This Is Us
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Its baked into the premise, really, what with all the looking back to understand the present.
The entire episode is about showing us just how this whole thing is definitelynotnothing for Nicky Pearson.
In fact, this historic moment seems like something Nicky and Stanley could bond over.
And there is a girl hes interested in: his colleague Sally at the animal clinic.
Weve heard about Sally before.
Now we get to meet this Sally.
Nickys awkward as hell, so Jack tries to push him to ask her out.
It turns out Sally is capable of asking Nicky out on her own.
Shes even a huge hit with Nickys parents.
She wants to start an adventure with him.
Nicky says yes, but hes scared.
Nicky never goes to meet Sally.
We meet up with Nicky again sometime after his return from Vietnam.
Nicky just cant take that kind of leap.
He lets Jack go.
This brings us to our present-day Nicky.
He wants to, so he decides hes going to do it.
He hasnt been on a plane since he was medevaced out of Vietnam.
), but they get confiscated at the airport.
After a bit of a scene at security, the snowglobes come crashing to the ground, ruined.
Its Nickys first sign that maybe this is a bad idea.
Things go well when Nicky first arrives at Kevins.
Its too much for Nicky.
Jack must be rolling around in his grave, he tells Cassidy.
But shes not buying it.
She knows Nicky has spent his entire life trying to make Jack proud.
Dont you think he would be proud?
It took a while, but you made it all the way to California.
Now thats someThis Is Usshit if Ive ever heard it.
I mean that in a good, emotionally gutting, if not a bit saccharine, way.
With that phone call cutting him to his core, Nicky goes in to visit the sleeping babies.
Griffin Dunne and this master class!
The impossible became possible just like that, he tells them.
Thats how it was for him thinking about leaving his trailer and getting on a plane to California.
It was impossible until it wasnt; he made it.
You two are my moon, Nicky says to his brothers grandchildren.
We know that eventually a girl like thatwillask him to go to California and he wont hesitate.
Again, how veryThis Is UsofThis Is Us!
This is all I want for this man.
Nicky still uses the Samsonite suitcase Jack gifted him back in 1969!
Be still, my heart!
What a showcase for both our Nickys: Michael Angarano and Griffin Dunne.
