This Is Us’ Sterling K. Brown Takes Us Inside Randall’s Catharsis in the Lake (and the Choice to Show a Little ‘Cake’)

Warning: This post contains spoilers from Tuesday’s This Is Us. Randall finishes off Tuesday’s This Is Us with some hard-won peace: Finally, he — and we — know exactly why his birth mother, Laurel, never tried to find him. In short: Her overdose following his birth led to her going to jail for five years, […]

This Is Us: The Mystery of Randall’s Mom’s Whereabouts Is Solved

This Is Us sure loves doling out its revelations in bite-sized pieces, doesn’t it? Tuesday’s episode answered one major question about Randall’s mother, Laurel: Sadly, she’s no longer alive, having passed away in 2015. Make no mistake: That news is a huge blow, both to Randall and all of us who mocked the story loophole but still […]

This Is Us’ Sterling K. Brown Breaks Down Randall’s Rocky Start at Therapy: ‘He Can No Longer Pretend’

If it seemed like This Is Us‘ Randall was spoiling for a fight the moment he sat down in his therapist’s office Tuesday, series star Sterling K. Brown says, well, he was.This week’s episode spent a significant amount of time on how the city councilman did not want to address his anxiety, his feelings about […]

This Is Us: Here’s Why Randall’s Therapist Was Hidden For Most of Ep

RELATED STORIES This Is Us‘ decision to obscure the face of Randall’s therapist for most of Tuesday’s episode prompted a steady chorus of “WTF?!” (as in “Where’s the Face?!”) on social media. Viewers did eventually catch a glimpse of Dr. Leigh (and her portrayer, Pamela Adlon), but the big reveal was held until the hour’s […]