After receiving a distressing letter from Nicky, Jack decides to enlist, even though he was considered a 4F (unfit for war) due to his irregular heartbeat. Remember when we said Jack was superman? WE ARE NOT LYING. He becomes a medic in the army and things go bad fast.ġ970: Jack enlists in order to save his brother. Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) attempts to help Nicky flee to Canada, but ultimately, Nicky decides he’s not running from this. Nicky’s (Michael Angarano) birth date gets pulled fifth in the lottery, so there’s no question he’ll be going over to fight. Things don’t work out as planned.ĭecember 1, 1969: Nicky gets drafted into the Vietnam War. They end the night with Nicky explaining the devastatingly romantic meaning behind Leonard Cohen’s “So Long, Marianne,” and the brothers promise to make this evening their new Thanksgiving tradition for years to come. Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Nicky (Michael Angarano) escape another truly terrible Thanksgiving and instead use Nicky’s football-bet winnings to buy and eat five pounds of shrimp.
Thanksgiving 1969: Jack and Nicky have the best day ever. He’s scared of rejection, scared of leaving his parents alone together, just scared of everything, really. Inspired by Neil Armstrong’s incredible feat, Nicky asks his crush and coworker Sally out, they fall in love, but when she asks him to travel across the country with her, he balks. ➽ Summer 1969: Man walks on the moon, Nicky has a whirlwind romance that ends in heartbreak She’ll meet her high-school boyfriend Alan there - poor Alan gets dumped by Rebecca multiple times. Rebecca rocks bangs, smashes the patriarchy.Īfter years of watching her mother serve her father, Rebecca (Mandy Moore) has zero time for high-school home-economics class and instead joins shop class. The guy who created the technology that made video chat possible, although very important to our daily lives, meeting his future wife doesn’t actually matter much to the overall Pearson timeline, but This Is Us spends time on this and we are nothing but thorough in this endeavor. ➽ 1963: Nasir Ahmed and Esther Pariente meet at the University of New Mexico. This is a huge move which sets into motion … well, everything. He promises his cousin that he’ll be back once he tends to his sick mother, but we all know that never happens.
Not only is Stanley a monster when it comes to Jack’s baseball dreams, but he gets so drunk at one of his games that he forces the kid to drive them home in one of the most white-knuckle rides of Jack’s life. ➽ Stanley ruins baseball, driving, and probably fatherhood for Jack. Rebecca’s only around 8 or 9 years old here, but the image of this woman staring at a painting stays with her. Rebecca watches a woman stare at John Singer Sargent’s Madame X at the Met. Jack and Nicky hide under the stairs during a particularly awful Pearson-family Thanksgiving. It’s one of the few childhood memories involving Stanley that the Pearson brothers can look back on fondly. The Pearsons are just out there slicing ice cream like it’s cake.
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If manual labor didn’t make you cry before, it will now. Jack is superman, Nicky always in need of rescuing. Pearson grows more awful by the day, and is especially tough on Nicky, and so Jack spends most of his childhood standing up for his mother and brother.
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Octo(11:58 p.m., if you want to be exact): Nicky Pearson is born.Īlmost immediately, Jack Pearson takes full responsibility for keeping his younger brother safe from life in general, and their angry, abusive dad (who wasn’t always that way!) specifically. Raise your hand if you downloaded William’s song “We Can Always Come Back to This” and listened to it on repeat. It is the first “almost” and “could’ve been” in a life full of them. He’s born with the gift of poetry, and eventually uses it to achieve minor success while in a cover band with his cousin Ricky (Brian Tyree Henry). William Hill’s father dies overseas and leaves behind a pregnant war widow.īut not before singing the sweetest version of “You Are My Sunshine.” It’s obvious where Young William (Jermel Nakia) gets his musical talent. So he’s the dude who is to blame for all the crying. Jack Pearson’s grandfather arrives in New York City.Īs Kevin (Justin Hartley) explains, the man has a son who has a son who has the Big Three.