THIS IS US

THIS IS US is an American drama series that premiered on NBC on September 20, 2016. This Is Us was shot in Los Angeles. THIS IS US consists of 106 episodes of 45 minutes.

STORY: The series follows the lives of siblings Kevin (Justin Hartley), Kate (Chrissy Metz), and Randall (Sterling K. Brown), and their parents Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Rebecca Pearson (Mandy Moore). It is mainly set in the present and uses flashbacks to show the family's past. Kevin and Kate are the two surviving members of a triplets pregnancy, born six weeks early on Jack's 36th birthday in 1980; their brother Kyle is stillborn. Believing that they were supposed to have three children, Jack and Rebecca, who are white, decide to adopt Randall, an African-American child born the day before and taken to the same hospital after his biological father William Hill (Ron Cephas Jones) had left him at a fire station.

GAY COUPLE STORYLINE: William "Shakespeare" Hill (Ron Cephas Jones) is Randall's biological father. Jessie (Denis O'Hare) is in the penultimate episode of the season, with a memorial service for William. He died in the episode before that while traveling to Memphis with his son Randall. In season two we get to know the love life of Jessie and William in flashback.

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William Hill (Ron Cephas Jones) & Jessie (Denis O’Hare)

RON CEPHAS JONES (2016-2021) January 8, 1957, Paterson, NJ, USA 

DENIS O’HARE (2016-2018) January 17, 1962, Kansas City, MO, USA

SPECIAL: Fogelman deliberately recruited talent into the crew that would reflect the diversity of his cast, aiming to make the dialogue and storylines more authentic. These include black directors Regina King and George Tillman Jr. and black female writers Kay Oyegun and Jas Waters (part of a 30% black core writing staff that far exceeds the industry standard of 5%).

AWARDS: ‘THIS IS US’ won 4 Primetime Emmys. 67 wins & 293 nominations.

8.7 IMDB