DWilson

or there's this...
if she didn't get the messages until the phone was re-charged, she was very angry at that point (she was angry heading into the dinner and then with traffic, and the condescending nature of the dinner and Randall's behavior) she probably just knew the voice-mail was going to be the capper.
If the phone was working the whole time and her story was an excuse to avoid a confrontation, she could have decided (because she was angry with him) to let Randall sweat it out and make an appearance to stick it to him a little, and then came the voice message, but she was decent enough to go through with the dinner before lowering the boom on him later (and the dinner only made things worse).
..or maybe not...

TGM

if that were me, I'd pull my wife aside, and be honest with her, say I left a rather nasty VM when I thought you ditched me. I'm ashamed, please give me your phone and let me delete it. End of drama.

Noonan

Real good acting by both Beth and Randall this week. Their argument felt very real; not scripted. Only complaint is that we know Beth was a lawyer for over a decade at least. Was Randall smothering her during all those years while their children were young and they both had full time jobs? They explained it when they were young and met; they explained it in the present; what happened during all those years in-between which kept the issue festering with Beth? Did she not choose the path of her career on her own?

TGM

Beth is a bitch

mphtrilogy

Tough episode, seems like revisionist history, but they did a good job if they want to set the stage for a separation...

Noonan

The call out of his anxiety attacks was definitely a bitch move. Walking out was the correct response from Randall.

GatorDeb

On the incubator it says Jack Pearson Damon. No hyphen.

GatorDeb

She didn't do that. She accidentally donated the wrong box. She even tried to get it back from the college student and felt horrible about it.

mphtrilogy

I guess that was the season finale.. 2 year head fake on the beth/randall situation.. the last shot of rebecca... wow...
good finale...

DWilson

yetIt's been interesting to read some of the post-finale interviews with the producers and actors on a couple of the entertainment sites. The interviewers have all these questions about the flash-forward (where's Miguel, What's with Kate and Toby?, etc.) and every single time they get a "We can't tell you yet". It's funny to me because it's kind of obvious they want you to ask these questions (internally, at least) but the point is to maintain the mystery going into the next season's storylines. However, they did say they probably won't address why Miguel wasn't with Rebecca at her possible deathbed for yet another season.

mphtrilogy

Noonan

Wife pointed out that Toby wasn't wearing a ring so we assumed they're not together in the flash forward. Either that or Kate passes away at some point?

DWilson

TV Line did a detailed analysis of the flash-forward sequences through-out the season, -there are a lot of possibilities and I'm sure they'll throw some curveballs in there. Of course, when someone said they talked to Toby's now-adult son Jack and "They're on their way", a message board responder guessed "Perhaps Jack in non-binary".

Noonan

Could be. Just saying "they're" leaves it wide open to be almost anything. Hell, I'd assume not even the writers know exactly where it's going yet.

JeffTheAlpaca

I think season 2 was better.

The Vietnam story was the highlight of the season and less scenes with Jack Pearson in season 3 which sucked.

DJariya

https://deadline.com/2019/05/this-is...-6-1202603713/

Renewed through season 6

JeffTheAlpaca

I think they said there will 3 more seasons before they end it

mphtrilogy

That's good, they can do a nice roadmap and hopefully finish this in a good manner...