He went on to say that though finale viewers may only be able to focus on the heartbreak of Kevin and Madison’s unsuccessful wedding and Kate and Toby’s implied breakup, it was important to the show’s writing staff that the hour ended on a hopeful note.
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“Obviously, Chris is going to be a big part of the show next year,” the executive producer confirmed, adding that Geere will be promoted to series regular in Season 6. The hour also inferred that Phillip would have a greater presence in This Is Us‘ sixth and final season. “We hinted at, many times in the deeper future, that something was not normal between and ,” Fogelman said. And though series creator Dan Fogelman didn’t directly address the question of Kate’s existence during a call with reporters Tuesday, he did say that having Chrissy Metz’s character get remarried was “part of our plan all along, from go. But it’s enough to rekindle our curiosity about exactly how the family’s future is going to play out. It’s not the most substantial of evidence, we admit. Maybe it’s Kate they’re referencing - and we would understand why, if they’re divorced by this point, Toby would feel weird about being included in a Very Emotional Pearson Moment - which would mean that Kate is still alive at that point in the story. And while we always thought that the “she” referenced when Toby and Randall talk during that flash-forward (“She wants you to be there, Tobe,” Randall tells him) referred to Rebecca, perhaps we were mistaken.
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( Read a full recap of the episode and check out our deep dive into the new flash-forward.)Īnd this plays into one of the show’s two other flash-forwards - specifically, t he one that shows Rebecca on what seems to be her deathbed at the house in rural Pennsylvania. We were led to believe that she and Toby had divorced sometime after Madison and Kevin’s aborted nuptials. The finale’s brief foray into the future showed us the morning of Kate’s second wedding, to her music-school co-worker Phillip (played by You’re the Worst‘s Chris Geere).
TVLine Items: Greg Vaughan's Days Return, Mary J. TV Ratings: AGT Dominates Tuesday in Return, New Amsterdam RisesĪmerica's Got Talent Premiere: Who Got the First Golden Buzzer of Season 16? Why hasn’t Kate shown up in a substantial way in the other flash-forwards? Is she ( gulp) no longer with us? And in doing so, the show might have answered a question that’s plagued viewers since it started playing around with its timelines a few seasons back: Just when we thought This Is Us might end Season 5 without taking us on a little time hop, the last two minutes of Tuesday’s finale flashed the action forward to four years from now.