Ottakee Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 This Is Us is hugely popular among my friends. Thing is, most of my friends are foster/adoptive parents or have close family members that are. I was just wondering if it was popular among other groups as well. I cry at almost every episode as it touches on issues we have faced here and/or my close friends have faced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooCow Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Yes. Our entire family loves it. And I bawl. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evergreen State Sue Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 I enjoy that show and I don't have any experience with adoption, multiple births, musicians or actors in the family, people with money, homelessness or drug addiction. I do have a weight issue, but not to that extreme. It is so different from other shows out there. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liza Q Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 I am enjoying it very much and we are not an adoptive family....but I haven't cried yet. It's sweet but I am not yet that invested in the characters. Then again, I rarely cry over TV shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2scouts Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Yes, I think it's one of the better shows on TV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsheresomewhere Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Tissue Tuesday is how is it referred to in my house. Not an adoptive family but I feel the way the show is written, it touches on so many things. It is one of the better shows on tv. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoobie Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 I fast forward through anything with Kate and most of the scenes with Kevin, but I like the show overall. This past week's was particularly good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janie Grace Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 I fast forward through anything with Kate and most of the scenes with Kevin, but I like the show overall. This past week's was particularly good. LOL! Why? That's a lot of scenes to fast forward. Are you still able to follow the plot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Peregrine Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 We are an adoptive family but all the storylines are equally important to me. I have cried every week. This last week was the worst but I think I cried out the last of the virus I have been fighting. :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1GirlTwinBoys Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 My DD and I are HOOKED on this show. We don't have any experience with adoptions or foster care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1GirlTwinBoys Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 I fast forward through anything with Kate and most of the scenes with Kevin, but I like the show overall. This past week's was particularly good. How can you do this and keep up with the storyline?? LOL You're missing some good stuff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Upennmama Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Opposite- we're an adoptive family and it doesn't do much for me. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 I like it, and we aren't an adoptive family, nor do we have multiples. It's just a sweet show. However, the infant loss storyline hit me a little too hard, and I wasn't able to watch the show for a while. I expect that's understandable. I'm not really able to make much lemonade out of the sourest of lemons quite yet. (But if someone handed me a baby who needed a family, I'd happily accept!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 It's a good show. Dd and I like it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 I do. I wouldn't consider it a show *about* adoption. It's just a really good show about the ups, downs, and complexities of life. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kentuckymom Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 I don't really have anything in common with the characters or storyline, and I love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 I don't care for it. Just couldn't get into it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlktwins Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Dh and I watch every week. I started watching because of the multiple birth storyline. I didn't know what to expect. Dh didn't want to watch at first. I told him he had to watch at least the 1st epsiode and then he was hooked 😆. We both love it. I cry almost every week. I'm sad there are only 2 more episodes this go around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Dd loves it- she is an adoptive parent and also has biological children. I watch it but I really liked the first three episodes better than the current ones. I watch episodes when I'm sewing or folding laundry during the day and dd warned me the latest was a real tear jerker. I shed not one tear. I must be cold hearted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie in VA Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Not adoptive family and I like it. Dh watches it w/ me. I only cried this past week. BTDT (what Randall was there for. Trying not to mention spoilers). My friend is not from/in an adoptive family either and loves it. She's from Pittsburgh which adds a dimension for her, even though it's not a huge part of the show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny_Weatherwax Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 DD and I love it and we have no history of foster/adoption. I cry every episode. DD and I began the season with a couple of friends (neither from foster/adoptive families) for a This Is US night. With all of the tears and emotions we experienced, we cancelled after week 4. We all still watch it, just from the comfort of our own couches and tissue boxes. We get together later on in the week to discuss the current episode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Huh, I never connected the dots that I would like it or not like it based on being an adoptive family. I am adopted and my son is adopted. So, we are an adoptive family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottakee Posted February 25, 2017 Author Share Posted February 25, 2017 Thanks for sharing everyone. My son has reconnected with his birth father as an adult and met 2 more siblings he didn't know about (in addition to the 5 he knew). My girls this past year met 4 of their bio siblings for the first time ever. They are all now young adults. I loved the first few episodes and the last 2 but a few in the middle were too much bed hopping for my tastes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoobie Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 LOL! Why? That's a lot of scenes to fast forward. Are you still able to follow the plot? Well, I'm fat, and I was excited to see a main character who isn't typically sized. Yet all of her storylines revolve around weight. Every. Dang. Scene. So at least she's not the circus freak anymore, but it's obnoxious to me. Kevin's just freaking whiny. He redeemed himself at the end of the episode with his Broadway premiere. I wonder what will happen from that, so I may stop FFing through him. :rofl: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 I don't care for it. Just couldn't get into it. Same here. It has nothing to do with adoption, it just isn't my type of show. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Kate Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 I locked myself in my room today (not really, but I did declare today "tv day for me") and I just watched the last three episodes. I've teared-up several times during this season, but I honestly sobbed during the most recent episode. No adoption in my family, yet I'm hooked! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kesmom Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 I have not adopted and I like the show. I did have a hard time with the first episode, as someone who as lost a baby at birth. It makes for interesting fiction, but adoption right at the time of a loss is generally not recommended. I do know that it was a different time, as far as how pregnancy loss was treated and how adoptable minority babies were - but that doctor's speech was a little too poetic for me. (But obviously I got passed that as I've kept watching lol) The recent episode was powerful. I haven't cried that much at a show/movie since watching Stepmom. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maplecat Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 As a loss mom, I can't even watch the first episode. My father was telling me a little bit about the plot and I can not willing suspend disbelief long enough to wrap my head around having a child die and then immediately adopting another infant. Having gone through that kind of loss, I find it offensive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 As a loss mom, I can't even watch the first episode. My father was telling me a little bit about the plot and I can not willing suspend disbelief long enough to wrap my head around having a child die and then immediately adopting another infant. Having gone through that kind of loss, I find it offensive. I do think that required some suspension of disbelief. But maybe not. Maybe in my grief of losing my son, I'd have taken any baby that was offered to me. They were expecting to take three babies home, so maybe taking Randall was a perfectly logical step for them. No glaringly empty third bassinet. I thought they did a good job of showing how he was first treated like a replacement but couldn't be one, of course, and they learned to love him for him. I thought that was pretty realistic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottakee Posted February 28, 2017 Author Share Posted February 28, 2017 As a loss mom, I can't even watch the first episode. My father was telling me a little bit about the plot and I can not willing suspend disbelief long enough to wrap my head around having a child die and then immediately adopting another infant. Having gone through that kind of loss, I find it offensive. So sorry for your loss. I am not sure that part is very realistic, even for the time it happened. I do know families though that have adopted an infant very shortly after the loss of one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 I loved the first few episodes but the last few not as much. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 We love the show. Fabulous writing...interesting twists and turns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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