This Is Us will have a bit of a time jump when it picks up for its third season—and a major jump back in time. During a panel at the Television Critics Association Summer Tour, the showrunners of the NBC drama revealed where the show will pick up and where it will be headed throughout Season 3.
The second season of This Is Us predominantly focused on the heartbreaking mystery surrounding Jack's Pearson's (Milo Ventimiglia) premature death in 1998. For Season 3, co-showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger revealed the family's story will move past the tragedy of their patriarch's death with a focus on the clan's early beginnings and even a peek at the future.
"We pick up on our Big Three's [38th] birthday," Aptaker said of the show's present-day storyline, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
While cliffhangers on the Season 3 finale included a look at Kevin Pearson (Justin Hartley) headed to Vietnam with new girlfriend Zoe (Melanie Liburd) and Toby (Chris Sullivan) in a future depressed state, the This Is Us executive producer revealed the Season 3 storylines "are going to catch up to all of those moments over the course of this year."
