This Is Us season 5, episode 8 recap: A new Big 3 is born
In tonight's This Is Us, COVID and technology loom large. Though I don't love shows slapping us with real-world drama, especially COVID, these themes are intertwined and woven into the plot in a heart-warming way that drives the episode's emotional depth. The connective tissue is the notion of being, as the episode title indicates, "in the room" — an echo of last week's theme of being there for people. The story revolves around the Pearsons wanting to be in the (hospital) rooms for the birth of Kevin's twins and the baby Kate and Toby are adopting from a surrogate named Ellie. But due t...