A selective critical checklist of notable Tuesday TV:This Is Us (9/8c, NBC): Randall (Sterling K. Brown) put it out there last week: "Don't you ever wonder what it would have been like if Dad hadn't died?" Kevin (Justin Hartley) said it never crossed his mind, but it has occupied Randall's imagination for years — and the sometimes-surprising psychological results are unveiled in the fourth season's affecting penultimate episode. Better Things' Pamela Adlon is back as Randall's no-nonsense therapist, hearing both his best- and worst-case scenarios of a world in which the best TV dad ever (Milo Ventimiglia) survived the night of the house fire. And if Jack had lived, what would that have meant for Randall's relationships with his biological father, William (Ron Cephas Jones), and mother Rebecca (Mandy Moore)?

Source: Daily Sun March 17, 2020 11:48 UTC