average human.
And especially when there are stressful situations going on, things can sort of come to a head.
Is there anything you’re free to hint about the trigger for this one?
Why didn’t Toby’s brother show up for the wedding?
The bachelor party is one thing to miss, but this is obviously a bigger deal.
Is that something we’ll be exploring, too?
Toby obviously has some issues with their estrangement.
Obviously it’s such an estranged relationship that he didn’t even bother to come to Toby’s wedding.
Now, here’s what you always wanted!"?
It’s probably the No.
1 thing that fans would put on their wish list.
It really came out of: How can we include Jack in this day without him actually being here?
Obviously seeing him was so startling because we’ve never seen him that way.
Also, his makeup looks so fantastic that you really did feel like you were standing with 70-year-old Jack.
I think what sticks out to me was how older Rebecca changed in his presence.
She seemed like a totally different woman.
I think that was really startlingly moving to us.
Was that something you guys were going to keep a secret, by the way?
Photos of that scene had been leaked by paparazzi.
It really would have been the ultimate surprise not to know that was coming.
Is that why you ultimately decided to tease it in the promo last week?
Now we have this.
So we got really lucky.
Let’s move on to the deep-future scene.
How significant and damaging was whatever fight or alienation happened?
It’s possible that Beth could have passed away….?
I cannot even reveal if it was a fight they were speaking about.
Dan has said that he sees Randall and Beth as always being together.
The fanswillrevolt if they were split apart you know that, right?
[Laughs] I think that the fans definitely would revolt.
Even we revolt amongst our writer selves whenever we talk about them even having a fight.
We always have different degrees of what we can handle internally.
So I think everyone loves to just see them thriving and functioning.
We’ve now gone twice into the distant future, both into that Tess story line.
And then we see Kevin headed to Vietnam with his new girlfriend Zoe, which was another twist.
What motivates Kevin to go on this mission?
In a way, definitely.
We know that we’ll be exploring Vietnam.
I really want our fans to relax over the summer.
They’ve been through a lot.
[Laughs] But yeah, we have this looming future question, “What is Randall talking about?
What’s going on in the future?
Who is “she”?
To read Milo Ventimiglia’s thoughts on playing old Jack at his 40th wedding anniversary,click here.
