This Is Us
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They are just so sad!
Everything is SO HEAVY and SO MUCH.
It is very much the opposite of how theUncle Nicky adventure ended, praise be!
(You may recall she broke her hip not too long ago, so Beth is concerned.)
Shes a pusher who wants her children to work hard and excel in their chosen paths.
Beth has never been able to stand up to her.
Little Bethany Clark wants to be a ballerina.
Carol agrees, as long as Bethany promises to work hard and become the best.
No pressure or anything.
And so she goes.
But things do not go according to plan.
Her teacher (Goran Visnjic, in a role too small to be a one-off, no?)
suggests taking up a different dance style, but no, shes a ballerina.
Until now, that is.
Oh boy, you guys, is this A SCENE.
Beth basically blames her mother for stealing the joy from her life by making her quit dance.
She was free before, and then she was not.
He never took life seriously, she took it too seriously.
They evened each other out.
He gave me that air that you said I dont have on my own, she tells her daughter.
Anyone else getting Beth and Randall vibes here?
Randall, a dramatic dreamer, Beth, a realist.
I mean, time is a flat circle and all that, you know?
We are all crying, but only Beth and Carol get to hold hands.
Thanks to our handy-dandy flash-forward, we know her dreams work out.
Has a Pearson ever felt so free?
This Is the Rest
TEEN RANDALL SIGHTING.
He is smitten, she pays him no mind.
Teen Beth feels guilty over her fathers death.
Man, she should really talk to Kate Pearson.
Carol seems like a great principal equal parts terrifying and concerned.
The sister-cousins getting high in the laundry room was excellent.
Though, now what I need to see is Carol giving Zoe The Business for dating Kevin Pearson.
She must have thoughts.
