Dan Fogelman, creator of ThisIsUs, opens up about the episode's surprising reveals and the plan for the rest of the time-jumping family drama's fourth season
[This story contains spoilers from the season four midseason finale "So Long, Marianne" episode of NBC'swrapped its fall run Tuesday with its annual Thanksgiving episode during which the various Pearson family members gathered at Randall and Beth's new Philadelphia home — before flashing forward nine months to the siblings' 40th birthday.
We're at the beginning, in this episode, of a very long complicated journey. It's been part of the plan from go for this show, which is so much about six, seven and beyond decades of one family, when you really try to count backwards and forwards. As a show that deals with time and nostalgia and memory, that was always part of the construct. In terms of how I had it planned, you're very much seeing on screen where I thought we'd be and how I thought it would feel at this point.
The timeline twist with Rebecca's grocery store outing — it turns out that took place nine months in the future — was a surprise. Why did you choose to structure it that way? Those answers all get provided in the back half of the season, which is a nice device for us. And it's something we've always had planned. I think we did similarly with — this is going way back — but in our second season premiere, we had shown a glimpse of the night of Jack's death, but then we spent the rest of the time catching up to that.
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