“I think we’ve checked the boxes,” Dan Fogelman tells EW.
“I think you’re going to feel a lot of resolution.”
Tonight, the Pearson family lays to rest their matriarch.

Milo Ventimiglia as Jack, Mandy Moore as Rebecca.Ron Batzdorff/NBC
And creatorDan Fogelmanlays to restThis Is Us.
(Sterling K. Brown’s Randall is certainly having trouble writing a eulogy for his mother.)
(Except that the show is ending.
You really do have to accept that part.)
“That was the simplicity of the message.”
You’re going to hear that word a lot when Fogelman and the cast talk about this final installment.
I think it’s going to be very rewarding and very fulfilling."
“It’s a real epilogue of a family,” he sums up.
I think we’ve checked the boxes.
I think you’re going to feel a lot of resolution.
Don’t miss “Us,” which airs Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.