On today's episode of That Was Us, we are diving into Season 5, Episode 3, Changes.

The Pearson family is pushed in new emotional directions.

Randall navigates big shifts with Tess, Kevin and Madison confront some hard truths,

and Kate and Toby take a meaningful step towards adoption.

Meanwhile, new characters reveal there's more to Laurel's story.

What up, y'all?

Hello, what up?

Chit, changes.

A lot of changes.

A lot of things that, like, a lot of things that, like, I didn't remember until I saw it.

Uh-huh. You know what I'm saying? Like, the opening of the episode, I was like, oh, wow. I love it when he does. Like, sometimes I just saw Dan the other day and grabbing a drink or whatnot, and he was giving me a paradise pitch. He loves a pitch. He loves to corner you. He's really good at it. I mean, he is the ultimate pitcher, but he does love to corner. Would he do this for you guys during the course of the show? Like you'd see him at an event or something. He'd be like, oh, wait. Here's the thing. Exactly. Yeah, yeah.

He'd come up to you and he's like, so check this out.

What do you think, how do you think Ronald feels about being gay? And I'll be like, huh? Yeah, you're like, wait. What's the context? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, trust me, it's going to work out. it's going to be great. I was like, okay. Yeah, yeah. But he does any, he's, you're right, he's excellent at it. But I could just imagine, like, what the writer's room was with these,

these particular ideas of like, wow, this is a big swing. Yeah. But here we go. He has a way

of like, what is it? Like, he, he, he throws people that we've never seen at all whatsoever. Right. But now the audience has been schooled. So now the audience is just waiting. Right? Like, because we've done it enough times. You're like, all right. Who is this Asian man and his granddaughter? Fishing. The episode opens. Yes.

On a grandfather and granddaughter fishing. They're going fishing. And immediately you're like, are we back in Vietnam? Like where? What? Like where? How is this related? Yeah. We don't know anything. And then he just drops it. And then he goes to the titles. And then he goes into the show. You're like, all right. And you forget about it. You forget it.

Until it comes back around again.

Until it comes You do.

You forget it. Until it comes back around again. Until it comes back around. Who are these people? Yeah. How are they related? How are they related to the Pearson? Yeah. Yeah. It's good. So changes. Everybody's going through a lot of stuff. Which one do we? Do you want to just finish this sort of fishing situation or no, you want to go to Jack and Rebecca a pediatrician with the teens? I want to do the fishing, but then I like the reveal last. Okay, okay, okay. So we could go to Jack and Rebecca at the pediatrician. Cool, cool, cool. With the teenagers. All three of them are going through puberty at the same time,

which is like walloping mom and dad.

Could you imagine? New doctor. You guys, I have a 14-year-old. I can't imagine having three. At the same time, going through all of those emotions. Mickey-Ficky time. Mickey. Mickey. Like they're all synced. Like, you know, like, we all have cycles.

Some may manifest in other ways, but, like, to have three kids going through.

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