This Is Us creator: Tuesday’s episode was “one of the most exciting things we’ve done on the show yet”

Entertainment Weekly

Dan Fogelman says he was especially proud of the final moments of “The Car” episode, which served as a companion to “Super Bowl Sunday.”  Fogelman also explains how "the fundamental parts of the fire were always firmly entrenched," adding: "When I started to write this thing, in my mind’s eye, there was a fire at the house that the patriarch of the family heroically got the family out of the house, and then died in a really small way, without proper cinematic good-byes, hours later in a hospital by himself."