‘This Is Us’: Sterling K. Brown Slips ‘Bread Crumb’ Clues Reveal Kate’s Future
In the newest, This Is Us episode titled “Saturday in the Park,” Kate and Toby (Chrissy Metz and Chris Sullivan) face every parent’s nightmare, the disappearance of their child. However, the matter’s even more complicated as Jack is visually impaired. This titular episode explores the dissolution of the beloved couple’s marriage. Sterling K. Brown, who plays Kate’s brother Randall Pearson, let slip that “bread crumb clues” in the Apr. 5 episode will reveal Kate’s future.
Toby and Kate are growing apart
As This Is Us winds down toward its series finale, Toby and Kate are growing apart. However, they still love one another deeply. Therefore this circumstance places the television couple in the precarious position of trying to make their marriage work while living distinctly separate lives.
Toby finally feels validated at his San Francisco job. He shed his past personal issues to live as his authentic self for the first time in his life.
However, Kate feels the same way, fulfilled as a mother to their children, Jack and Hailey, and in her job, teaching visually impaired children at Jack’s school. As a result, Kate is finally standing on her own feet without depending on another person.
The distance between the couple pushes them further apart. Kate squashes Toby’s solution of Kate and the children moving to San Francisco. Kate wouldn’t make a move, not at this time in Jack’s development.
Subsequently, the show has teased one titular incident that will push the couple to the point of no return.
Moreover, this moment will reportedly occur during “Saturday in the Park,” an episode that celebrates Rebecca and Miguel’s (Mandy Moore and Jon Huertas) anniversary with a family barbecue.
Sterling K. Brown talks ‘bread crumbs that led to KaToby’s breakup
In an interview with People Magazine, Brown spoke of the clues he likened to “bread crumbs” that reveal the fundamental issues related to Kate and Toby’s breakup.
“Boy, there’s been a lot of stuff bubbling. From the season 5 finale, we know that there was a wedding that everybody was at — and it did not look like it was Kate and Toby’s,” Brown admitted regarding what fans could expect this evening on the NBC family drama.
However, Brown explained, “I think [creator] Dan [Fogelman] and our writers have been interested in showing the different forms of family and giving value to all those different forms of family.”
“Kate gets divorced. It’s not a surprise. Like many people are thinking, ‘She really gets divorced?’ There’s a wedding happening, and it ain’t Kate and Toby. There have been bread crumbs throughout the season,” he concludes.
The entire Pearson family will be affected by the couple’s split
Brown theorized how the Pearsons as a whole are affected by Toby and Kate’s split.
“It’s sort of like a dissection of how two good people, who are not antagonistic or mean or bad in and of themselves, can find themselves missing each other and how that reverberates through their relationship, but through the rest of the family as well. That’s what I can say about the party,” the actor explained.
Subsequently, Brown added that he and his wife, actor Ryan Michelle Bathe, had their own conversations about growing as a couple.
He shared that if a couple is not growing together, they are growing apart. Brown cited times that life pulls you in that particular direction. However, Brown said that couples have to make a real effort to get back on the same page at times.
This Is Us airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. EST on NBC.
