Three years have passed since This Is Us ’ series finale shut the book on the Pearson family saga, and yet it’s pretty amazing how quickly those emotions can come flooding back. The NBC ensemble drama had a way of bringing the tears — both happy and sad — over its six-season run, and Justin Hartley ’s reaction to rewatching one of the series’ most brutally heartbreaking scenes has me back in my feelings.

The series centered around the Pearson family: Jack ( Milo Ventimiglia ), his wife Rebecca ( Mandy Moore ) and their children, the Big Three — Kevin (Justin Hartley), Kate (Chrissie Metz) and Randall ( Sterling K. Brown ), who they adopted after he was abandoned at a fire station. There was always tension between Kevin and Randall, especially after Jack died of heart fail

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