//‘This is Us’ veers into current events, while introducing a new twist
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‘This is Us’ veers into current events, while introducing a new twist

“This is Us” pivoted directly into current events, tackling the pandemic and, more pointedly, the fallout from the killing of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests. Yet the show also closed its two-hour premiere with another major twist in the Pearson family history, potentially adding a new long-lost relative to its ranks.