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Death Watch: 'This Is Us' Kicks Off Its Second Season, Teary As Ever

NBC's surprise hit of last fall, the drama This Is Us, began its second season with an episode that stayed mostly in the here and now before dipping dramatically back to the past.
Sterling K. Brown as Randall, still being the best thing about the season premiere of This Is Us. / NBC / Getty Images

[This examination of the season premiere of This Is Us discusses, in detail, everything that has happened on the show up to and including the season premiere, and it also includes what I promise is baseless speculation on my part about what might be coming in the future. — LH]

Every discussion of an episode of NBC's This Is Usmust begin in the same place: So let's start here: in the second season premiere, we did not see that death. Not exactly. But we collected a good amount of ... let's say circumstantial evidence about it.

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