#This Is Us spoilers

[tvandfilm]

Your grandson is gonna be named after a man I never met. But I know him. 'Cause I know you. It's not pointless. 

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[romanarose]

"Comfort Show"

Steven Grant x Reader

Summary: Steven has tocomfort you after your comfort show.

Warnings: *SPOILERS FOR THE LAST FEW EPISODES OF THIS IS US!!!* Dont read if you havn't seen the last 3 episodes but want to!!! Mentions of tv show character deaths. Crying but not actually sad, just sad over a show.

A/n: Inspired by the time I walked out of my room after an episode of This Is Us, bawling my eyes out to find my mommy is the living room, looking at me like :0 she asked if it was one of my shows or if something really happened. I said it was just a show and she let me explain the last 6 or however many seasons of this show lolololol

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You heard the sound of the key turning in the apartment, and knew Steven would be in shortly and very distressed at your crying, but you couldn’t help yourself, you continued sobbing uncontrollably with hands over your eyes on the couch as the Hulu home screen advertised other options to quell you.

“Hello love!” A cheery Steven walked in the door, face undoubtedly falling as he took in your crying. “Oh dear, oh no, what is it now?” He said, setting the groceries down on the counter and he rushed to you, wrapped up in a blanket on the couch. “What’s happened?” Gently, Steven takes your hands to reveal your puffy red eyes and blotchy face, you’d been crying for a little while now.

You look at his worried face and feel a little foolish, and laugh a bit. “It’s not a big-” 

“No, no don’t do that, you don’t have to mitigate it”

You laugh again, you did have a tendency to act like huge things were no big deal, or invalidate your feelings; this was not one of those times. “No, no, baby it’s actually so stupid” But you keep crying. “I watched more of This is Us”

Visibly, Steven relaxed, letting go of your hand in favor of placing it over his heart, sighing in relief as sat back on the couch. “Oh god love, darling you startled me.”

You feel bad, going to embrace Steven as he gained his breath again. “I’m sorry Steven” You said sincerely, and when Steven looked at you, it was once again with concern.

“Sweetheart, you look terribly upset still, I thought you agreed not to watch it until one of us were here, you knew damn well this was going to happen!” Steven chastised, but there was no real malice in his voice. 

You sniffle, tears welling up again. “I thought she’d die in the last episode, I was going to wait for you to watch that, but they did it early!” You break down crying, Steven taking you into his arms.

“God, no wonder you’re a mess!” Steven didn’t watch the show avidly, but he’d sit in on episodes here and there, and listened intently as you explained things from your show.

You mumbled something into his chest he couldn’t hear. “What’s that, lovely?”

Lifting your head off his chest, you repeat yourself. “Miquel died before Rebecca, his heart condition” and there, you were, ugly sobbing again.

“Oh no, not Miguel.” Steven laments. Again, he didn’t watch the show as much as you, but Miguel was his favorite.

Steven continued to hold you as you cried, and lamented to you, “Why do you watch this show when all it does is make you cry?”

“It’s my comfort show…” you mutter.

Steven laughs a bit, pulling you off him and heading to the kitchen. “You don’t seem very comforted, darling.”

“I am… so happy right now.” You joke through tears.

“I’m sure you are. How about we go visit your grandma this weekend? I know This is Us always makes you emotional about her.”

Smiling at how well he knew you, you nodded. “That would be great, Steven.”

When Steven brought you some hot tea, just how you like it, “How about we watch we real comfort show to cheer you up. New Girl? Or Are you in a movie mood”

You consider for a moment. “Star Wars Episode thr-”

“No!” Steven bursts into a laugh. “You know damn well that one always makes you cry at the end!”

“I won’t cry! I promise! I just wanna see Anakin’s pretty face!”

Steven sighed. “Fine, if you promise you won’t cry.”

By the time ‘YOU WERE MY BROTHER ANAKIN’ played out of the screen, you were sobbing again, muttering how it didn’t have to be this way. Steven was holding you under his left arm, ordering pizza with his right hand. No more “Comfort” movies or shows tonight.

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Anywayyyyyy just some Steven cuteness <3

My masterlsit links got FUCKED UP bc tumblr so everything is under construction so please be patient with me XD

should have another piece out this week, i have something planned for Marc for Passover, a bit with him cleaning out his dad's house an dreflecting over things. Will serve as a epilogue for my Seattle series, but not necessary to read Seattle for this <# if u arent on the Seattle tag list and are interested, let me know!

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[inejqhafa]

THIS IS US (2016-2022)

I mean that’s what we’re doing just... collecting these little moments. We don’t recognize them when we’re in them because well... we’re too busy looking forward. But then we spend the rest of our lives looking back... trying to remember... trying to be back inside them. Strange the things you remember. 

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[whitefluffyyeti]

This is us “Us”

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[imbadatusernames666]

started This Is Us for the first time and i am dying bc milo looks so sad and i knew it was rough but i thought it would just be other people being sad that his character died but MILO IS SAD TOO I AM UNWELL WHY DID THEY DO THIS TO HIM

#this is us #this is us spoilers #but maybe not i feel like most people know this #i just want him to be happy i love him #milo ventimiglia

[wh0re-behavi0r]

This is Us Final Scene

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[briwatchesbadtv]

Beth's worst-case-scenario of Randall being him driving around going to other people's parents funerals had me ROLLING.

Maybe my favorite moment of the whole series right there.

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[madlilsongbird]

Im gonna be honest…i liked the episode…but it didnt feel like an end.

Last weeks episode felt more final than this one. I get the intention. Its left feeling open to show that life goes on but it was still lacking something for me

Maybe one last jump forward with the next generation and all their kids and the big three super elderly? Have that cut between the past scene and the post funeral scene?

I dont know it just didnt quite hit me the way i thought a series this emotional would.

#this is us nbc #this is us spoilers #this is us #tiu #tiu season 6 #tiu spoilers #loved it but a little disappointed all the same #honestly kinda the same feeling i had with shameless

[paddyruzek]

Deja is naming her son William and I'm not ok. 😭

#this is us #this is us spoilers

[haberdashing]

so, i just finished watching the last episode of this is us (i know, i'm late to the game), and now that i can confidently say that they didn't address this, let me say the one thing i wish the show had gone into more:

randall's run for senator.

not how he wins it, because c'mon, randall pearson can do anything he puts his mind to, we know that. and not the nitty-gritty political stuff either, that's not really the kind of thing this is us does.

but what this is us does do, but didn't in this case, is go over how such a big life change affects randall and the family.

show me more of randall weighing the pros and cons of running--not just how it would affect his mother, but how it would affect his entire family.

show me the randall pearson family sitting down to unwind at the end of the day with some mindless tv only to be shown an ad for randall's campaign--or worse, an attack ad by the opposition.

(show me randall taping his campaign ad, second-guessing his every move and fretting about how he's taping something that will be on display to millions of tv watchers, and then calling kevin and half-jokingly saying that acting's harder than it looks)

show me tess trying to decide whether to go to homecoming with alex, or her latest not-cis-male beau, and fretting hard about how it might affect her father's campaign because obviously a senatorial candidate having an openly gay daughter still isn't a value-neutral fact. show me tess telling her father she'll hide her relationship and her identity away until after the election, and randall hugging her and telling her that that's not what he wants, of course not, she just needs to be who she is and the rest will work itself out.

show me deja writing college admissions essays about going from taking care of herself as a child to being the daughter of a senator: not just a blase rags-to-riches story, but talking about the different freedoms and limitations of both, then reflecting on how college fits into that same scheme of freedoms and limitations.

show me their other daughter... hell, show me their other daughter period, i don't even remember her name off-hand! but she's gotta have her own story, if this show taught us anything it's that everyone has their own story. and how is that affected by all this?

show me how this all affects beth's dance studio. do supporters of the opposition candidate drop their dance classes en masse when randall announces his candidacy? do people come there trying to suck up to senator pearson by way of his wife? (not that beth would entertain that nonsense for one minute, of course, but they don't know that.)

show me randall driving in to d.c. does he drive by howard, where he almost matriculated a lifetime ago, and reflect on what almost was and what might have been? hell, has he even been in d.c. since then? and that's gotta make him think of jack, too, who brought him there back then, right? show me that.

show me randall's inevitable moment of doubt just before he starts his first day as senator, and beth talking him through it, reminding him how amazing he is and how he'll do just as well here.

show me how the family adjusts to randall living in d.c. it sounds like he's gone several nights a week at least, and while philly to d.c. isn't the worst senatorial commute, it's not chump change either. how does that change the family dynamic?

show me the handwritten note from a black girl in a white family who says she now has the role model she always dreamed of, show me randall's campaign manager mentioning that his openness with his own adoption and that of deja has led to a statistically significant uptick in adoptions in the state of pennsylvania.

show me randall tearing up, and when a concerned beth asks if the stress is getting to him, him telling her that they're tears of joy as he realizes that he's really making a positive difference in the world the way he always dreamed he would.

show me more of that.

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[thesoundasitfell]

I made it through 90% of this finale without crying and then they got me with that last Big Three cheer. I am wrecked.

#this is us #this is us spoilers

[cogentranting]

I do have to say that I feel like Kevin got shafted this last season. The show would just not let him have success in any form (in a meaningful on screen way). 

First of all his career-- the arc that started Kevin off was that he felt like no one ever took him seriously and that he wanted to do more with his career. But Kevin’s career peaks in season TWO. And even then, with only moderate success. And it’s very much framed as a beginning. And then he does a movie that’s a flop and gets stuck to where no one wants to hire him and then ends up back where he started, stuck on The Manny which he hated to start with. And he’s stuck in that for something like 7 to 10 years. And we get no other word about his career. He says in the finale that he’s going to step back from acting so that does like he was doing other things but we hear nothing about it. 

And him not having a lot of success in the way he wants would be one thing, if the case weren’t so different for Randall and Kate.  Kate gets a job at a music school. Kate becomes a teacher. Kate designs a music curriculum for blind students. Kate is founding music schools for the blind internationally. That’s a massive success.  Randall switches careers. Randall runs for city council. Randall is a beloved city councilman. Randall becomes senator. Randall runs for president. 

They do give him success with the nonprofit. In theory. We barely see that. We don’t really know how successful it was. That’s a great character beat for Kevin, but not really the same thing as his career. It’s more of a separate thing he did. 

And him taking the Manny reboot and focusing more on the nonprofit are both framed as Kevin giving up his career aspirations and caring more about his family instead. Which is a great story arc. But again, not really one we see.  Because up until about half way through the final season, Kevin’s family is an extremely contentious relationship with Madison. And Kevin’s kids get no development. Tess, Annie and Deja are all fully formed characters. Jack gets a personality and some focus. Hailey, Tess, Deja, and especially Jack all get glimpses of their futures (we see all of their careers and Deja and Jack’s spouses and their children). Nick and Franny I don’t think ever speak. Or if they do it’s a throwaway background line.  And Kevin and Sophie I think are a great love story. But Kevin doesn’t get to be married happily to Sophie until he’s... 50? And again. we. don’t. see. that. We see them get together and I thought they handled that really well. But after that they have like two scenes with actual speaking on screen together because they waited so long to actually let them be together.  So if you’re going to take a story about Kevin wanting to find more fulfillment in his career and transition that to him finding fulfillment in his family instead that’s great. But you have to make his family actually matter and not make them the least developed family of the three. 

And again, Randall and Kate are not forced into the same choice of either family or career. Randall has had a happy marriage and kids since the beginning of the show. Kate gets together with her husband (of the majority of the show) right away in season 1, is married and has kids halfway through. She does get divorced but she gets her new husband set up in the same episode (and I have other issues with the handling of that). 

And Randall and Kate are allowed more substantial growth. I do think Kevin’s character regresses in the last two seasons (which is very frustrating to me) but even without that he is constantly held to account for any screwup, and up to within the last five episodes we still have people talking about how irresponsible he is. Randall and Kate both have major failings they’re never forced to address and don’t receive anywhere near the same amount of criticism. 

To be clear, it’s not that I think Randall and Kate should be less successful or criticized more, I just think Kevin should have been given at least one area of his life where he was allowed to be successful in some way that we saw before the last 5 episodes. 

I do really like the concept of the non-profit I just feel like it wasn’t developed enough. And I really like the episode of the Night Before the Wedding. And I really like that he ends up being the main caretaker of Rebecca at the end. I thought that was a nice full circle idea. But each of those last two things are isolated within a single episode-- they don’t represent a fuller arc. And they could have! Because I feel like both those ideas connect really really strongly to where we were at in the story at the end of season FOUR. Because season four built a lot on Kevin connecting to other people and meeting their emotional needs. I think that’s where the heavy Cassidy development came in. And that’s when Kevin started spending a lot of time with Rebecca leading to the fight with Randall. If there was a clear consistent through-line from those season 4 ideas, to the ending of season 6, it would work great. Kevin’s growth wouldn’t be as stunted, it would more clearly demonstrate the shifting of his priorities. Those ideas would be more fully developed. But season five and the first half of season 6 really do very very little (if anything) with those ideas. 

I don’t hate the ending by any means. I just find myself dissatisfied. 

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[chaneajoyyy]

Time for the series finale🤧😭

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[startingfires]

this is us has got to stop making me cry

#just watched the miguel episode #i am not ok #so it goes playing in the background really got to me #this is us spoilers

[leossmoonn]

Is Rebecca in the train a hallucination? A dream?

#sara watches this is us #this is us spoilers

[sambergscott]

the speed. with which i hit the spacebar. when she said william. oh my fucking god.

#THIS SHOW!!!!!!!!!! #RIGHT TIL THE END JUST. DESTROYS ME #this is us #this is us spoilers