THIS IS US: The First Season: What Now
Family drama connects love and loyalty amid emotional cliffhangers.
Should You Watch It?
“What Now?” is an emotionally intense season finale that both resolves important relationships and creates cliffhangers for what comes next. Its strongest qualities are its emphasis on family, marriage, loyalty, honesty, courage, and reconciliation.
The episode also includes lewd references, foul language, sexual situations, and alcohol-related concerns. Those elements make it unsuitable for children and young teens, even though the episode’s moral values and emotional storytelling give adults meaningful material to consider.
So, if you are an adult who can handle the content, this is WORTH WATCHING — ADULTS ONLY.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESAs the season closes, tensions within the family reach a turning point. Relationships are tested by career decisions, grief, marriage pressures, and long-held guilt.
At the same time, a memorial service, a renewed creative opportunity, and difficult personal realizations bring several family members face to face with what matters most. The episode aims to wrap up some emotional threads while opening new ones.
Is It Any Good?
Four stars means this episode is highly effective entertainment. “What Now?” takes viewers on an emotional rollercoaster, moving rapidly between tension, sadness, reconciliation, and happy conclusions.
The episode succeeds at wrapping up loose ends while creating compelling cliffhangers for the next season. Its family-centered storytelling and strong moral emphasis give the drama emotional weight.
The Worldview
The episode presents a strong moral worldview built around kindness, loyalty, honesty, and courage. It emphasizes the value of family, marriage, and children, and it treats reconciliation and devotion as meaningful responses to conflict and grief.
The story also portrays anger, lying, selfishness, sexual behavior, and alcohol use. These elements complicate the episode’s otherwise positive moral emphasis. Still, its central vision values people who remain connected through pain and who choose love and loyalty rather than indifference.
The episode’s longing for faithful family love aligns with Scripture’s call to love one another: “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (1 Corinthians 13:7).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Content Summary
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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Strong moral worldview with references to kindness, loyalty, honesty, and courage, and emphasis is placed on the value of family, marriage, and children; <b>
Foul Language
</b>Seven obscenities and four profanities; <b>
Violence
</b>No violence ; <b>
Sex
<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>A couple makes out and then later appears in bed together, a man mentions private parts, and kissing; <b>
Nudity
</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Upper male nudity, and a woman is briefly glimpsed in her bra.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <b>
Alcohol Use
</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A<b> </b>tipsy man is shown driving away after having several drinks at a bar, people shown drinking at a bar, people drink alcoholic beverages at a work party; <b>
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>No smoking, but marijuana is mentioned; and, <b>
Miscellaneous Immorality
<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Some anger, lying, selfishness.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>
Talk About It
Four questions for the couch, the commute, or the couple bingeing it together.
The episode emphasizes loyalty within family relationships. What does faithful love look like when people are hurt or disappointed?
1 Corinthians 13:4–7 · Colossians 3:12–14Several characters face choices about work, ambition, and how others value them. How can you pursue meaningful work without making it your identity?
Colossians 3:23–24 · Matthew 6:19–21Grief and remembrance shape the family’s choices. How can a family honor someone who has died while continuing to live faithfully?
Psalm 34:18 · 1 Thessalonians 4:13–14The episode includes anger, lying, and selfishness alongside reconciliation. What helps turn conflict toward honesty and restoration?
Ephesians 4:25–32 · James 1:19–20The Final Word
This is an emotionally powerful family drama with strong moral themes and excellent entertainment value. Its sexual content, foul language, and alcohol-related concerns require adult discernment. For mature viewers who can handle those elements, the answer is WORTH WATCHING — ADULTS ONLY.
