This Is Us creator promises not to kill Randall this season

Entertainment Weekly

“I can assure everybody that we’re not killing Randall this season, so everybody can relax,” Dan Fogelman says with a laugh. “I think they would burn my house down. I’ve experienced with a lot of friends, when you’ve lost a parent, particularly for whatever reason a parent of the same sex —a guy losing his father or a girl losing her mother early — there can be a slight mortality clock that kicks in a bit earlier than it does on other people, especially since it was formative. And I think that’s something Randall and Kevin feel.”