This Is Us · Season 6 · NBC
This Is Us Season 6
This Is Us Season 6 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.5/10. 18 episodes on NBC from 4 January 2022.
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What BollyAI Thinks
The final season premiered January 4, 2022, and earned 100 percent from 18 critics with an 87 percent audience score - a recovery from Season 5's audience soft patch. Critics praised the season's discipline in honoring every principal character's arc across all timelines, and The Daily Beast summarized the consensus: 'absolutely sticks the landing.' Brian Lowry at CNN noted it 'came pretty close to touching all the bases.' The series finale aired May 24, 2022, and became NBC's most-watched drama finale in years. The final season succeeded precisely because it stopped adding timeline mystery boxes and committed to resolution - critics and audiences who had stuck with the show through six seasons found the payoff proportional to the investment. The ensemble's last work, particularly Sterling K. Brown and Mandy Moore, received near-unanimous praise.
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The Room
“Comes to a close with a home-run final season that stays true to its dramatic, sappy, heart-wrenching, and emotionally resonant core.”
Rotten Tomatoes Critics Consensus“Absolutely sticks the landing.”
Emma Fraser, The Daily Beast
Standout Episodes
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The series finale traverses every timeline for the last time, giving each member of the Pearson family a complete arc close. Critics praised its tonal control - neither maudlin nor rushed - and its restraint in the final ten minutes. The episode was watched by more viewers than any NBC drama finale in over a decade.
The moment: The final scene of the Pearson family gathered together - a visual that collapsed every timeline into a single frame without explicitly spelling out what it means.
Season Over Season
Abandons mystery structuring for resolution; the strongest audience recovery of the back half of the run and a finale that delivered on a six-year promise.