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EPISODE
SEASON
SCHEDULE
This Is Us - Season 2 Episode 11: The Fifth Wheel
Follows a unique ensemble, as their paths cross and their life stories interwine, from sharing the same birthday, to so much more than anyone would expect.
6 July 1946, New York City, New York, USA
14 December 1967, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
21 November 1975, Hackettstown, New Jersey, USA
25 April 1988, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 August 1990, San Ramon, California, USA
4 August 1989, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
8 April 1979, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
15 September 1979, Suffern, New York, USA
March 09, 2018
What fresh, incredibly well-acted hell is this, This Is Us? Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I wish the entire episode had stayed right in that cozy-looking group-therapy room at Kevin's swanky, court-ordered rehab facility.
March 09, 2018
This was an intensely "real" episode - probably the most internal conflict we've seen among the Pearsons ever - so I don't want my eye-rolling at Kevin's perceived victimhood to be misinterpreted.
March 09, 2018
They didn't have an perfect relationship, but as she admits to Kevin, they had their moments.
March 09, 2018
This episode really wrapped up a lot, but opened a lot of new cans of worms for the Pearsons as well.
June 15, 2018
A big part of The Fifth Wheel is about the complexity of memory and shared memory.
March 09, 2018
Writer Vera Herbert pens a great sequence that both challenges what we know about the Pearsons and opens up a whole bunch of new storytelling avenues for the show. Unfortunately, the rest of the episode around it isn't quite as strong.
March 12, 2018
Well, at least now we have confirmation on which son is Rebecca's favorite.
March 09, 2018
The midseason finale foreshadowed a kind of family reckoning, and "The Fifth Wheel" provides just that.
March 12, 2018
Who knew therapy could be so dang entertaining?