This Is Us Season 5 Finale 2021

After building to a season finale centered around Kevin's wedding to Madison, the current timeline ends with Madison calling off the wedding after forcing Kevin to confront the fact that he is in love with the family they've created, but not with her. In the previous episode, Kevin overcame his doubts about Madison by heeding stepfather Miguel's advice that not every love story is an epic Hollywood tale. "Some love stories are written in the stars and other love stories are written together," he told the groom-to-be, comparing his marriage to Rebecca after the death of Jack to Kevin and Madison being brought together by her unexpected pregnancy. But Madison tells Kevin that she deserves to be marrying a man who is in love with her, and not just as the mother to his children. Now, don't get us wrong, we have nothing against Toby or Kate, but together, they haven't been fun to watch since their early days.

It makes sense that Kate might also find a second chance at love while thriving at her new job, though we've got a long way to go before we even get to that love story considering the fact that she and Toby are currently relatively happy together. Between this wedding, that family gathering at Rebecca's house and grown-up baby Jack and Hailey, there's a lot of ground to cover in the final season. This is not exactly a surprise; when the show was renewed for three more seasons in 2019, THR reported the drama would "likely" end its run afterward. Because the series jumps around in time so much, it was unclear how long it could run.

Eventually the characters would catch up to the futures the show laid out for them, and the story would have to end. "We never set out to make a television series that was going to last 18 seasons, so we have a very direct plan. We have a plan for what we're going to do, and I know what the plan is," series creator Dan Fogelman told THR in April 2019. The show has always been challenging with the plays in time, and we always knew that Season 6 would be epic in terms of the way it jumps time, and even more ambitious than other seasons. Because our audience has been so devoted and I think because, hopefully, we've smartly set up the contained areas where these future timelines live, I think you're going to have a real sense of resolution and completion for this family.

It's the mixed-up VHS tapes of this family's existence that will kind of all coalesce to speak to one another in completion. We have been working tirelessly to set up this rewarding final season to make all the pieces fit together. That's been part of the great benefit of, from the very beginning with the early success of the show, allowing us to kind of know our endgame, and has allowed us to build what we hope will be a very rewarding final season. The final scene of Tuesday's season finale jumped four years ahead to show Kate — gasp! Ever since the shocking time-jump finale of season three, a seed had been planted that Kate and Toby might split up in the future. That sad outcome for one of the couples at the heart of the show was confirmed in the final, time-jumping scene, as Kate is shown readying to marry a man that viewers barely know, her new boss Phillip .

The current timelines that exist in our show are manifold. We have the young period of Jack and Rebecca pre-children and now with babies, they kind of merge into one. And then, in terms of the present-day and future-day storylines, we have a continuation of our main storyline, which would be their 41st year of life next year. And then we have this 10, 15 years later at the house where everybody is gathering and Rebecca is in that bed.

We show Baby Jack grown up as a future musician, et cetera. These are all places that we will traverse next season. Obviously, Chris is going to be a big part of the show next year. So, yes, series regular, or whatever it's called, we owe a lot of him… We're big fans of him on the show. This is obviously a plot point that we've known was coming for quite some time, Kate's second wedding, and we knew the reveal would be at the end of the season. So we'd actually had Chris come down and meet with Chrissy much earlier in the season, under severe testing protocols and everything, so we could kind of put that together and feel them out during such an unusual season.

And as for the decision to have this timeline, which is essentially four years in the future, be Chrissy's second wedding, it's been part of our plan all along from the go. So obviously we've hinted at many times in the immediate future that something was amiss, something was not normal between , and here we are. No matter what happens on Kevin and Madison's big day, we'll still have one more season of This Is Us to look forward to. The sixth and final season of This Is Us is set to premiere in late 2021 or early 2022.

NBC has promised fans that they'll get to watch all 18 episodes uninterrupted. But a four-years-from-now sequence — which viewers were fooled into thinking was present-day Kevin working on his vows — served as a double twist. As it turns out, Kevin wasn't just not getting married to Madison, he wasn't getting married at all. He was prepping his speech at the wedding of his sister, Kate , who was marrying her music teacher boss, Phillip . Shocked viewers had been played like a fiddle, as the episode showcased rising tension between Kate and husband Toby after he secured a job in another city. But instead of giving into division, they pledged their love to each other and vowed to make this long-distance relationship work.

Alright, fellow This Is Us fans, it's time we all broke out a pack of tissues. The show recently announced season 6 will be its final season, and after last night's major plot twist, our hearts are breaking. What's going to happen with our dearest Pearson family? NBC can't just expect us to walk away so quickly from our Big Three!!!

Trust and believe, the emotions are clearly off the charts. When audiences last saw with Pearson family, Kevin and Randall finally addressed their long-standing tensions and disagreements in an emotional episode. And, in terms of what's going on with Kevin, the upcoming batch of episodes will show him adjusting to raising twins with Madison even though the two are no longer together. "We're trying to capture something we haven't done on the show, which is a lovely married couple maybe not making it all the way," he told Entertainment Weekly. "It was something we always knew we were going to attack it in our final season."

I think we can all collectively agree that the Season 5 finale for This Is Us was absolutely bonkers. While the whole wedding day of Kate and Kevin, in and of itself, was ridiculously crazy and there was so much drama, none of us expected that twist at the very end of the show. At the end of the Season 5 finale, we flash forward to five years in the future, and Kate is getting married to someone else, with several other questions popping up as the scene when on.

Chrissy and Sully have known for quite a while, for many seasons, where they are going and where this season was going. So nothing came as a surprise to them… There's so much love there, both between the actors in real life and between the characters on camera that it's difficult when you are trying to tap into this stuff. Our actors are beautiful in that, even if they don't always love a choice I make for their characters, they don't express it to me. I just go back to all the times that I've been at the most beautiful and loving weddings, where nothing could go wrong. And then there you are years later at that person's second wedding. So the journey from A to B is something we really haven't done on this show yet, and I think these two actors are going to have some really meaty stuff to dig into next year.

I think, like everything in our show, we're going to be able to find something difficult and find something beautiful inside it. "This Is Us" set up its sixth and final season with Tuesday's Season 5 finale episode, which dropped one big bombshell on the Pearson family themselves and another on us viewers. It's hard to believe that we're so close to the end of the smash-hit NBC drama starring Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz and Justin Hartley. In just 18 episodes, we'll all learn what's really going on in that famous flash-forward scene and what the future holds for the Big Three.

In the season 5 finale, we got a better idea of what's in store next when we saw Kevin involved in a construction company called "Big Three Construction," Randall being featured in a magazine as a "rising star," and Kate getting married to another man. We're definitely all going to take a long nap after this last season. But I think definitely those two periods are periods we're going to spend more time in. Obviously one was just established, but the other one has been used more for answers to questions, but we haven't lived there a lot. We'll be doing more of that in this upcoming season, which is always the plan, as opposed to having maybe three or four past story lines in one episode, we could wind up with episodes that have two or three or four future and present story lines. The Season 5 finale installment, "The Adirondacks" confirmed several aspects of the Pearson family's future, from Kevin's next steps to a major twist for Kate's relationship.

Below, we're breaking down all of the wildest revelations made in the episode that left viewers asking more questions, so beware of spoilers ahead. Hence, season 6 of 'This Is Us' has the huge responsibility to bridge the past with the future, and shall bring the story to its natural end. Dan Fogelman dropped a clue about the sentimental nature of season 6 to Entertainment Weekly, saying, "There's one storyline that's one of our stakes in the ground for season six that when I speak about it, my eyes start welling up with tears. And I'm not a crier." Thus, fans should be ready for an emotional ride in the final season. NBC revealed that This Is Us wouldn't return for its sixth and final season until midseason, which meant a 2022 premiere date.

Even though this means a long hiatus, NBC said that the final season would be a "largely uninterrupted run." The final season will consist of 18 episodes. It was announced back in May 12, 2021 thatThis Is Usis ending with season 6. Though the news came as a disappointment to many fans, it's not a surprise. Going back to May 2019, when NBC renewedThis Is Us for three seasons, reports indicated that the Emmy-winning drama would not go beyond those three additional seasons – which series creator Dan Fogelman backed up in public remarks. On the positive side, for viewers who aren't quite ready to say goodbye, Fogelman has also said that he's grateful to endThis Is Uson his own termswith season 6.

And, regarding the ending, Fogelman pointed out that he's planned that out since the very beginning of the show. Given its non-linear storytelling, This Is Us is able to continue building on the Pearsons' history as they bring in characters from the main cast's past. That includes Jack's estranged brother, Nicky, who reconnected with the family after decades of being isolated. There's also Randall's biological father, William, who passed away in season 1. But most importantly, it allows the show to continue featuring Jack who died back when the Big Three kids were in their teens.

However, as much as This Is Us has explored the past, it's also jumping way ahead into the future — particularly on Rebecca's death bed. Not much has been revealed about this specific timeline but the series has been teasing with glimpses of it in the last several seasons. Originally, Season 5 was scheduled to debut Nov. 10, one week after the U.S. election, since Nov. 3 was Election Day. But with Thanksgiving practically coming on the heels of that, NBC pushed the series forward to the final Tuesday in October, giving fans a double episode, then a week off for Election Day, and then two more episodes before the holiday break.

Since the series began so late into fall, there is no Thanksgiving-themed installment to air on the holiday week. Instead, the show's six-week break will start early, with no episode on Nov. 24. "Chris is going to be a big part of the show next year... We owe a lot of him," creator Dan Fogelman told a handful of reporters, including ET, of the twist.

The sixth and final season premieres at the top of the new year. It already seems like it will be the most emotional season of the show yet, as we follow Rebecca's battle with Alzheimer's. We'll see how the Pearsons deal with their mother being unable to remember vital parts of their history while also trying to make new memories and forge new paths. And, in one of the series' signature switcheroos, there's a surprise future wedding revealed at the end, a moment that will keep fans talking until the show's final season, which premieres in January. All of those timelines are going to be brought to completion and explained.

There will be no looming questions when we get to the end of next season, everything will be resolved. You can't always claim that 100% of your audience is going to like every single decision you make for the characters, but I don't think anything will be left on the table. So all those locations you've been to, all those future timelines we've been to, they will all get resolutions. The cliff-hanger in the last minutes of the final episode is lame beyond description. I should have gone with my gut and quit after season 4. The first 3 seasons were solid, but from 4 onwards the quality of the writing just decreased.

They traded believable characters and well thought out story lines for cringe worthy artificial drama. In her bones, Madison always knew Kevin wasn't in love with her. The fifth-season finale of the NBC family drama ended with a surprising reveal that has been in the plans for "quite a while," says Dan Fogelman. "There will be no looming questions when we get though the end of next season. Everything will be resolved." While fans were extremely saddened by this news, they can't help hope for a surprise reboot in the future. The production on the sixth season began in September 2021 and is set to conclude in a few months.

'This Is Us' season 6 is set to premiere on January 4, 2022.It will most likely have 18 episodes like its predecessors. However, Dan did admit to EW that Kevin and Sophie's relationship doesn't feel "resolved" yet. Alexandra Breckinridge revealed to Us Weekly that she "did do a scene where they did old makeup, but I don't think it made it to the show." It could still be possible that Sophie pops up in the final season.

This Is Us Season 5 Finale In the last few years, Alexandra hasn't been able to return to the show as easily because of Virgin River scheduling conflicts. This is my favourite show of all times and I was so looking forward to watching the new Season to escape the current doom and gloom .... Well, the opening episode has NO new storyline or development whatsoever and instead it is all about reminding us of the Pandemic and BLM issues in the most forced and tedious way. These are irrelevant to the continuation of the previous plots, they feel completely forced into the storyline and all is very poorly acted. Over the last 4 seasons none of the current affairs were written into the script because it is mostly time-independent with present day, flash-backs and flash-forwards all intertwined. To top it all off my favourite character, Randall, has now become selfish, arrogant and wallowing in self-pity.

I really really do hope the writers correct this trajectory as I can't bear to say bye to the Big Three. "Since the very beginning, I've had a strong feeling of where I want this to end. And it won't simply involve the series finale, but it involves the final season. It's moments. It's images. It's scenes. It's ideas," he tells ET. Over the past few seasons, we've slowly been fed clues to the Pearson family's future, but there are still several questions that need answering in the remaining episodes. Why haven't we seen Kate in the big flash-forward yet?

We just know that there is so much more drama left to come. The fan-favorite family drama will return to its Tuesday time slot of 9 p.m. The network also confirmed that like Seasons 1 through 4, Season 6 will have 18 episodes.

During the premiere, the cast teased there would be another trilogy of episodes that focuses on the Big Three as well as a Jack-centric episode about his mother's death. "This Is Us" ended its fifth season with a major cliffhanger. The NBC drama, which will end its run with Season 6 next year, already had a ton of plotlines to tie up, but that didn't stop producers from throwing a few more twists into the mix. The wedding of Kevin Pearson and Madison Simons was heavily teased ahead of the episode, titled "The Adirondacks," but side storylines also helped fill the finale episode. Meanwhile, This Is Us Season 5 Episode 16, "The Adirondacks," will focus on the Pearson family on Kevin and Madison's wedding day.

In the previous episode on May 18, many fans were uncertain about the union. But we'll see whether the couple's love story will be one for the ages on May 25. The episode opens with Kevin practicing a speech in front of the mirror on the day of the wedding. In a long-ago timeline, his mother, Rebecca , plans to watch a VHS recording of the infamous "Dynasty" wedding massacre, only to find out that Jack taped a Pittsburgh Pirates game over it. Her anger at her husband, while completely understandable, upsets the children, so Jack and Rebecca pull out the film projector to show them their wedding before staging a impromptu family wedding in their living room.

Switching back to the present timeline in the episode, Madison called off her wedding with Kevin. Since the very beginning, I have had a strong feeling about where I want this to end. And it won't just involve the series finale, but it involves the final season, its moments, its images, its scenes, its ideas.

I have a list of them that I wanted to tell in a pretty specific order, and I'm grateful to be able to end it that way. There are less popular shows that have not ended on their own terms. It's a real gift to be able to have been thinking about those images, those scenes, those literal lines of dialogue and be able to execute them the way you want to. You can't really ask for anything more in the modern state of television. Obviously, there's shaping that, but there's images and our cast knows many of them, and some of them have been shot. So yes, I'm excited to be able to end it the way we've talked about ending it since the first season of the show.