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This week’s episode of This Is Us (titled: “Last Christmas”) is another emotionally packed episodes that begs the question, “Can something bad happen on Christmas Eve?”

Recap:

Throughout this episode, mortality comes into play. In the past timeline, Kate needs an appendectomy, and while at the hospital, the Pearson family runs into Dr. K, who was in a car accident. Kate is terrified of going into surgery, and Rebecca rips a piece of Christmas decoration from a garland, saying it’s a magical Christmas branch, and tells her daughter that nothing bad happens on Christmas Eve. While Kate is in surgery, Rebecca and Jack visit with Dr. K. The doctor informs them that he isn’t going to make it due to internal bleeding. At this point, Randall comes into the room after spending his own money to purchase a snowglobe for Dr. K. Dr. K accepts the gift and tells Randall that if he ever has a chance to do good for someone else, he should.

In the present, Kevin and Sloane are arguing, and we realize that Oliva hasn’t shown up for work and the play is cancelled. Sloane forces Kevin to come to Hanukkah dinner with her to make it up to her (and the fact that she told her mother she was dating the Manny). At dinner, Sloane is the starving artist according to her family yet gives a fantastic retelling of the Hanukkah story to her nieces. Kevin tells her that she should play the lead in the show and he will pay for the production with his own money.

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This week’s episode of This Is Us (titled: “The Trip”) is another emotional performance from Randall, who is still reeling from the lie his mother kept from him his entire life.

Recap:

In the beginning of this episode, we find Randall angrily pacing in his bedroom, writing notes down on a sheet of paper. He invites Beth and William in the room because they are waiting outside of the door for him. Randall reveals he’s making a list of all the reason’s he’s angry with Rebecca. The question of the episode spills from Randall’s lips to William, “Did my father know about you?” William doesn’t think Jack ever knew, but that question remains to be answered as we jump into a flashback.

Randall becomes very interested in finding out who his birth parents are, and Jack makes a case for him with Rebecca, especially after Yvette tells them that they should find a black male role model for Randall. With the heavy secret on her shoulders, she refuses to indulge Randall and wants him to be happy with his family as is.

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This week’s episode of This Is Us (titled: “Pilgrim Rick”) is both charming and explosive when the secret Rebecca’s been keeping for Randall’s whole life is exposed.

Recap

In the past timeline, Rebecca is stressed about going to her parents’ for Thanksgiving. She’s snippy with the kids and obsessed about the quality of her cranberry sauce. Kate hates the sweater that her grandmother made, while Randall and Kevin are constantly roughhousing. When said cranberry sauce gets involved in the roughhousing and shatters on the ground, the world is at a standstill.

The family stops at several stores to find canned cranberry sauce since it is Thanksgiving and all, and most of the stores are sold out. They seem to finally be on their way, when one of their tires blows out and they crash. In the age with no readily available cell phones, they are stranded and have to walk to find help.

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This week’s episode of This Is Us (titled: The Best Washing Machine in the Whole World) gave us a better understanding of the obvious rift in Kevin and Randall’s relationship. We see the Big Three as teenagers while the strain between Rebecca and Jack presses on their relationship.

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Kate & Toby
Kate and Toby had their own challenges this week. Toby met his goal weight while Kate was sorely disappointed with her results after exercising and eating right for some time. She tries to be a supportive girlfriend while it’s apparent that she’s distraught. Her mood doesn’t improve when she catches Toby binge-eating at home and hiding it from her. He admits that he doesn’t want to diet anymore, even when Kate insists she needs support in that respect. Toby tells Kate he will eat the way she wants them to eat when they’re together. This is tested when they go out to dinner and Toby refuses to get dessert. Kate urges him to get dessert if he wants since she doesn’t want him to go home and hide his eating from her. The desperation and want on her face while he’s eating propels Kate to buy some powdered donuts when she stops for gas on the way home.

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