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.
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.
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.
