This Is Us: Forty: Part Two (2020)
Season 5, Episode 2
5/10
It's not political, it's the ending that's the problem.
25 April 2021
Apparently there are only 2 reviewers with any darn sense. Just because the show takes up the reality of BLM, doesn't make it "political". And it fits perfectly well into the plot line for Randall all along where he's struggled with being in a trans-racial family.

He's not hating his family or rejecting them like some are saying just because he calls Kate out on it. He dropped everything like he always does and ran over to the cabin to help with his mom. He clearly loves them. But that doesn't mean it wasn't a challenge for him to grow up black in a mostly white world where that part of him was mostly ignored and, in the case of William, purposely hidden from him. And the fact that he grew up more privileged, just makes him more conflicted about it. If you can't understand any of this then you obviously have some self-reflection to do.

BUT what is completely ridiculous is the ending. NO. Just no. This is clearly some new stupid thing they've come up with that was never originally in the plan and can in no way be realistic. No matter how that situation plays out, I can't see a way for it to make any logical sense. The whole thing with Nick was already pushing it, but THIS?! No, this is like daytime soap opera territory.
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