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This Is Us - Season 3 Episode 05: Toby
Completing the struggling incidents, where a common family battles against having kids, as they lost almost the entirety of their youngsters, the thing that influences seriously on them, yet three siblings at a similar age, battle against having a decent life, as they wind up celebrate with their 38th birthday celebration, the thing that makes their dread and stress.
27 September 1961, The Bronx, New York, USA
25 January 1954, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
20 May 1960, Media, Pennsylvania, USA
October 24, 2018
While I rarely have much sympathy for the impossibly privileged Kevin Pearson, even I want him to get his necklace back now.October 24, 2018
You got me, This Is Us. Again!October 24, 2018
I tend to prefer This Is Us when it's less freeform and more focused. To its credit, "Toby" kept me interested throughout, but it also felt like the show was continually cutting away from storylines just as they were starting to get good.October 25, 2018
The episode itself was all over the place, although not necessarily in a bad way.October 24, 2018
That's right, after years of being pushed aside in favor of the Pearson clan, Toby, Beth, and Miguel finally got the spotlight they deserve.October 24, 2018
That said, the flashbacks are both thematically appropriate and artfully weaved into the present, which is not something the writers achieve every week.October 24, 2018
This Is Us returned to its usual storytelling technique, to solid results. I was nervous the show couldn't follow up such a terrific and subtle episode, but it pulled it off nicely.October 25, 2018
Toby is clearly leading towards a big reveal, but in being so concerned about the future of the show it feels like This Is Us has completely forgotten about the importance of the present in this episode.October 24, 2018
Did we really need that extended Adele-o-gram sequence? That's not a rhetorical question. The answer is no.October 24, 2018
"Toby" is an unusually scattered installment of This Is Us, advancing nearly every major storyline that the show has going right now but without a cohesive, unifying idea.October 24, 2018
I find it interesting that This is Us followed up last week's "Vietnam" narrative, which centered the elusive Jack Pearson, with this week's equally crushing unveiling of Toby's story.