u/JollyJellyfish21

Just finished S5 episode where Toby has lost his job and unloads on Kevin over the sushi dinner for being condescending with his generosity about money since they’re all family. And Toby says “family” is their two nuclear families, not the extended family. And Kate sits silently and later Kevin accepts this definition in his convo with Madison.

I wish Kate or Kevin had pushed back. There are lots of big extended families who think of themselves the way Kevin described. This show is so good about all the different ways family is made through adoption, reconciliation (with Nicky), remarriage, even low/no contact (with Jack’s and Rebecca’s parents). But somehow raising cousins together in the same city is off limits?

I think they could have told the male-breadwinner emotional wounds story fine without this additional bit.

Wow, what an epic fight between Kevin and Randall. I really have come to despise Randall; he’s SO arrogant and self-absorbed. Sterling K. Brown is amazing for playing a character who I found so lovable in S1 who I am just horrified by now.

This might be the best show about dysfunctional families I’ve ever seen.

This season finale was so good! (Except the tenuous OB connection to Madison was meh.)

First time watcher, just got through the episode where Randall asks Beth to consider putting her dance career dream on hold (S3 E14). Man I was a Randall super fan end of S1 but I am over his self-absorption now. Disappointed!

First-time watcher, in early episodes of S3. I’m struck through Jack’s death and aftermath how few friends Rebecca has to lean on. They lived in a suburban neighborhood with lots of kids with a star high school QB son. How are there not meal trains and people helping to look in on the kids?

I don’t mean that level of detail in the script per se, but the show is written as showing this mom totally alone with these 3 teenagers. Maybe it’s meant to evoke how isolating the loss feels. But it strikes me that for such a sprawling show about family and relationships these episodes feel like Rebecca and the kids have no one.