The season premiere of This Is Us aired last night and it felt so good to see these characters once again.
It's Randall, Kate and Kevin's birthday and celebrating might not be the way they would have hoped it would be. Randall and Beth are pursuing adopting a baby, but Beth isn't too sure she would want to do that until she rethinks at a time where her and William had a discussion at his favorite spot. While Randall talks to Rebecca about how adopting and asking when did she knew he was theirs and she goes on saying that with every marriage there's one that pushes and it was Jack.
Later, Beth takes Randall for a ride to Williams favorite spot and gives him not only one birthday gift but an idea for adopting. Instead of adopting a baby, maybe adopting an older kid. Seems like it's a go.
Meanwhile, Kevin is having an okay time in Hollywood after filming for Ron Howard, he gets a call from Sophie about how she cant come due to her mother's MS. So that makes his plans with Kate and Toby a threesome birthday date, for which Toby didn't like it.
Toby gets Kate's confidence up for her audition but when she goes to her audition she looks around and thinks back to the pool scene where every girl didn't want to hangout with her. She skips and has birthday dinner with Kevin and Toby, but she tells Kevin before telling Toby about the audition. Kevin tries to make things better with Toby and Kate, but Toby needs Kevin to back off just a bit from Kate just a bit.
After the two argued, Kate stopped them and headed back to the audition. She came in with a lot of confidence and only got a short audition but fought to the manager that she has the ability to sing than just looking a size two until he brings a backup singer to sing and tells her that she can sing but didn't get it and that it wasn't looking who's skinny. For which gave her a goal to set and peruse.
Kevin tells Toby while Kate was auditioning that she was the one that told him that their father died and that they are inseparable. Bur Toby understands that but he wants Kevin to give them a little bit of space. For which he did, letting them go drink their feelings away while Kevin headed back to the hotel to find Sophie there.
Probably the one thing that will stand out through this episode is learning about Jack's death, since that's the one thing everyone has been asking about since season one.
We see how both Jack and Rebecca took time away from one another, thinking that this would be okay until Rebecca comes back to bring Jack home. But after a heartfelt speech from Rebecca, Jack tells her that he's drunk and has been drinking for weeks. He tells her he needs help and he will but just when you think after he shuts the door it was over.
Nope!
Rebecca pushes him to come home. But as we see them driving home, we jump into a scene where Rebecca drives with a small bag (wedding ring and other things I want to say), and later come to seeing Migual calming Randall and Kate about Jack's death and Kate telling Randall they need to find Kevin (while kissing Sophie) to tell him.
But we come to Rebecca driving home and sees the home and turns out the house was on fire and burned badly. What could this be, did Jack had another hard time given up drinking that he drank himself and had an accident?
"A Father's Advice" was an amazing episode that had such great character development, soild writing and performances, manily from Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Chrissy Metz, Sterling K. Brown and Susan Kelechi Watson. I really enjoyed the narration of Ron Cephas Jones' William reading/typing up his book that it just seemed to fitting. Was I tearing up through the episode? Yes. This was such a great first episode to start the season.
Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.
You can catch This Is Us Tuesdays at 9/8c on NBC.
