This Us Us Season 4 Episode 7 Review

It'southward official. Rebecca near probable has Alzheimer'due south.

This Is United states Flavor iv Episode 15 presented some poignant memories for her as she and Kevin went on one last outing before she had her MRI.

It made for an constructive, emotional hr of telly, particularly juxtaposed with Randall's therapy session.

This Is Us is, at its center, a story of several successive generations of a family told simultaneously.

The multi-timeline format has contributed to the poignancy of Rebecca's Alzheimer's diagnosis because viewers are treated all at once to both her youthful escapades and her desire to hold onto her memories as her mental faculties begin to neglect.

The three parallel journeys Rebecca took during the hour drove that betoken home even more and then than other episodes of the serial.

Kevin: You still got information technology.
Rebecca: An otherwise simple morning time would accept been forgotten if it weren't for that song.
Kevin: Are you scared?
Rebecca: A little, but why am I talking virtually that now? I'g here with y'all. You always brand everything fun.

This item story also gave us a glimpse into Rebecca'south relationship with Kevin, something which is sometimes neglected in favor of her human relationship with Randall.

Kevin'southward journeying from the disruptive child who manipulated his manner into a trip to the baseball card shop to stepping up to take care of his ailing female parent was fantastic.

Give thanks goodness Randall let it skid that Rebecca was having cognitive issues because otherwise Rebecca would have been cheated out of spending the fourth dimension she needed to spend with Kevin to try to keep her mind off her appointment.

Reverse to what everyone expected, Kevin didn't fall apart when he learned about Rebecca'due south diagnosis. He stepped upwardly and gave her the kind of gift merely he could give her.

And in return, Rebecca gave Kevin some rare and much-needed encouragement. While his role in the family unit might take been equally the "problem child," Rebecca loved him for his complimentary-spirited, so-called disruptive nature.

He needed to hear that every bit much as she needed to hear that he'd exist there for her throughout her disease.

The journey Kevin and Rebecca took was more or less through memory lane.

People with Alzheimer's and similar disorders often have clearer memories of the past than the present, so it was unsurprising that Rebecca became nostalgic about the Joni Mitchell albums, and Kevin's offer to take her to that house was a sweet gesture.

I'grand good. Information technology'south funny, all this bad news has kind of freed me upward. Carpe diem and all that.

Rebecca

One thing that surprised me was that going into a record store didn't make anyone remember about Kate and Marc.

This wasn't Kate's story, only withal. She met Marc in that record shop, and as presently as Rebecca mentioned records, that's where my mind went.

Anyway, Kevin's stepping up to be there for Rebecca provided a compelling contrast with his childhood adventure with her.

Pre-teen Kevin might take said Sophie's mom was more fun, but he relished the opportunity to spend time alone with Rebecca more than he let on.

The two of them had a keen fourth dimension searching for that baseball card just like they had a neat time checking out Joni Mitchell's quondam firm.

Therapist: So what brings y'all hither today?
Randall:It's kind of a long story. You got an hour?

Kevin and Rebecca's lighthearted pre-diagnosis outing stood in stark dissimilarity to Randall'due south therapy session.

The therapy scenes were extraordinarily well done and realistic. Fifty-fifty going to a therapist'southward office at all is a huge step for someone similar Randall who, as he said, has control issues.

Randall has completely bought into the idea that he is the only one who can hold this family together, and he probably won't be as well happy to learn that Kevin did just fine at taking care of Rebecca.

Randall: I have feet. Endure from? Is that the... doesn't thing. Maybe in one case a decade things get overwhelming. I take a panic assault, end upwards hospitalized. My house was recently broken into and my wife is worried about history repeating itself. My daughter Tess has panic attacks and she's seeing a therapist and it helps. So that'southward what I'm looking to become out of this, I gauge. Coping mechanisms.
Therapist: Before nosotros get to all that, I'd like to know a little more than about you.
Randall: I'1000 an open up book. What do you want to know?

He certainly didn't want to hear the therapist'due south opinion of his need to be the caretaker in the family. Thank goodness Beth talked him into going dorsum.

Beth's impassioned plea for Randall to do what it took to be okay so she could confide in him that she wasn't okay either was one of the most powerful Beth/Randall moments on This Is Us Season four thus far

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She was right, as well. Randall needs assist, and ane of the things he needs aid with is finding a new definition of who he is that doesn't include being the glue holding the family together.

Randall and Kevin are headed toward a showdown over Kevin's contributions to helping Rebecca.

Near probable, this is what's going to atomic number 82 to the rift between them, and that'south a shame.

Dealing with Alzheimer'due south isn't like shooting fish in a barrel for anyone, and Randall and Kevin should be sharing the load, non fighting over who gets to burn himself out being the sole flagman.

Anyhow, while Randall might non have wanted to remember well-nigh his childhood relationships with his family unit, viewers certainly got to meet where some of his habits began since Jack encouraged him to take upwardly running to deal with his anxiety.

Meanwhile, thank goodness Kate and Toby came to an agreement, at least for the moment.

I'1000 however firmly in the camp of believing that Kate is way overreacting to Kevin and Madison'southward hookup, but in whatever case, Madison's advice to Kate was perfect.

Hopefully, Kate can stick to her resolve to stop resenting Toby for his feelings and terminate fighting with him over everything.

That music studio Toby congenital in the garage wasn't only a sweet gesture, but appears to be an of import function of Jack's babyhood, maybe even contributing to his determination to pursue music equally a career when he grows upwards.

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