“We’re spending a lot of time in the family cabin this year, by design,” Fogelman said. We saw a glimpse of pandemic’s presence on the show in the first Season 5 trailer, which features Kevin wearing a mask. While This Is Us has always been about American life and not about politics, “it felt almost irresponsible not to take on the moment,” he said. To have not one but two hourlong episodes ready so quickly, the cast and crew had to shoot on weekends and the editors have been working night and day to finish the cuts, Fogelman said, adding that he only “locked” the episodes late Thursday (last night), and they are still being mixed and are missing visual effects.įogelman said that he has been working continuously on those two episodes since late February as scripts were changed to incorporate the coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests in the present-day storyline.

“It was really important to me - and to us - to get these episodes on before the election, not because they are political but because I think they are difficult and they are hopeful, and we felt it was important to us to put them on TV now with no agenda other than that,” he said. 'This Is Us' Season 5 Teaser Shows New Chapter Of Family Drama, Love And COVID-19

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