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This Is Us · Season 1 · NBC

This Is Us Season 1

This Is Us Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.8/10. 18 episodes on NBC from 20 September 2016.

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BollyMeter8.8/1092 percent on Rotten Tomatoes from 217 critics and a 91 percent audience score reflect a rare dual-consensus hit; the pilot twist reframing Jack and Rebecca as Kevin, Kate, and Randall's parents became one of broadcast TV's most discussed season-launch moments of the 2010s.

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This Is Us launched on NBC September 20, 2016 and ended its first season March 14, 2017. Critics scored it 92 percent on Rotten Tomatoes from 217 reviews. The consensus praised creator Dan Fogelman's structural device: three adult siblings' present-day lives intercut with their parents' past, each episode's timeline reveal recontextualizing what came before. The pilot's final twist - establishing that Jack and Rebecca Pearson are the Big Three's parents, not peers - became broadcast television's most discussed cold-open gut-punch of the season. Audience reception at 91 percent Popcornmeter and 8.7 on IMDb confirmed it as a genuine national phenomenon. Critics noted both the show's emotional generosity and its willingness to address race, addiction, body image, and grief with more candor than typical network drama.

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92%critics positive · n=2178.7/10IMDb audience
  • “Full-tilt heartstring-tugging family drama - a suitable surrogate for those who felt a void since Parenthood went off the air.”
    Rotten Tomatoes Critics Consensus

Standout Episodes

The hours worth arguing about — premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.

  1. E1Pilot9.0

    The series premiere introduces four strangers sharing a birthday, cycling between present storylines and a couple expecting triplets in the 1980s. The structural twist at the episode's end reframes everything - it functions as both a complete story and a mission statement for six seasons of time-jumping family drama. Critics called it one of the most effective network pilots in years.

    The moment: The final reveal that ties the 1980s nursery to the present-day Pearson siblings - a structural sleight of hand that lands as an emotional thunderclap.

  2. E16Memphis9.2

    Randall and his biological father William take a road trip to Memphis, revisiting William's past before a terminal diagnosis forecloses the future. The episode operates as a self-contained elegy for the father-son relationship Randall and William almost never had. Sterling K. Brown and Ron Cephas Jones carry it almost entirely without sentimentality.

    The moment: William singing in the Memphis bar, Randall watching - the scene critics most cited as the emotional peak of the entire first season.