“This is Us”: NBC's Heartstring-tugging New Drama Offers More Than Shock Value

NBC's humor-filled "This Is Us" wrapped up its premiere with a spectacular twist according to Cosmopolitan. Now a clear trend began to emerge in primetime TV: families.

This time the producer of this emotional premiered TV series intends to craft those emotional punches, playing with time jumps, making the audience experience "the good cry" without the Hollywood clichés.

The premiere drew 13.5 million viewers within three days and the show has been extended for a full 22-episode season.  Since the trailer of the drama created by Dan Fogelman was shown in May, the YouTube clip has raked up millions of views and scored 15 million in just 48 hours.

Creator Dan Fogelman told The Hollywood Reporter that the plot is about four main stories. These stories will be complementing each other as the show goes on, similar to how they did it in the pilot episode.

The story starts with Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Rebecca (Mandy Moore) who are seen decades earlier than the present-day characters who are their children. It relays various points in the kids' upbringing in the late 1980s, where these parents managed a trio of 8-year-olds. They also adopted another child after one of the triplets was stillborn. Interracial adoption is a sphere explored on TV. 

The series will continue to juggle time periods about the 36-year-old siblings Kate, played by Chrissy Metz, Kevin, played by Justin Hartley and Randall, played by Sterling K. Brown in the present, and younger versions of themselves and even their parents at points in the past according to USA Today.

Audience ended up watching three loosely connected stories about ordinary people and easily connect to the characters.