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Spoilers ahead for Episode 6 of This Is Us Season 5, called âBirth Mother.â
This Is Us has provided viewers with plot twists and surprise endings in nearly every episode of its five-season run so far. But one mystery that was introduced in the Season 5 premiere, centering around
Sterling K. Brownâs
Randall Pearson, had Brown concerned the show was jumping the shark before things played out in Episode 6, âBirth Mother.â
The Season 5 premiere âForty: Parts One and Two,â shows Randall s birth mother
Laurel (
William Hill (
Ron Cephas Jones) fled with his newborn son. In the episodeâs final moment, however, Laurel gasps back to life, unbeknownst to William. Bringing characters back to life after theyâve already been established as dead has become an increasingly popular trope for TV dramas, albeit a risky one, and Sterling K. Brown said this particular plot twist was concerning to him at first. Here s how he put it to TV