Or, you know, dish out a healthy serving of confrontation and awkwardness.
(Also, there were furnace-roasted cheese dogs.)
Yes, Jack SuperDadded his way into legend again.
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In the present day, things were a little less charmed.
But it was Randall (Sterling K. Brown) who wound up at the epicenter of drama.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How could you do this to Randall on Thanksgiving?
Thats his favorite holiday!
DAN FOGELMAN:I know.
Nobody was moving, nobody was clinking their spoons, nobody was going back for seconds.
Everybody had been on set and knew the outcome, but youreallycould hear a pin drop.
It was a very cool experience.
The episode offers us two different Thanksgivings.
Yeah, I think so.
So that became really exciting.
Isaac and Elizabeth did an incredible job on it.
Lets start with the most guilty party: Rebecca.
How would you characterize his anger level at his mother?
He says at the end that he cant even look at her.
And as we get into next week, the anger level will really be ratcheted up.
I think anger comes with processing.
Right now is disbelief and emotion in all the visceral, weird, ugly ways.
But it takes this moment of this episode to get him to even process.
And how will he handle William?
The first scene of next weeks episode gives the answer to exactly that.
he basically breaks down his scale of anger, to answer your question very clearly.
Its fair to say that the carnal, original sin he views as being Rebeccas.
And William was following a kind of mandate.
And honestly thats how it should be.
Youd expect it to be flipped.
It was certainly less conventional… Is gastric bypass the right choice for her?
That scene with them and their break-up to me is one of the most powerful things weve done.
Chrissy is so beautiful in that scene.
Kevin has had his emotional wall up, but it was rivaled by Olivias.
What did you like about planning that moment?
And its just beautiful.
How much of a breakthrough moment will that be for Kevin and Olivia moving forward?
Its a breakthrough in fits and starts.
And thats more the path that were driving towards next week.
Yeah, its an important moment for Miguel.
And we will find out how much of Kevins hostility is justified or not justified?
Different kids have different reactions to stepparents to begin with.
Clearly, Kevin is probably the least-realized human being at this point of his life.
And you gave him gout, by the way.
And we gave him gout.
I dont remember what that conversation was like.
But it wasnt the content as much as the number.
It would have been a different episode.
All of the kids are traumatized and sucking their thumbs at the end of the episode.
