Cry Of The Week: 'This Is Us' Takes Us To Fat Camp
Welcome to our new weekly series “Cry of the Week, ” in which we highlight whatever moment constructed us ugly scream on our lounges the most in the past seven days .
This Is Us has never been afraid to take us viewers on an emotional rollercoaster. In fact, I’m convinced that Dan Fogelman and the NBC depicts novelists relish in our tears at this point.
If that wasn’t clear before, it certainly became obvious after this week’s episode, in which we watched Kate( Chrissy Metz) run through a breakdown at fat camp while recollecting emotional obstacles in her life that prevented her from achieving various life goals.
One of those traumatizing moments? Her father Jacks( Milo Ventimiglia) funeral.
Excuse us while we have our own breakdown.
The moment:
Kate’s emotional journey has always been part of the series, but when we find her let herself go at the weight loss camp one of the most compelling moments in her storyline thus far it is powerful enough to move us to tears in merely two minutes.
As Kate partakes in an emotionally charged workout at camp, her intellect strays down memory lane. In the first flashback, we consider her sitting at a pool, reading a note from her friends saying “We don’t want you to play with us anymore. You embarrass us.”
Are your heartstrings getting pulled? It gets worse.
The show then cuts to a flashback of Kate’s 10 th birthday party, where we watch her goofing around with her daddy, Jack. The two are so adorable, and Kate is so happy.
But suddenly, the flashback jumps to Jack’s other children in their teen years. They’re wearing black and holding hands at Jack’s funeral. Jack, the heart-of-gold patriarch of the family. The loving partner to Rebecca and parent of triplets. Jack, who runs from being an emotionally unavailable drunk to the “perfect guy”( as our reviewer Diane Gordon described him ).
Sadly, we won’t find out how Jack succumbed for quite some time.
Theres a before and after tothis family, Fogelman told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour earlier this month. Before Jack, and after. Theres a hinge in this family, and that will be really interesting to showwhere that hinge was.
We won’t find out until “much later” how the family lost Jack, and it will be an even longer time until spectators assure the moment of Jack’s death.
If you absence patience and are in deep in need of an outlet for feeling more feels there’s a whole Reddit thread dedicated to theories around how Jack might have died. Advising: More tears will definitely is next.
Cry Of The Week: 'This Is Us' Takes Us To Fat Camp
Cry Of The Week: 'This Is Us' Takes Us To Fat Camp
Cry Of The Week: 'This Is Us' Takes Us To Fat Camp
Cry Of The Week: 'This Is Us' Takes Us To Fat Camp
Cry Of The Week: 'This Is Us' Takes Us To Fat Camp