This Is Us Premiere Focuses on Rebecca’s Heartbreaking Memory Loss

By its sixth season, This Is Us has mastered how to connect its characters’ adolescent experiences with their adult emotions. Everything from days at the local pool to a Thanksgiving spent watching Police Academy 3 have foreshadowed major storylines for the present-day Pearsons. The NBC drama’s final season premiere followed suit, anchored in how the 1986 Challenger space shuttle explosion influenced Kevin, Kate, and Randall’s current coping skills. This flashback is no coincidence. Back in the show’s pilot, Kevin told a pair of bikini-clad women it was the Challenger explosion, thirty years earlier, that set his life on the wrong… Read Full Article