Why We Love “This Is Us”
Today I’ve written a piece for The Washington Post on the new hit show “This Is Us,” and what the success of this powerful drama can teach us.
Here’s an excerpt:
The secret to “This Is Us” is less about ogling some other, strange, dysfunctional family as it is about seeing in it our own.
This is where the time-hopping of the program is essential to its emotional power. Some of the adults in the show, like workaholic family man Randall, seem to have most things together, while others — like si..