It was perhaps the most heartbreaking TV moment to immediately follow a vending machine purchase.
But no amount of prep could emotionally shield us when watching Rebecca, who’d been assuming best case scenarios, learn that Jack had died of a heart attack.
Many This Is Us fans might consider Jack’s death to be the saddest moment of the series, and we certainly agree it was a gut punch, but we can’t in good conscience put it near the top.
Fans have known since the fifth episode that Jack Pearson was no longer living in the present, but while the wound was fresh for the family in the flashback, that early reveal certainly eased the fanbase’s suffering.