Enjoy it while you can! That’s the mantra the fans of This Is Us are going by following the news that season 6, set to air in 2022, will be the last for the NBC drama, which stars Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley and Sterling K. Brown.
Although the announcement, which came in May 2021, was a sad one for the viewers, longtime fans weren’t surprised, since creator Dan Fogelman has been open through the years about his vision for the award-winning show.
“We never set out to make a television series that was going to last 18 seasons, so we have a very direct plan. I have script pages I have written and I’m writing that really are deep, deep, deep into the future,” the showrunner told The Hollywood Reporter in 2019. “We have a plan for what we’re going to do, and I know what the plan is.”
Following the official announcement, the Crazy, Stupid, Love writer explained how sad he is to end the show via Twitter.
“Whoever casually first said ‘All good things must come to an end’ never had to end their favorite thing,” he tweeted at the time. “While sad to have just 1 season left, also grateful to NBC for letting us end the show how, and when, we always intended. We’ll work hard to stick the landing.”
Moore also reacted to the news via social media, reposting Fogelman’s tweet.
“Officially official. One season left of my favorite job. You can bet we will be soaking in every single moment,” she wrote via Instagram Story. “I’m already VERY emotional about my favorite job coming to an end. BUT … We have a whole season to wrap things up the way it was always intended.”
Scroll through the gallery below for everything the cast and creator have said about the final season and what to expect from the series finale:
The How I Met Your Mother alum doesn’t make a cameo on This Is Us, but her house does.
Hannigan revealed that the NBC series filmed inside her home, which is actually a pretty famous place. “I think my house’s resumé is longer than mine,” she joked on an October 2021 episode of SiriusXM’s The Michelle Collins Show, adding that the former owners used to rent out the space for film shoots. “I would say at least twice a month, [we] get requests [from film productions] because the house is just known,” she said.
It wasn’t until the Buffy alum realized that her neighbor was the director of This Is Us that she decided to offer up her abode. “We were like if we are ever going to do it, we would do it for that show ‘cause it’s so good and … long-running shows, like, the crews are very respectful,” she said.
In fact, the American Pie actress said, “Not only did they give us our house back in wonderful shape, they fixed things that I had damaged,” including touching up some paint and covering up her kids’ handprints on the wall. “They’re like, ‘Would you like us to do that as well?’” she continued. “And I’m like, ‘I know that wasn’t from you, but yeah, thank you.’”
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"I think it's wonderful. I think it's incredibly satisfying. I think it's beautiful," Ventimiglia told Us in September 2021 about the way the show ends. "Fogelman and the writers have [created] this completion of the story and to see this kind of an infinite loop of where things start and how it all kind of tailors back into one another. ... This is probably gonna wreck people in the most heartfelt way."
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"I think it's very unpredictable," Hartley told Entertainment Weekly in January 2021. "The way that the story has been told to me and the way that it ends seems like the right way to 'end' it. Just like life, everything does end, doesn't it? I think it's full. You're going to have a full heart, just because by that time you will have watched these people and all of their journeys for such a long time. When you invest that much as an audience member, you'll fill up completely, but in a satisfying way. It's definitely an emotional journey."
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“We’ve always known the plan for the show because we’re not going 15 seasons,” Fogelman told The Los Angeles Times in 2020. “I think by the time we’re in our sixth season, you’ll have a lot of the information about what’s happened to this family and what will be left is some resolution. I think when the show eventually comes to an end, I think in the best way, it’ll be very quiet and normal. That’s always been the plan, because at the end of the day, it’s a story about this kind of regular family."
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"We know where it ends and we know the path for each season. We’ve always had a plan, we didn’t want to get stuck," Fogelman said during a panel in 2018. "The show won’t overstay its welcome, we have a story to tell, we want to do this the right way. I’ve actually already shot pieces of the final scene of the series."
Brown added in 2019, "There are things that we’ve actually already shot for our series finale right, that we’re banking so that when it comes time to show them, it’ll be fun.”
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In 2018, Moore noted that the ending is "very true to what the show evokes from all of us," adding, "Dan’s a master at that. People will feel their feelings."
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In 2018, while Fogelman discussed the "her" mystery — which later was revealed to be a reference to an ailing Rebecca in bed — he hinted that those flash-forward scenes could be in the series finale.
"Who you think the ‘her’ is is probably not who the ‘her’ is but it’s who you’ll see at the end of the show," he said at the time. Later that year, Moore, added, "Parts of the ending have been shot!”
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