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This week,This Is Usremembers what its great at, and we are truly living once more.
Songbird Road: Part 1 feels every bit the continuation of the stellar Vietnam from earlier this season.
Now its a part of the Big Threes story, too.
The Big Three decide to go on a road trip to Bradford, PA. Mama Pearson sits it out.
That sad, sad woman deserves all the cookies!
postcard at his home, hes had enough.
To never contact him at all, really.
Its clear Nicky has never recovered from what happened in Vietnam.
Hes fidgety, unkempt, and he cant even make a glass of Nesquik correctly.
Before long, Nicky needs to bring up what happened.
He is basically begging to explain, to apologize.
But Jack wont hear it.
He put the war behind him and he refuses to go back there.
And with that, Jacks gone.
We head back to the fishing village, where Nicky is back on drugs.
you’re able to guess what follows.
After a grenade mishap, Nicky jumps out of the boat in time, the little boy does not.
Its awful and sad, even forThis Is Us.
Its extra-upsetting because we see that Nicky had no ill will toward the child.
It was an accident.
But Jack doesnt see that.
Thats Jacks breaking point.
He tells Nicky hes done, and it’s possible for you to see he means it.
When Nicky is medevacked out, a shell of a person, Jack cant even look at him.
So imagine listening to that story come out of your not-dead uncles mouth while sitting in his dumpster trailer.
The trauma on this show knows no bounds.
If youre trying to decide who the saddestThis Is Uscharacter is, Nicky Pearson must be in consideration.
At this point, youre asking for the pain.
Nicky is a man in complete devastation.
), it is the eldest Pearson who decides that they cant just leave their uncle like that.
After much deliberation, their father made a right and went back to his life in Pittsburgh.
The Big Three make a right and head back to Songbird Road.
Remember when I said that thing about trauma?
Yeah, it applies here, too.
Jack does come clean to Rebecca about going to seesomeonefrom the war, he just omits certain details.
When she offers suggestions on how to get help, he ends the conversation.
Hes done talking about it.
Jack walks off, but stops and stands alone in the door frame.
Hes forever a man trying to keep his demons at bay.
She never pressed him about Vietnam and maybe she should have.
Now she wants the truth.
A Rebecca and Nicky meeting will bea thing.
I loved Rebecca chiding Randall for his mind blown jokes while they discussed the news of Nicky.
What a mom thing to do!
Theres so much chemistry and history there.
More of this, always.
Forgive us, Miguel.
R & B Properties is back and better than ever.
Stronger than ever, those two!
Beth Pearson is more than just a name, its an attitude.
