[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “This Is Us” Season 2, Episode 14, “Super Bowl Sunday.”]
At first, it seemed like they were going to get it over with; as “This Is Us” began its much-hyped, if less anticipated, post-Super Bowl episode, Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) woke up to a house awash with flames and it seemed, ever so briefly, like creator Dan Fogelman & Co. were going to get the self-perpetuated question of “how he died” out of the way so the series could finally focus on “why it matters.”
Instead, “This Is Us” regressed to its worst tendencies. Sure, it dwelled on the macabre details to produce overwrought melodrama, but that was expected. At this point, the show had to embrace the bigness of Jack’s death in order to justify its lengthy tease. But what it didn’t need to do was kill Jack twice. It didn’t need to become “Twist Is Us” again. It didn...
At first, it seemed like they were going to get it over with; as “This Is Us” began its much-hyped, if less anticipated, post-Super Bowl episode, Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) woke up to a house awash with flames and it seemed, ever so briefly, like creator Dan Fogelman & Co. were going to get the self-perpetuated question of “how he died” out of the way so the series could finally focus on “why it matters.”
Instead, “This Is Us” regressed to its worst tendencies. Sure, it dwelled on the macabre details to produce overwrought melodrama, but that was expected. At this point, the show had to embrace the bigness of Jack’s death in order to justify its lengthy tease. But what it didn’t need to do was kill Jack twice. It didn’t need to become “Twist Is Us” again. It didn...
- 2/5/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
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