Sunday 5 July 2020

This Is Us - Season Four (2019 Dan Fogelman)

We were delighted to find this on Amazon Prime. It's one of the all time greats. Begins audaciously by introducing three sets of characters we've never seen before - a war veteran with a drink problem (Jennifer Morrison), a teenager with a baby (Asante Blackk), and a blind musician (Blake Stadnik). The latter story is as clever as the pilot, in which we don't realise that Jack and Rebecca's story is a seventies flashback - in the new one, we're actually in the future. The way it cross cuts between time zones is incredibly dexterous, the Enoish music a major plus, the acting perfect down to the smallest role. Keeps prompting wet eye moments. Griffin Dunne is proving to be good value as the estranged uncle.

Phylicia Rashad, who Q correctly identifies as from The Cosby Show

Justin Hartley

Hannah Ziele

Griffin Dunne

Two cross-cut golf stories show us how Jack had run-in with his father-in-law, acknowledged Randall's feelings of discrimination and how adult Randall pretended he was no good at the game to get in with a politician.

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