This Is Us is finally acknowledging Jack Pearson's flaws

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"If there was a scale for outsized, long-lasting reactions to dead parents and that scale went from Luke Skywalker to Batman, the entire Pearson family would rank somewhere juuuust below the Dark Knight," says Alexis Nedd. "And it is...exhausting. It is exhausting to watch this family refuse to budge from their sanctified image of Jack, and their obsession with his ideals is destroying them all. For better or worse, This Is Us finally seems to be acknowledging that the Pearsons’ preferred Jack-ish method of dealing with their trauma — which is to say, ignoring it until the opportunity arises to monologue extensively while drawing on barely related childhood anecdotes — is unhealthy and weird as hell. Several times in the mid-season finale, the opportunity for a true Jack Pearson moment arises and has the exact opposite results from what might be expected."