"this Is Us" Strangers(2019) -

meets Deja at a barbecue, beginning a pivotal romance.

This episode subverted the "Big Three" formula to expand the show’s world. It explored themes of authentically facing mental health challenges and the way strangers eventually become family . It reminded us that every person we pass on the street has a story as complex and "Pearson-level" emotional as our own.

For the first 40 minutes, the episode focuses almost exclusively on three new characters: "This Is Us" Strangers(2019)

is revealed to be Kate and Toby’s adult son, Jack—born prematurely at the end of Season 3. Why It Worked

Here is a blog post looking back at why this episode was a game-changer. meets Deja at a barbecue, beginning a pivotal romance

The magic of This Is Us has always been its timeline trickery. In the final moments of "Strangers," the dots are connected:

The Art of the New: Revisiting the "This Is Us" Season 4 Premiere, "Strangers" It reminded us that every person we pass

What did you think of the storyline specifically?