I must begin this review with the following statement: there could be no other end than this. This end was the sweetest, most complete and most conclusive that anyone who followed this beautiful story and this great family could have wished. It couldn't have been a turnaround or a stunning punch line. The This Is Us series finale was exactly what a series finale should be: a conclusion. In their bed, Rebecca and Jack said whatever was most relevant, they explained that they have succeeded, that Rebecca has succeeded, that their children are happy and fulfilled, that they will remember their mother and their father. That the image of a family is the first that cherishes and excites us. This Is Us was able to bring to light this lasting memory of our first home to everyone. The smell, the image, the memory, our past, our future, our life. Us. The final episode was perfectly what it should be, in no way this episode should be explosive, full of twists and fast with breathless scenes. It proposed the introspection of each, the summary of each, the memory of each and the synthesis of the life of this small family around which all these adorable characters revolved during these decades. If you watch it again and listen to it, you will literally catch a life moral in every dialogue.
At the end of this episode, I not only felt that this story ended, that Jack and Rebecca had accomplished their task of parenting, or that Kevin, Kate and Randall had accomplished their life, and are full of ambition for their future. No, I felt that each dialogue applied to my life, the one I had, the one I lead now and the one I will lead in the future. All these dialogues from everyone pierced me. The series finale of This Is Us is a balm on everyone's life. A balm on each of our lives, our past, our present, our future, our love, our family, our friends, and above all, a balm on death, which without it, would not allow life to exist.
In this way, as respectfully, politely and kindly as possible, I strongly consider that anyone who criticizes this episode, as not being up to a series finale, or considering the episode to be long, boring and he offered too many scenes in the past, I doubt very much that these people understood the whole point of the thing: a real conclusion, an introspection, a balm on life.
On the other hand, for anyone considering that the series left several unresolved elements, it seems important to mention that this episode was not designed to solve all the mysteries; since they were all already resolved, and had been for several episodes. I believed for several years that the series would give all its answers at the true end of the last episode, but I realized very quickly during the course of the last season, that This Is Us was much more brilliant than that, this series gave us this balm on life, that's what This Is Us was, and that's what the series finale was able to put forward without hesitation and with shine.
This episode didn't have to be emotionally destructive or some kind of emotional roller coaster, it had to be just what it was to perfection. I cannot thank Dan Folgeman enough for creating this story and for encouraging his team to bring us this wonderful and incredible story, which I will definitely be listening to again in the years to come.
"It's quite something, isn't it? Dan Folgeman's This Is Us."
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