OCTOBER 27 - NOVEMBER 2, 2019 staradvertiser.com KEEP YOUR TISSUES HANDY Follow the ups and downs of the Pearson family in This Is Us. In fl ashbacks, viewers are treated to a look at the lives of parents Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Rebecca (Mandy Moore) as their kids grow up. Back in our time, Justin Hartley, Chrissy Metz and Sterling K. Brown star as triplets Kevin, Kate and Randall. Airing Tuesday, Oct. 29, on NBC. GO FROM NOVICE TO VIDEO PRO IN 6 WEEKS. Learn how to light, shoot, edit and add titles to create professional looking videos. Our Video Training Classes are available year-round, right in your neighborhood. To sign up, visit olelo.org/training olelo.org ON THE COVER | THIS IS US Family time New season of ‘This Is Us’ 2016, “This is Us” is a family drama rife with They are known as “The Big Three” and we continues on NBC tragedy, romance and even some laughs are introduced to them on their 36th birth- to counteract the tears you will inevitably days in 2016. Justin Hartley (“The Young shed as you spend time with the Pearson and the Restless”) plays Kevin, the eldest By Breanna Henry “triplets,” their parents and everyone else triplet, an oft-shirtless sitcom star teeter- TV Media who comes into their lives. Since Season 4 ing on the edge of a mental breakdown. of the series has just begun, I’ll do my best Second-born Kate, played by Chrissy Metz any of us need a good cry every now to avoid any spoilers, and instead attempt (“Breakthrough,” 2019), has issues with and then, which may be why “This to introduce “The Big Three” to anyone who weight that have defined her since child- is Us” has become one of the most M may not know them yet. hood. The final “triplet,” played by Emmy popular prime-time soap operas since “Dal- The series opens in 1980, with Jack (Milo winner Sterling K. Brown (“Black Panther,” las” defined the genre in 1978. Showrunner Ventimiglia, “Heroes”) and Rebecca Pearson 2018), is Randall, who, after being aban- Dan Fogelman (who also brought us “Gala- (Mandy Moore, “Tangled,” 2010) celebrat- doned on the steps of a fire station mo- vant” and “Pitch”) has created a beautiful, ing Jack’s 36th birthday. Rebecca’s yearly ments after his birth, was adopted by the touching family drama that is as timeless rendition of “Happy Birthday Mr. President” Pearson family. as it is modern. You can watch it Tuesday, is a little different this time — she’s heavily Their lives are messy and imperfect. Kevin Oct. 29, on NBC. pregnant with triplets, so a sexy dance isn’t In case you haven’t managed to catch one and Randall aren’t on speaking terms, and really in the cards. Though it opens with of the 58 episodes that have aired Kate resents their mother — but they are sweet comedy, I spent the last half of since the series premiered in family, and this is them. “This Is Us” also the first episode ugly-crying into my shows the changes in dynamic as spouses very confused dog’s fur. and significant others, like Randall’s wife Jack and Rebecca lose one of Beth (Susan Kelechi Watson, “Louie”) and their triplets during childbirth, Kate’s husband Toby (Chris Sullivan, “The but after an emotional talk about Knick”), become part of the family. The lemonade with the doctor (that show punches you right in the feelings and made me cry), a chance encounter will make you contemplate your own family with a fireman (that made me cry) relationships, no matter how dysfunctional and Jack consoling his wife as she they may be. You, the viewer, have loved and wakes up to the news (that re- lost and fought and feared, and over in the ally made me cry), the couple writer’s room, they know that Jack’s drink- end up filling all three cribs ing problem or Toby’s depression or Kate’s they have waiting at insecurities or Rebecca’s grief (or all of the home after all. above) will speak to you. Something in this Mandy Moore and Milo series will remind you of your own life, and Ventimiglia in a scene you will cry. But you will laugh, swoon, rage from “This Is Us” and cheer, too. 2 STAR CHANNELS OCTOber 27 - NOVEMBER 2, 2019 BEST BETS Sunday During the final challenge, they must make a Pennhurst Asylum in Pennsylvania in this pre- bleeding zombie cake for the judges. miere. They’re tasked with getting to the bot- The Weekly tom of recent reports of paranormal activity. FX 7 p.m. Tyuesda This new episode focuses on Donald Treadstone Thursday McGahn. Many may not even know his name, USA 10 p.m. American Pickers but it’s likely they’ll be living with his legacy Mr. Edwards (Omar Metwally) meets with an HIST 6 p.m. for years to come. Correspondents take a asset in this new episode. At the same time, Mike and Frank invite viewers along for a look at one of the most influential people in Bentley (Jeremy Irvine) searches for answers Halloween adventure in this new episode. Trump’s administration. and Doug (Brian J. Smith) gets a visitor. Also, They meet a collector with a penchant for Monday Soyun (Han Hyo-joo) is presented with a high voltage oddities on the spookiest night Halloween Baking Championship mission. of the year. FOOD 6 p.m. Wednesday Friday Three bakers continue their quest for the $25,000 grand prize in World’s Biggest Ghost Hunt: Van Helsing SYFY 7 p.m. this new epi- Pennhurst Asylum Flesh (Vincent Gale) and Axel (Jonathan sode. They’re A&E 5 p.m. Scarfe) race through an infested desert in challenged Cameras docu- a new episode of this science fiction series to create a ment what happens about the daughter of famed vampire hunter ghostly ver- when five paranor- Van Helsing. sion of a cro- mal investigators are quembouche tower. locked inside the legendary Saturday Sunday Guy’s Ranch Kitchen FOOD 9:30 a.m. KITV 6 p.m. Host Guy Fieri invites some of his talented It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown chef friends to improvise beautiful dishes in Charlie Brown is thrilled when he’s invited to a Halloween party in the classic ani- this new episode. The result can only be de- mated special “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” airing Sunday, Oct. 27, on ABC. scribed as sophisticated funk. Marc Murphy Linus awaits the arrival of the Great Pumpkin in the pumpkin patch while the rest of has a plan to grill oranges for a Boulevardier the Peanuts gang goes trick-or-treating. cocktail. 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The film 18-year-old son from the South Florida police. case, examining every angle and revealing all carries over the original Broadway cast of Kerry Officer Paul Larkin (Jordan) and Lt. John Stokes secrets. Season 1 saw the duo look into the Washington (“Scandal”), Steven Pasquale (Lee) do their best to find the boy and to keep murder of a 17-year-old boy who disappeared (“Rescue Me”), Jeremy Jordan (“Supergirl”) and the parents calm and informed. This film is in 1976, while Season 2 featured the murder Eugene Lee (“The Crumbles,” 2012) and brings much more than your typical crime-drama. It of a Conservative Party consultant who went explores the viewpoints of each individual and missing in 1990. This time around, Cassie takes a look at the complex and changing dy- and Sunny investigate a missing teenage girl namics between them all. whose body is found at a building site off the motorway.