Spoil alert! The following contains the details of the first season of "This Is Us".

Welcome, Pearsons.

"This Is Us" returned for its third season on NBC Tuesday night in a real form, with tears, cuddles and more twists and mysteries than it really needs. Yes, the authors have added layers to the existing puzzle stories (Who will visit Randall and Tess in the future? What happened to Jack in Vietnam?) And have created new ones (Who is this? who kisses Rebecca?). All this, plus at least an emotional monologue designed to make you sniff.

The series is remarkably consistent in its good and bad parts. The first had big narrative arcs and reminded viewers why they loved this family so much. But some aspects of the show are beginning to be felt. The darkening of the past, present and future is a trademark of "This Is Us" but also more and more annoying as the series progresses. The mysteries are less exciting and more mysterious now, since we know the characters well enough to be invested without a whistle.

Still, there are moments of the first, titled "Nine Bucks," where "Us" subverts the expectations of its audience, especially when it comes to Deja, whose story does not include a single. has up to now never evolved. If only the rest of the Pearson clan could stay the same.

The first promising and fast one focused mainly on the Big Three in the present, while checking the first appointment of Jack and Rebecca in the past. And because the writers of this show never miss a chance to go beyond the heights, we also meet the legendary footballer Franco Harris, who receives a story of style "This Is Us" for his "immaculate reception" in the Steelers of 1972 against Raiders Football Match The event provides the literal backdrop for the date of Jack and Rebecca, and more thematically, the struggles of Kate, Randall and Kevin in the present.

The episode begins with a quick registration with the summer holidays of the siblings. Randall and Beth are not very lucky with Deja's attitude problems, Kevin is sleeping secretly with Beth's cousin, Zoey, and Kate and Toby have fertility issues.

As is the tradition, the episode takes place mainly on the birthday of brothers and sisters, Kevin celebrating with Randall on the East Coast and Kate celebrating with Toby and his friends in LA. Just before Kate's party, she and Toby visit an IVF specialist, who has made Kate a patient because of her weight, an approach that seems to be partly based on medicine but also on the bias and discrimination.

Kate is naturally devastated and, like Pearson, she burst into his evening. And although the doctor was cold at first appointments, she finally called Kate and Toby back and agreed to take them. Kate is delighted, but the low chances of success and the dangers of the process scare Toby, and he makes the rather reckless decision to empty all his antidepressants in order to boost his sperm count. I'm sure it will work really well. (No, this will not be the case, we saw it in the segment "next week on").

One of the very good Pearson is Kevin, who is crazy as Beth's cousin, Zoey, with whom he connected during the season 2 finale (and we saw him in Vietnam). . But when Beth learns their dalliance, she leaves, and instead of warning Zoey of her problems because of her problems, she warns Kevin of Zoey because of his.

Randall, meanwhile, has planned a great speech to officially ask Deja if she wants him and Beth to adopt him. He drives Deja to the building where he met William and talks about how adoption has defined his life, but he never had a choice. Now he wants Deja to have a choice.

This is the kind of speech that sounds good, especially when Sterling K. Brown does it. But Deja is angry because Randall has tried to assimilate their experiences, especially since she always cries a mother who has chosen to abandon her. When they get home, Deja sneaks out the window with a backpack, but by the time you think she's going to run away, she'll instead confront the father who never has her desired. She is there to discourage him and to have a favor: a pair of sneakers to give to Randall as a birthday present. When she returns home, she apologizes and says that she is ready to be adopted.

In the past, the episode comes back to the first meeting of Jack and Rebecca, and we see the entire night including a first date that takes a terrible turn because Jack only has $ 9 and he is afraid to admit it to Rebecca. Of course, once he opens the doors, things start to get better and he talks to him about his money problems and the hard times that he has experienced in Vietnam, where the brother whose we have barely heard about it is dead. The two gals share their first kiss and, as Jack returns the next morning with a bouquet, Rebecca opens the door to another man with his own flowers kissing her. Jack sees and goes away. These two crazy children will they never meet? (Yes, yes they will.)

And although it was an incredibly packed episode, it was not enough for "This Is Us". The last moments take us back to the distant future that we saw last year, where Randall and an adult Tess are going to see a woman who is clearly important to them, but who is somehow troubled. Fans have theorized that it might be Deja or Beth, but in the new scenes, we see Randall calling Toby and asking him to join them. When the camera goes to Toby, he is sitting alone in a bed. With all that concerns the risks of IVF, does that mean that something is happening to Kate?

I would say that's the obvious answer, but "This Is Us" is not obvious. OK, this is not obvious part of the time.

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