I wrote this article back in 2017, when my wife and I first started watching This Is Us on NBC (we actually watched it on network TV in 2017). As we were finishing the series in 2022 (on Hulu) with our teenage daughter, who had grown to really like it, I remembered what I had thought fire years ago about what might eventually undo this really excellent drama. Sure enough, it undid itself in just the way I feared it would. I bolded the key line down below.