15 times I yelled ‘NOPE’ while my favorite TV character died from a house fire on ‘This is Us’

Warning: Spoilers for the “Super Bowl Sunday” episode of This Is Us ahead.

Well, Jack Pearson didn’t burn to death in a house fire in Sunday’s episode of This Is Us, but he did die because of the house fire. And it was devastating.

From the first moments of the episode and through the very end, the “Super Bowl Sunday” episode of This Is Us elicited tears again and again with its relentless waves of sadness and more than once made me shout “NOPE” while I watched the Pearson family get torn apart by the death of Jack.

The episode opens with the Pearson house already engulfed in flames, caused by a faulty slow cooker that was left on and enabled by a smoke alarm that didn’t have any batteries in it. Jack wakes up and sees smoke coming in through the bedroom door and things are not looking good.  Read more…

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