This Is Us special to air ahead of Season 3 premiere

This Is Us fans will get a double dose of the show when it returns to NBC this September. Ahead of the season three premiere of This Is Us, NBC will air an hour-long special about the show The special’s being called The Paley Center Salutes This Is Us. Fogelman told audiences that Jack’s Vietnam War deployment will be key to the storyline in season three of This Is Us. Fans will see how the Pearson’s coped in the year after Jack’s death This Is Us co-showrunner Isaac Aptaker told Glamour the ‘seminal year for the big three after the death of their father’ will be part of season three. ‘What that looks like does lead to the future as we know it for them — but how exactly that plays out and how it leads to that moment we saw in the Halloween flashback episode, where he reaches out to her after many years, is going to be a big season three story.’ Kevin will find love again Kevin will find a new lady love during season three of This Is Us.