The perpetual sadness machine that is This Is Us has finally built up to the moment its been teasing since early on in the first season: The death of Jack Pearson.*
All signs have pointed to the fact that everyone's favorite dad Jack died while his kids, a.k.a. The Big Three, were in their late teens, and a few more recent episodes alluded to the fact that he may have died in a house fire. Well, on Tuesday night, this seemed to be solidified given the fact that the episode left us on a cliffhanger where half of the house is on fire thanks to a faulty crockpot. And now we're all steeling ourselves to weep uncontrollably after the Super Bowl on Feb. 4. Read more...