other half of his history.
Her story.
Tuesday s episode of
This Is Us bathed viewers in flashback emotion as orphaned-at-a-fire-station Randall (Sterling K. Brown) and his wife Beth (Susan Kelechi Watson) journeyed to New Orleans to learn what really happened to Laurel (Jennifer C. Homes), his biological mother who did
not die after giving birth to him, but rather lived a rich, painful, and extraordinary life.
In Birth Mother, Vietnamese refugee and Laurel s two-time love Hai (Vien Hong) unspooled a potent and bittersweet tale this was not
The Notebook, he cautioned of a woman told by her upper-crust father (Chi McBride) to marry a freshly promoted VP at his bank, when she was actually secretly in love with a fisherman. With a proposal looming, she fled town (alas, Hai could not leave his parents) and wound up on a bus to Pittsburgh, where, as you recall, she fell for William (Jermel Nakia), gave birth to Randall, and overdosed. She became a casualty of a racist syste