Nowhere to Run | "Number One" (S2E8)
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On today's episode of That Was Us, we'll be discussing season two, episode eight, number one. An alumni honor ceremony brings Kevin back to his high school where painful memories of that time in his life further his downward spiral. And Jack and Rebecca are hopeful about the future of their kids. Gang, how are we doing today?
I'm pretty great. Yeah. I'm happy to be discussing this episode in particular. I've been waiting.
So Manny and I have been having this conversation for a long time. I'm going to go back to when I first read the episode, because we got the three episodes coming up focused on each of the big three in the past and in the present, right? And I read Kev's episode, and I was like, this is really good. And then I saw Kev's episode. Yeah. And I was like, this is the shit. Justin Hartley stuck his foot so deep in this episode that like, it's probably in my top 10 of episodes of the show, maybe even top five.
It's top five for me.
It's top five for Mandy.
And Sterling, before you arrived yesterday, Chris, Sterling and I sent a little video to Justin because we just had to let him know. Gotta let him know. We had to give him his flowers. We had to just tell him how much we missed him, how much we appreciate him, how mind-blowingly good he was in this episode. It is just like, again, re-watching it, it took me back to seeing it for the first time. And I hadn't watched it since I saw it that first time six, seven years ago, however long that was. The fact that he doesn't get the recognition and the accolades for the work that he did on this show just blows my mind.
So that's our little precursor to what the episode is. The episode begins with the home movies back in the past of Jack and Rebecca watching the big three. They're all around a year or something, maybe a little less, a little older. And we're trying to see who's going to walk. Like, come on, Vic 3, who's going to go first? And number one starts walking and he's moving forward. He's like, oh, it's number one. He's going forth, right? And so we know Kevin was the first person to sort of take those steps.
And this episode is the first in a trilogy of episodes.
So it'll be Kevin, then Kate, then Randall. And we'll revisit this motif to sort of set up each one as we go through.
And the interesting thing is, in the... The present past, the more present past, I guess, when the big three are teenagers, when they're not little, little kids, which is sort of the two timelines that we're living in in these particular episodes, right? The teen years, right before Jack passes away, or we come to realize later on, before Jack passes away, and then the present day. We shot all of these episodes, sort of block shot them in a way, meaning that like, we had to figure out, we kind of shot these particular scenes that we see from these different perspectives in any given episode, whether it was Kevin's perspective or Randall's perspective or Kate's perspective. We kind of shot all of these scenes at the same time.
That makes sense.
Just kind of, you see, maybe like if Kate goes into the kitchen, we follow Kate into the kitchen in her episode. Whereas in Kevin's episode, we would have stayed with Kevin wherever he was in the scene.
Did it take longer to shoot? It did.
It was like we, I believe Ken directed all three of these episodes, right? Which, much to his chagrin, I just remember. This is when he cracked. This is when we broke Ken Orland.
Totally.
I think you're right. There is a real correlation between him going crazy on Twitter and doing these three episodes all at once. But yes, there was a lot of choreographing how these scenes were going to be blocked and how they looked because we kind of shot these different perspectives all at the same time.
It's a Rashomon sort of thing. Yeah, absolutely. So the first thing that we see is Kev in the hotel. Because he hasn't, you know, he didn't, obviously- He is clearly- On a binge. On a binge. Yeah, on a bender. It's Kev with a beard, which we've seen for the first time. We've never seen before, and I don't think we ever see it again.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic of this episode?
0:12–5:21
2
How does Kevin's high school experience affect him?
5:21–13:33
3
What challenges does Kevin face in adulthood?
13:33–18:15
4
How does Jack's advice shape Kevin's future?
18:15–19:53
5
What is the significance of the necklace Jack gives Kevin?
19:53–55:04