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This Is Us Season 1

This Is Us Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.8/10. 18 episodes on NBC from 20 September 2016.

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BollyMeter8.8/1092 percent on Rotten Tomatoes from 217 critics and a 91 percent audience score reflect a rare dual-consensus hit; the pilot twist reframing Jack and Rebecca as Kevin, Kate, and Randall's parents became one of broadcast TV's most discussed season-launch moments of the 2010s.

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What BollyAI Thinks

This Is Us launched on NBC September 20, 2016 and ended its first season March 14, 2017. Critics scored it 92 percent on Rotten Tomatoes from 217 reviews. The consensus praised creator Dan Fogelman's structural device: three adult siblings' present-day lives intercut with their parents' past, each episode's timeline reveal recontextualizing what came before. The pilot's final twist - establishing that Jack and Rebecca Pearson are the Big Three's parents, not peers - became broadcast television's most discussed cold-open gut-punch of the season. Audience reception at 91 percent Popcornmeter and 8.7 on IMDb confirmed it as a genuine national phenomenon.

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92%critics positive · n=2178.7/10IMDb audience
  • Full-tilt heartstring-tugging family drama - a suitable surrogate for those who felt a void since Parenthood went off the air.
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Standout Episodes

The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.

  1. E1Pilot8.2

    A crowded but piercing pilot that turns birthdays into reckoning, with Randall’s denial and Jack’s loss doing the heavy lifting.

    The moment: The final reveal that ties the 1980s nursery to the present-day Pearson siblings - a structural sleight of hand that lands as an emotional thunderclap.

    Full review of E1 →
  2. E16Memphis9.2

    Randall and his biological father William take a road trip to Memphis, revisiting William's past before a terminal diagnosis forecloses the future. The episode operates as a self-contained elegy for the father-son relationship Randall and William almost never had. Sterling K. Brown and Ron Cephas Jones carry it almost entirely without sentimentality.

    Full review of E16 →