Major spoilers below for This Is Us’ midseason finale, so be sure to watch the timeline-jumping episode before reading on.
Another big This Is Us question has been answered, with “The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning” finally cluing viewers in that the “Her” of recent speculation is actually family matriarch Rebecca Pearson herself.
Creator Dan Fogelman explained that this Rebecca storyline is definitely not one that’ll be wrapped up easily.
The creator told Deadline that this is all part of This Is Us’s grand design.