Or, to compare it to “This Is Us,” it’s as if Jack’s Super Bowl snuffing were the driving force behind the entire show. ![]() It’s like a murder-mystery dinner but stretched beyond one evening. There’s an expectation that more sordid secrets will have to be exposed before viewers learn why Jon killed himself.īut herein lies the show’s most troubling problem: The way it spins out the mystery makes his death and their grief into morbid entertainment. This is the pattern throughout the first three episodes given to critics for review. “A Million Little Things” is meticulous in how it builds to each of these reveals, laying the groundwork with flashbacks and carefully chosen words. Eddie’s lover is Jon’s wife, Delilah (Stephanie Szostak).Maggie is still dealing with cancer and missed her last chemo treatment.Jon’s last deal was getting the deed on a former bakery for Rome’s wife Regina (Christina Moses) to finally open her own restaurant.Eddie has been having an affair and is in love with one of his student’s mothers.Jon called Eddie right before killing himself, but Eddie claims his ringer was off because he was in the middle of a music lesson.She took a file folder labeled “Rutledge” and deleted files off his computer with that name. Jon’s assistant Ashley (Christina Ochoa) knows something incriminating about Jon that she’s covering up.Just be happy.” Jon had also helped Eddie get sober. Jon knew that Eddie was unhappy in his marriage to Katherine (Grace Park) and even offered Eddie money to help him leave her because “Life’s too short.Read More: ‘The Good Doctor’ Premiere’s Surprise Ending Brings Back a Fan-Favorite Character for a Promising Season 2 Bigger Twists Gary’s new girlfriend Maggie (Allison Miller) is a psychiatrist whose specialty is… depression.But then Jon’s death interrupted Rome’s attempt mid-swallow. Rome was on the verge of suicide himself.And yes, he brought her as his date to Jon’s funeral. And yes, even though that inappropriateness is acknowledged on the show, it doesn’t make it any less gross. And yes, his new girlfriend is someone he hit on in his breast cancer survivor’s group. ![]() Below is a breakdown of the twists from the pilot episode alone: The difference is that while “This Is Us” usually does better with the emotional punch of its twists, “A Million Little Things” tends to spawn more questions and reveal more character flaws with each new development. They both also like to play with numerous flashbacks and narrative twists. “A Million Little Things” will bring to mind another marquee network drama: NBC’s “This Is Us.” Both present a large, diverse cast that provide some game performances, all the better to handle the emotionally laden scenes. Even in death, he doesn’t seem to be slowing down. He set phone alerts for special events, gave pep talks to troubled spouses, and was basically the glue that held together the group. The reason for getting stuck in the elevator was clearly so they could become friends, and therefore Jon bought them those Bruins season tickets. His mantra is, “Everything happens for a reason,” and his role in the group was often to find or mastermind that reason into happening. Well, they’re unexpected if you’re anybody but Jon. Grace Park and Stephanie Szostak, “A Million Little Things” ABC ABC’s new drama “A Million Little Things” is less explicit, but similarly gives its deceased a voice through, well, a million little things set in motion before his death. With Netflix’s adaptation of “13 Reasons Why,” a series of audio cassettes left by the deceased serve as a suicide note of sorts to meticulously reveal the depth of bullying, peer pressure, and violence that the girl experienced in high school. Therefore trying to create a TV show with an ongoing storyline about suicide is fraught with potential pitfalls because it is told by and from the point of the view of the living. ![]() ![]() Trying to come to some sort of understanding or peace is inherently going to be imperfect because the one person who could answer all of those questions is gone. Even if a note or some other documentation is provided, the questions of “Why?” and “How could we have missed/prevented this?” persist for those left behind.
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