What a terrible pool day! They don’t even end up cuddling on a chair together at the end of the day while an Alexi Murdoch song plays. It also clearly demonstrates that old saying about “the bigger the kids, the bigger the problems.” Instead of arguing with them to get their swimmies on, now Rebecca spends the entire day worried that Kate’s being bullied by the popular kids, and Jack has to have a discussion about “complicated men” with Kevin, who, after deliberately embarrassing Randall in front of his friends, questions if he’s a good person. Those two sad dinks can’t even look at a bottle of sunscreen without it transporting them back to a time when their kids enjoyed being around them.
This return to the pool acts as a jumping-off point for all the other story lines in the episode, but for Jack and Rebecca it serves as a reminder that their children are growing up. Not these three! Jack once again is able to nab five chairs for his family, but it is all for naught: Kate runs off when two popular girls invite her to join them, and Kevin has won over Randall’s friends with his knowledge of Wreckx-N-Effect, as one did in the ’90s. They’re legit embarrassed of Jack and Rebecca and honestly: in what world? Their parents are hot angel humansm and I feel like even a child should be able to recognize that. It would be a lovely idea if only their three children hadn’t turned into monsters. The Big Three are about to embark on seventh grade, and to celebrate the end of the summer, Jack and Rebecca decide to have a Pearson Family Fun Day at the public pool. That’s really all I need to enjoy anything. I mean, that’s really all I need to enjoy an episode of This Is Us. Instead it has things like: reminders of emotional bridges that have carried the Pearson kids from childhood to adulthood, Rebecca in yet another fabulous hat, some great adult-sibling moments, Randall talking about meat sweats, parents wistfully looking at their children growing up before their very eyes, and Milo Ventimiglia singing “Rumpshaker” while in a bathing suit. I get what This Is Us was trying to do with its season-four premiere, and sure, I’m interested in seeing how our new characters are woven into the greater Pearson tapestry, but to really get back into the This Is Us swing of things, I needed an episode like “The Pool: Part Two.” I know I’ve said this before, and I’ll probably be saying this until the series finale, but This Is Us doesn’t need tricky reveals to be moving - “The Pool: Part Two,” which brings us back to the public pool we visited in season one, is one of the best TIU episodes in a while, and it has none of those. Daniel Charles ( Oliver Platt) is sent down to quarantine to deal with the token possibly crazy person, a woman named Sharlene Hughes who blames the CIA.Ah, see? This feels much better. While Chicago Med prepares to take on extra patients, Goodwin sends Maggie Lockwood ( Marlyne Barrett) home and Halstead apologizes to Upton for getting her tossed into a plastic room. The additional patients make Chicago Fire‘s Chief Wallace Boden ( Eamonn Walker) realize that no one actually has any clue how the disease is transmitted, despite all the talking that’s been going on, and he tells Danover and Will to figure it out.ĭanover orders the apartment building evacuated with the surviving residents quarantined. One Chicago burned an apartment building in the last three-show crossover now it’s infecting one instead. Especially when Will is asked to be the liaison, you can guess where this may end up going should the writers decide to keep Andrea on after this crossover.īut first, the infection has spread to an entire apartment building. Now we know which main character drew the short straw in this crossover! When Upton comes back to Chicago Med, she’s thrown into quarantine thanks to a hangnail.Ĭenters for Disease Control expert Andrea Danover (played by Kathleen Munroe of CSI: NY fame) shows up and just happens to be an old classmate of Dr. She collapses in front of Upton, bleeding all over her in the process. Unfortunately, that is because she’s clearly infected.
Veronica conveniently didn’t show up for work on the day of the fire.
“Infection, Part 2” actually begins with characters from Chicago PD, as Jay Halstead ( Jesse Lee Soffer) sends Hailey Upton ( Tracy Spiridakos) to find one of suspect Stuart Anderson’s former co-workers.
0 kommentar(er)
