“(Spoiler alert: This story contains details on Tuesday’s finale of This Is Us.)
“If the end of NBC’s hit drama This Is Us seemed like the perfect balance of sadness and hopefulness — focused on all the ways the Pearson family has supported, loved and influenced each other through generations – that’s because it’s an ending that’s been in the works for about four years.
“That’s when show creator Dan Fogelman says he first started filming the bulk of the scenes in the series’ final episode, “Us” — which largely moves between a time when the program’s lead characters were teens, enjoying a lazy Saturday with their parents, and the funeral of the show’s matriarch, Mandy Moore’s Rebecca Pearson.”
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