'This Is Us' to end with a 'meditative day,' creator reveals

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “This Is Us” received a wealth of honors, including a prestigious Humanitas Prize, a Writers Guild of America award and two consecutive Screen Actors Guild awards for best ensemble cast. It drew four best drama series Emmy nods, the sole broadcast nominee in recent years amid grander and gaudier competition such as Netflix's “The Crown,” HBO's “Game of Thrones” and Hulu's “The Handmaid's Tale.” The NBC show's stars and guest actors received multiple Emmy nominations, with Brown, Gerald McRaney and Ron Cephas Jones winning Emmys — two for Jones in the role of William Hill, birth father to Brown's Randall. As the show kept “throwing to the future,” as he put it, viewers continued to thirst for answers — about Kate and Toby's divorce, Kevin's forever love and other loose ends. Moore was asked whether the Pearson saga could one day be resumed, perhaps as a spin-off or a movie a la “Downton Abbey.” That's hard to imagine given Fogelman’s determination to end it as planned, she said.