S06.E13: The Day of the Wedding

[chitowngirl]

The Pearsons gather for Kate's wedding.

[BuckeyeLou]

Uh-Oh, now I am worried about Miguel

[Eureka]

I didn’t realize how much I needed Beth and Madison, No. 1 Lady Detectives, in my life. Lol.

[chitowngirl]

Rebecca doesn’t want to be seen as a mom and gets the ultimate soccer mom cut! 😆

[ams1001]

"He's playing Captain Hook...because he thinks I look like Peter Pan." 😄 

Little Kate's face after Jack told her that her He-Man comment wasn't funny. 😄

Now I understand the mustache! "You look like Magnum PI." Of course Kate likes it. (And I'm reminded that Phillip has a mustache in the future flash forward at the bar...hmm..)

13 minutes ago, BuckeyeLou said:

Uh-Oh, now I am worried about Miguel

Foreshadowing his absence at Rebecca's deathbed...😟

Kevin and Rebecca's walk in the vineyard. 😢

Edited April 20, 2022 by ams1001

[chitowngirl]

Are none of Randall’s girls there?

[Eureka]

3 minutes ago, chitowngirl said:

Are none of Randall’s girls there?

I literally just asked my son the same thing.

[BuckeyeLou]

Oh My: Randall's speech has me crying!  As a Senior Citizen, I understand what he means that Time is speeding up...

[SunnyBeBe]

I got a short haircut spur of the moment when I was 10 and handled it better than Rebecca did. Lol. 

[gonzosgirrl]

Are they low-key trolling us with the 'who does Kevin bang end up with' thing?

[BuckeyeLou]

18 minutes ago, chitowngirl said:

Rebecca doesn’t want to be seen as a mom and gets the ultimate soccer mom cut! 😆

I remember going to get the cute Princess Di cut :)

[SunnyBeBe]

Just now, gonzosgirrl said:

Are they low-key trolling us with the 'who does Kevin bang end up with' thing?

It makes me suspect he’s not getting any.  

[Katie111]

I missed the beginning.  Is Sophie’s husband not at the wedding?  Are they divorced? 
 

Why are there way less people at the wedding than at the hage engagement party?

 

Randall’s speech was so depressing.  What did it have to do with a wedding?  Still not seeing any chemistry between Kate and Mean jerk. 

[Clawdette]

"It's always the wedding singer!"  I love Beth!

[CleoCaesar]

Madison and Beth had a puzzling amount of chemistry in their Nancy Drew scenes together.

An unnecessary musical number, a long drawn-out Randall monologue, the origin story of Jack’s pornstache...this episode had a lot of filler.

The scene where Old!Rebecca mistook Kevin for Dead!!Jack was well done. Don’t say I never said anything nice about this show.

 

 

[LexieLily]

I had a lot of little things about this episode all typed up and ready to go but I just deleted them all. Everything to do with present-day Rebecca this episode destroyed me.

Kevin's position in the wedding picture, his walk with Rebecca in the vineyard, both of the Miguel/Randall conversations, the performance at the end. Dammit this is so hard to watch :(

[ams1001]

Was the Scottish guy Phillip's dad?

I liked that Miguel walked Kate down the aisle. Far cry from their attitude towards him in the first season. Their playful and slightly silly vows were sweet, too.

At the same time, the wedding almost felt like a funeral at some points. Was Randall's the most depressing wedding toast ever? 

12 minutes ago, chitowngirl said:

Are none of Randall’s girls there?

Randall jokingly said they were his security but I'm pretty sure we didn't see them.

7 minutes ago, gonzosgirrl said:

Are they low-key trolling us with the 'who does Kevin bang end up with' thing?

They were starting to get on my nerves.

1 minute ago, Katie111 said:

I missed the beginning.  Is Sophie’s husband not at the wedding?  Are they divorced?

One of the Bobbsey Twins said she was married during their speculations.

[SunnyBeBe]

Who played the wedding singer?  She’s cute, but not a singer. They should have fixed that.   

[BuckeyeLou]

Mandy Moore is just so amazing in these scenes as "Older Rebecca",  she is tearing my heart out.  And poor Miguel, he has all the weight of Rebecca's illness plus his own health problems....Rebecca able to play & sing made me cry, it was beautiful

[Spartan Girl]

Still don’t give a crap about Kate and Philip, but I will concede I liked Kate’s Princess Bride dress.

I would love a spin-off of Madison and Beth drinking at weddings and investigating hookups.

Poor Miguel. Everything with him and Rebecca broke my heart.

FYI I thought her short haircut was cute. It’s not like we’ve never seen Mandy with a pixie cut before. Those kids, seriously…

Edited April 20, 2022 by Spartan Girl

[chitowngirl]

While we really didn’t get the falling in love of Kate and Philip, I can see they are better for each other than Kate and Toby.

[BuckeyeLou]

1 minute ago, SunnyBeBe said:

Who played the wedding singer?  She’s cute, but not a singer. They should have fixed that.   

That was Katie Lowes(who I recognize from the show "Scandal"), she's cute and I dont think Wedding singers are supposed to be the best...

[LexieLily]

We still don't know Phillip Mean Jerk's last name. And we don't know anything about his family except that they like to drink. 

I don't understand why he was even a part of the initial discussion about Rebecca; that should have been Big Three only.

Edited April 20, 2022 by LexieLily

[Ohiopirate02]

4 minutes ago, Clawdette said:

"It's always the wedding singer!"  I love Beth!

Beth was fun this episode,  but that bra in Kevin's room cannot belong to the wedding singer.  Her, ah, assets require something more substantial than the one in Kevin's room.

[Empress1]

3 minutes ago, SunnyBeBe said:

Who played the wedding singer?  She’s cute, but not a singer. They should have fixed that.   

Katie Lowes, who I know as Quinn from Scandal. I doubt she's a one-off given that she's somewhat known.

God, they have five more years of this with Rebecca. So sad.

Edited April 20, 2022 by Empress1

[BuckeyeLou]

Who is paying for this fancy Vineyard wedding?  I assume Kevin?

[nilyank]

39 minutes ago, Eureka said:

I didn’t realize how much I needed Beth and Madison, No. 1 Lady Detectives, in my life. Lol.

They were my favorite part of the show. Funny, nosy, but not mean-spirited as they try to figure what is up with Kevin.

"Infection smile?" Randall, I demand you to point out to me the scenes in however many flashbacks as you want to point out said smile.

I like the actress that plays the wedding singer so I good with her. If we had to accept that Kate leaves Toby and then marries her former boss that she nicknamed Mean Jerk Philip and we saw none of the build-up over the season(s) to their romance, I would accept that Kevin finally finds the one by attending their wedding and falling for the wedding singer.

[tennisgurl]

Damn it show, how can I snark on you while your making me cry? Mandy’s song at the end just stabbed me right in the heart. Then Rebecca seeing Kevin as Jack, Miguel’s struggles and then him walking Kate down the aisle, it was so emotional I almost to forget to hypothesize about Annie convincing her sisters to join the traveling circus she’s been running for years while her parents were ignoring her. 

[Empress1]

1 minute ago, nilyank said:

They were my favorite part of the show. Funny, nosy, but not mean-spirited as they try to figure what is up with Kevin.

Bar none. "Kevin, you ain't slick!" I LOVE Beth.

(I posted this in the media thread but those of you on IG should check out Susan or Sterling's profiles - they both posted a great clip of the cast doing the Wobble at the wedding - and I don't think they're in character.)

[ams1001]

It just occurred to me that the actors who play Kate and both her husbands are all named Chris(sy).

[SunnyBeBe]

4 minutes ago, chitowngirl said:

While we really didn’t get the falling in love of Kate and Philip, I can see they are better for each other than Kate and Toby.

I think Philip is under her spell.  He was all over the fact that Kate would freak out if her mom couldn’t do that song. ……Really?  What daughter freaks out cause their mother, who suffers with dementia, isn’t able to perform?   That’s crazy!  Kate gets what Kate wants of course.  Lol

[DoubleUTeeEff]

I guess they didn't want to try and find flash forward 5 year actresses for Deja, Tess and Annie but their absence was glaring. It's been so long since I've seen Annie, I don't think I would have noticed a difference for her anyway.

I liked that they acknowledged Jack's porn stache because it is pretty epic.

Rebecca still looked beautiful with short hair but I get the self-consciousness when you make a big change to your look.

When the speeches started, I was super happy they were all abridged...until Randall. Of course we have to listen to him drone on.

A 12 hour wedding sounds like a nightmare to me. Seems like they just should have scheduled it when Rebecca was usually most lucid whether that be morning or afternoon. I'm not a doctor though.

I liked Philip joking about singing Celine Dion.

So obnoxious that they take Madison out of the running for Kevin but then throw back in both Sophie and the wedding singer! What the heck, does it have to be 3 friggin women for Kevin at all times? Ugh.

Seems like Miguel has caregiver fatigue. Get that man some help.

I liked when Beth was all "You're not slick, Kevin" (or whatever she said) and then shut down Madison when she repeated Beth.

Edited April 20, 2022 by DoubleUTeeEff
fixed Beth's quote

[Seelouis]

10 minutes ago, ams1001 said:

Was the Scottish guy Phillip's dad?

 

Apparently so. Phillip gets one person at the wedding. The rest were the Pearsons and everyone in their orbit. Did Phillip have a best man or any groomsmen? Just the Pearson brothers. I guess he’s perfect for Kate since he clearly has no life, no friends, nobody for Kate to be jealous of. 

[ams1001]

2 minutes ago, Empress1 said:

Bar none. "Kevin, you ain't slick!" I LOVE Beth.

(I posted this in the media thread but those of you on IG should check out Susan or Sterling's profiles - they both posted a great clip of the cast doing the Wobble at the wedding - and I don't think they're in character.)

While Kevin sits on the couch talking on the phone looking like he's oblivious to what's going on behind him (until he turns around and starts filming). 😄

Susan also has a cute video of her and Miguel dancing.

4 minutes ago, DoubleUTeeEff said:

I guess they didn't want to try and find flash forward 5 year actresses for Deja, Tess and Annie but their absence was glaring. It's been so long since I've seen Annie, I don't think I would have noticed a difference for her anyway.

With the right makeup the three actresses could probably play themselves five years older.

[Laurie4H]

Randall mention Miguel’s blood pressure meds like it was abnormal.  He is in his 70’s.  Most people that age are in blood pressure meds.  The tremors could be Parkinson’s but also could be from age. 

Edited April 20, 2022 by Laurie4H

[tomsmom]

They better not drag this wedding out like Barney and Robin’s! 
 

At this point do we reeeeally care who Kevin ends up with?

[ams1001]

1 minute ago, Laurie4H said:

Randall mention Miguel’s blood pressure meds like it was abnormal.  He is in his 70’s.  Most people that age are in blood pressure meds.  The tremors could be Parkinson’s but also could be from age. 

Or he could be tired from the twelve hour wedding day..!

If their concerned about Rebecca making it through the wedding okay you'd think they'd make it shorter, not drag it out.

[gonzosgirrl]

I'm surprised to find that Miguel is my favourite character at the moment. His face watching Rebecca sing was a study in heartbreak.

Edited April 20, 2022 by gonzosgirrl

[tennisgurl]

I’m really amused by the fact that, in an episode about Kate’s wedding, Kate was the least focused on Pearson. Even the show needs a Kate break after last week. 

[stonehaven]

Oh this was a lot better than last week. This felt like old school This Is Us.

I loved this...all the stuff that makes this show, the speeches, the sugary-ness, the Beth......everything was here in one episode.

(Also, "Pound of Ham Becca" would make a GREAT punk band name!!!)

Yes to a Beth and Madison spin off....Yes, to Jack being the ring bearer.....Yes to Mandy Moore bringing it. If you asked me six years ago, if I thought Mandy Moore could be a great actress or get me to root for her in any way, I would have said "Hell No" but this show made me adore her.

...but my favorite moment aside from Miguel's reaction to Becca's song, was Nicky leaning into Kevin asking him, "You got this, kid?" as he took "Jack's" spot on the walk with Mom. That got me as I'm sure part of him wished for a chance to talk to Jack once more and part of him knew that Kevin wanted to be like his dad so badly. It also lent credence to the maturity that Nicky has grown into since we first met him.

Five episodes left and I am so going to miss these people....well, most of them anyway...

[ams1001]

Just now, tennisgurl said:

I’m really amused by the fact that, in an episode about Kate’s wedding, Kate was the least focused on Pearson. Even the show needs a Kate break after last week. 

Yeah, I was not looking forward to another Kate-centric episode so I was pleasantly surprised.

[nexxie]

Loved everything about this episode - will truly miss this show.

[drafan]

4 minutes ago, DoubleUTeeEff said:

 

So obnoxious that they take Madison out of the running for Kevin but then throw back in both Sophie and the wedding singer! What the heck, does it have to be 3 friggin women for Kevin at all times? Ugh.

Ugh...a new "Big Three".

Rebecca singing that depressing song while everyone held their breath was just stupid. And I loathe when a performer can't play the instrument and they fake that they're playing it.

Kate/Philip is still the worst. Still not buying it. Hate that they had to make him English.

Original Jack was so shoe-horned in.

Guess we have to be thankful that Ken Olin didn't foist his real-life wife or himself into this cast. Oh wait...there are still a few more episodes...

On a positive note: Beth is just the best of the whole clan. But now they're treating her like comic relief.

 

[t7686]

Oof this episode was like a gut punch. I love Miguel, he’s so giving and understanding. Seeing him walk Kate down the aisle 🥲. Plus, while Randall was not reading the room at all, his interaction with Miguel seemed real and totally the way you would act with a parent. I hope this doesn't mean he’s sick too 😢. I also like Jack and the scene with swapping him out with Kevin was well done. When I saw the promo shots I wondered why Kevin didn't get to be with his kids, it makes sense now. Randall’s speech was depressing as hell but spot on and I finally get Kate and Philip now! Don't care who Kevin ends up with but if I must, I hope it’s the girl from Scandal and not Sophie like it’s freaking How I Met Your, Mother. Good episode all around. 

[gonzosgirrl]

Kevin asking Sophie if she got any sleep: I think was a fakeout regarding them hooking up. But, she seemed upset, so she is probably having marriage issues and confided in Kevin, which will lead to their reuniting.

[debraran]

6 hours ago, gonzosgirrl said:

Kevin asking Sophie if she got any sleep: I think was a fakeout regarding them hooking up. But, she seemed upset, so she is probably having marriage issues and confided in Kevin, which will lead to their reuniting.

Unless they were all red herrings I do recall Randall telling Malik that first love sometimes come back which made me think of Sophie even though he was talking about Deja. Also they had Rebecca bring up Sophie when she was going between Jack and Kevin in the vineyard and she has always known how much he loved her since he was seven. I think the wedding singer is a bit much. Justin always said Cassidy was going to be his good friend,  his rock but who knows? It’s very silly how with so few episodes left, they are dragging everything out like there is nothing else to discuss about the family. I hope they do a great job with Miguel in 2 wks. We never got to see their courtship and younger years, maybe wont now but I hope he is given the respect he deserves for their long marriage and love and friendship.

Edited April 20, 2022 by debraran

[SunnyBeBe]

A long day with lots of faces, noises, waiting, etc…..just what people with dementia dislike a lot.  It often causes anxiety and is not a good idea, but families do it all the time, because they just can’t accept the limitations.  If I was determined to have mom sing, I’d have made a video tape of it, made on a good day, and played that at the reception.  

[CdrJanny]

32 minutes ago, Spartan Girl said:

Still don’t give a crap about Kate and Philip, but I will concede I liked Kate’s Princess Bride dress.

I would love a spin-off of Madison and Beth drinking at weddings and investigating hookups.

Poor Miguel. Everything with him and Rebecca broke my heart.

FYI I thought her short haircut was cute. It’s not like we’ve never seen Mandy with a pixie cut before. Those kids, seriously…

Those kids are obnoxious spoiled brats.  Always have been, always will be.

[BoogieBurns]

53 minutes ago, chitowngirl said:

Are none of Randall’s girls there?

They would have had to age them up 5 years and I think that would have been almost impossible with Annie and Tess. Randall implied they were there

[pianogirl73]

I noticed that when Rebecca was singing they showed that every person that had anything to do with the Pearsons loked absolutely wrecked. Except Philip.