“This Is Us” will mirror the real world and feature the current pandemic in the upcoming fifth season. Creator Dan Fogelman revealed the news on Sunday when a fan inquired about whether the new season would include coronavirus in its present-day storylines. “Yes on Covid [sic],” Fogelman wrote on Twitter. “We’ve decided to attack things head on.
Very proud of @ThisIsUsWriters.” While some TV shows, such as “Grey’s Anatomy”, have opted to incorporate COVID-19 into their forthcoming seasons, there had been questions over whether “This Is Us” would follow suit.
Considering that the show has been working toward a specific end goal and often jumps between decades in any given episode, the complexities over its creative direction in a