Perspective: How 'This Is Us' helped me process my dad’s death
Jack , left, and young Randall on “This Is Us.” Jack’s death is a pivotal moment in the lives of his family members. By Bethonie Butler Bethonie Butler Reporter covering television and pop culture Email Bio Follow Reporter March 27 at 8:00 AM Just over a year ago, I was one of the millions who watched the heavily promoted “Super Bowl Sunday” episode of NBC’s “This Is Us.” The episode revealed, at long last, how the Pearson family’s beloved patriarch, Jack , had died.
And there was a painful parallel in Jack’s unexpected cause of death, which turned out to be a “widowmaker” — one of the most dangerous types of heart attack. It was the same ghastly term an ashen-faced doctor used while telling me and my sister that our 54-year-old father had died. “My mom died 10 years ago, unexpectedly. It’s the hinge upon which my life swings,” “This Is Us” creator Dan Fogelman tweeted just after the pivotal episode aired. “Jack’s death is the Pearson hinge.”
And I couldn’t yet silence my biggest questions, the ones that made my heart drop whenever they came to mind, which was at least once a day: Did my dad know he was going to die? Was he scared? My father and I had talked just hours before he died. He was the person I would call if I needed anything — advice, help with a home improvement project, a good laugh.
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