This Is Us Sneak Peek: Jack Prepares for an Achingly Sad, Solo Journey
As you might’ve guessed from the final moments of last week’s This Is Us, Tuesday’s episode (NBC, 9/8c) is quite the emotional journey for Milo Ventimiglia’s Jack.
And as it turns out, it’s also a lengthy literal journey, as we learn in this exclusive sneak peek at the hour.
In the clip above, Milo Ventimiglia’s Jack prepares to drive to his recently deceased mother’s place to put her affairs in order ahead of the funeral. There’s a snow storm getting underway outside, and Jack is hastening to get on the road before the icy conditions make the drive treacherous.
Still, Mandy Moore’s Rebecca worries about her grieving husband making the trip alone. When she suggests that she and the kids come along, he gently shuts her down. “I’ve done the math,” he jokes. “Three 6-year-olds on a four-hour car ride? It ain’t worth it.”
She protests that “you’re our guy, Jack,” but he stands firm in his desire to travel alone. Plus, he points out, the kids barely knew his mom, Marilyn, whom they haven’t seen in years; for most of their lives, she’s been “just a voice on the other end of the telephone.”
Rebecca’s dismay is interrupted by the arrival of The Big Three, who respond to the death of their grandmother with age-appropriate nonchalance. Press PLAY on the video above to watch Sad Jack get ready to go, then hit the comments with your thoughts on the final season so far.
The Jack scenes as of late really slow down the episodes. They are just boring. So we shall see what this week feels like with what seemingly looks like a full Jack centric flashback episode.
I honestly don’t see the point of this episode. I don’t see a need to delve into this part of Jack’s life when there’s so much more going on in the present. Perhaps it’ll inform somehow with the Big 3, but I don’t see it.
Do you think it will be an episode about mothers more than just about Jack? Last week was abut four different fathers and how they related to their children. Maybe this one will be about children dealing with the loss of their mother. So Jack and his journey to say goodbye to his mother, with some flashbacks to when he was younger, as well as the three kids at home with Rebecca, and then a flashforward to them as they are saying the long goodbye. Or something with Kate or even Madison. Who knows? But I wouldn’t put Four Mothers past them.
After the episode with Jacks death they seem to dont know what to do with his character. Every scene he is in just slow down everything and feel unconnected to the plot, they should have leave him in a supporting role
I don’t necessarily agree with that. When Rebecca was remembering driving with the top down with Jack, it was a contrast between the marriage she had with Jack versus the hardship her current husband will go through.
Well we finally know what happened to Jack’s mom and when
They’ve really been putting the spin on this episode that it’s supposed to be really emotional.
Also, no new shows for a few weeks while the Olympics are on.
I love this show, but when I saw the previews for this week…my first thought was who cares. This is the quintessential example of a filler episodes. I might just skip it.
You haven’t even seen it and you are already judging it!
I have almost never enjoyed episodes involving Jack’s mother and father.
This episode looks like blatant Emmy bait. Meanwhile, we still know very little about Miguel and Rebecca’s courtship, and the writers have been promising to tell that story since season one.
These first four episodes seem like nothing but filler. Like normally the story moves along and we fill in the blanks with the crumbs we are given but nothing has happened at all and then we sit out the Olympics for more nothing.
I feel like This Is Us is going to pull a fast one this week. On the surface, this episode seems like it’s just about Jack and his Mother. But I think it’s going to end up being more about The Big Three’s Mother, Rebecca. At least at the very end of the episode. I can’t imagine that they would use a whole episode to talk about Jack’s Mother’s death this late in the game. I wish they had done this earlier in the series, as his Mother is important. Just as his Father was. But I think they were saving this for the last season to tie into Rebecca’s death. We shall see tonight.
This week’s episode will be hard for me. I lost my mom a couple years ago & my husband lost his a couple weeks ago. We went halfway across the country to my mom’s funeral, but his mom asked to be cremated & scattered in an undisclosed area, like her husband. Losing a parent is pretty rough. I just hope Jack’s eulogy is a million times better than my bungled try!
Is that cousin camrin manheim?
Seems like a waste of an episode since Jack’s mother hasn’t been part of show .
Also, where is Nicky in flashbacks ?