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This Is Us - Season 2 Episode 13: That'll Be the Day
A group of people whose life stories are interwined in different ways is followed in second season, you will watch them share the same birthday and even much of what no one could ever imagine.
25 March 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 May 1989, Levittown, New York, USA
17 September 1962, Saigon, South Vietnam [now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam]
25 January 1954, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
29 July 1969, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
18 November 1952, Eltham, London, England, UK
March 09, 2018
As we saw last week, the smoke detector is broken. At this point, probably every This Is Us fan ever is sobbing. We're still left with tons of questions though, which will all be answered in next week's episode.
March 09, 2018
It's an insanely dramatic way to end things, not least because the rest of the episode progresses in a much lower key.
March 09, 2018
And then the episode went ahead and ended on a cliffhanger instead, leaving all that emotional buildup without anywhere to go. What a classic This Is Us twist!
March 09, 2018
There's this heartbreaking montage of all the things the Pearsons are about to lose in the fire.
March 09, 2018
Like so many things with this show, what's actually going on isn't anything monumental, but every single scene set in the past has extra weight to it because we know what we know.
March 12, 2018
With "That'll Be the Day" as its title, we knew the Tuesday, January 23, episode of This Is Us had to be a doozy, likely related to Jack's death, and we were right.
March 09, 2018
That final scene was just horrifying.
March 09, 2018
First thing, This Is Us fans, retrieve your slow cooker from the garbage can. Your crock-pot didn't do anything wrong.
March 12, 2018
After all, the episode's title is "That'll Be the Day," and I spent too many long car rides as a child listening to my parents' oldies station not to know that that jauntily sung Buddy Holly lyric ends with the words, "that I die."
June 15, 2018
[The best] thing about "That'll Be The Day" is the gnawing feeling that something really terrible is going to happen.