‘This Is Us’ Season 4 Finale: Dan Fogelman On Big Showdown, New Characters & Series’ Final Chapters

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By Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV SPOILER ALERT:  This story contains details about the Season 4 finale of This Is Us. When This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman was writing tonight’s Season 4 finale, no one from the show had any idea that it would air during a global pandemic that has claimed the lives of more than 17,000 people worldwide.

Yet, the show’s signature uplifting tone struck the right note in the finale, which provided some much needed optimism in dark times, from the welcome return of Dr.

K, who reassured us that “Life does have a way of shaking out to be more beautiful than tragic” to the very last line of dialogue in the episode, “Hope, her name is Hope” uttered by grown-up Jack as his wife was cradling their newborn