Looks like the future isn’t easy for the Pearsons.
Sterling K. Brown talked to Entertainment Weekly about that finale that wrapped up the first half of season 4 of This Is Us.
Just in case you haven’t seen the finale and don’t might the spoilers — the final episode saw a very disoriented Rebecca (Mandy Moore) picked up by the police. When she’s returned to the Pearson’s cabin, we see Kevin (Justin Hartley) and Kate (Chrissy Metz) preparing to celebrate their 40th birthday but Randall is absent. Then when Rebecca asked Kevin where Randall was, Kevin reminded her, “We’re not speaking, remember?” Oh yeah and there’s also Kevin’s pregnant fiancée.
“[Randall] loves his mom like nobody’s business,” Brown told the outlet. “And the idea of him not being at her aid as she enters into one of the more trying periods of her life is anathema. He will make himself available until he uses himself up. And that may be something that we see until he uses him up. That’s what Randall does. He does too much until he can’t do anything else.”
He continued: “Rebecca’s cognition and the state of the matriarch of this family is going to be something that’s tough to watch for most people and how they come to terms with it, accept it, how they move forward with it. It’s uncomfortable to watch someone that you love start to fail themselves.”
And despite all those unknowns, Brown says: “The last couple of episodes will really set up what’s going to be happening in the season to come.”
