Warning: This post contains spoilers for the finale of This Is Us.
We did it, colleagues obsessed with This Is Us: We’ve reached the final flash of the NBC series.
As those of you who have watched the popular drama for years know, the Pearson saga has often gone beyond today’s storyline to give us a glimpse into the future. One group of these flashes was related to Kate’s wedding to Philip. Another deals with the last hours of Rebecca’s life, which culminated in last week’s episode.
And a third deals with Kate and Toby’s son, Jack. Flash Forward, which began at the premiere of Season 4, revealed that Jack grew up to be an extremely successful singer / songwriter (so much so that we took to calling him Rockstar Jack to distinguish him from his grandfather Jack Pearson).
Subsequent episodes showed us other snippets of Jack’s adult life, from Thanksgiving dinner, which proved that Pearson’s holiday traditions lived until the day his wife, Lucy, gave birth to their daughter, Hope.
And the finale of Tuesday’s series gives us another (fleeting) look at Jack’s life: this time, he and Lucy push Hope on a swing, edited by other members of the Pearson family who do this with their children. (Read the full summary here, then be sure to check out our post-death chat with series creator Dan Vogelman.)
Why such a light touch on the flash button forward in the finale, you wonder? “We never planned to live hard in 2040 or anything like that this year,” Vogelman told reporters during a conversation Tuesday. “Obviously there are more stories to tell in the lives of adults [The Big Three’s] children and grandchildren, but that was never the goal of the series. Every book has to end. ”
And that concludes our ever-expanding coverage of Jack’s adult life, described in the gallery above. In it you will find visualizations, fragments of dialogues, clues and everything else we thought you might know – including information from interviews with stars and producers of the NBC series.
Scroll through the gallery above – or go directly here – then click on the comments section with your thoughts on the latest episode of the series!
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