Give Mandy Moore her flowers and the Emmy she deserves for her role on ThisIsUs
Mandy Moore has played Pearson matriarch Rebecca across at least seven decades, and she is, without doubt, the beating heart of the NBC drama. Other cast members have since joined Moore in the aging makeup process, but the actress is the only cast member that appears in each era.
The last time Moore was nominated for an Emmy was three years ago. If it doesn’t happen again this year, we will rage. Take this season’s final Thanksgiving installment, “Taboo,” which chronicles the newly engaged Rebecca and Jack hosting Rebecca’s WASPy parents in the 1970s, a gathering in 1999, and the present-day celebration overshadowed by the Alzheimer’s elephant in the room. It is an episode focusing on complex relationships between mothers and daughters, highlighting Moore’s range—and Moore must have that range in three different decades spanning 50 years.
A slight time jump after the dissolution of Kate’s first marriage in the previous episode accounts for Rebecca’s decline, including seeing Jack where Kevin is sitting. Rebecca’s lucidity comes and goes, so a planned performance of “This Is Us
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