10 TV Episodes NOBODY Was Ready For

10. Memphis - This Is Us

Set across multiple years in and out of order, This Is Us was a family drama following the lives of three children and their parents.

Jack and Rebecca Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy Moore respectively) have a set of triplets, but one of them is sadly stillborn. Believing they were meant to have three children, they decide to adopt a young boy named Randall, born on the same day as their biological babies.

In season 1, Randall reconnects with his birth father William after learning that he has terminal cancer. This leads to an episode called Memphis, where the father shows his son around the city he grew up in.

It's a deeply moving trip down memory lane for William; a double whammy as he confronts his past as well as his present in the form of his son.

Nobody expected This Is Us to go this hard this quickly, delivering an absolutely gut punch right in its first season. Ron Cephas Jones is absolutely fantastic as William, as is Sterling K. Brown as Randall, expertly conveying an extremely complex yet deeply loving father-son relationship.

Have a box of tissues ready for this one.