This Is Us is a family dramedy tailor-made to pull in viewers of Parenthood, and it somehow takes things up a notch for good measure. It’s a show that, for good or ill, depending on your preferences, is overloaded with melodrama for melodrama’s own sake, made by people who don’t realize that’s a special kind of redundant.
The show opens with an introduction to a variety of stories, without an explanation as to why we’re watching all of these people, or how they connect, except insofar as their having the same birthday.
Kevin (Justin Hartley) is an actor who isn’t happy with the gig he’s got, and is, perhaps surprisingly, coming to terms with the hollowness of his existence, and the shallow part he no longer wants to play.
Kate (Chrissy Metz) is struggling with her weight, and her birthday is now making...
The show opens with an introduction to a variety of stories, without an explanation as to why we’re watching all of these people, or how they connect, except insofar as their having the same birthday.
Kevin (Justin Hartley) is an actor who isn’t happy with the gig he’s got, and is, perhaps surprisingly, coming to terms with the hollowness of his existence, and the shallow part he no longer wants to play.
Kate (Chrissy Metz) is struggling with her weight, and her birthday is now making...
- 9/19/2016
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
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