The life of an ordinary family that struggles against having a good and comfortable life, so they pass through the hard life and do their best, in order to save their children. As Kate, Kevin, and Randall, three brothers of the same age, who seek to have a good life and struggle against passing their 38th birthday.
This is Us delves deeper into his history, it also peels back the layers of another elusive character who's been trying to navigate her own trauma: Zoe.
The narrow focus of the episode was a smart choice on the writers' part, and helped give more weight to both Kevin's search for answers about Jack's service and the flashbacks to the service itself.
There is plenty of material here for one episode, and the storylines all interconnect nicely, so it's good that they didn't try to shoe-horn Randall into the episode somehow.
Sometimes is a deeply haunted episode of This Is Us. And in refining its focus to three rich story lines... -- it also happens to be one of the best of the season so far.
Sometimes doesn't play into the stereotypical image of the show as a corny, tear-jerking family drama full of big speeches and histrionic moments. Instead, this is an episode built around quiet interactions, nuanced performances, and grey areas.
Despite This Is Us' habit of going for schlocky over-the-top sentimentality over actual emotional storytelling, the beginning of Zoe's backstory comes with the appropriate weight. Likely because of her portrayer Melanie Liburd's nuanced performance.
