This Is Us' third season finale felt like a deflated balloon

The A.V. Club

The "Her" Season 3 finale "wraps up the storylines that have come to dominate this final run of episodes, but it doesn’t really feel like a particularly effective capper to this season as a whole," says Caroline Siede, who adds: "Despite its status as a tearjerker, This Is Us is a fundamentally nice, fairly toothless show. So even when it teases an 'anything can happen!' storyline, it never really feels like the show is actually going to follow through on it, unless it does so in the gentlest way possible with tons of foreshadowing. And that’s fine. This Is Us doesn’t need to offer surprises to be a successful show. But if the endpoint is predictable, the journey to getting there at least needs to be interesting. And that’s where this episode (and good chunks of this season) dropped the ball."

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