'This Is Us' Is BACK For Season 3, Here's How The Internet Reacted

Throughout this introductory episode, fans get to see flashbacks to Rebecca and Jack’s first date–which, according to both parties, wasn’t that great of a first impression. A fresh-out-of-the-military Jack struggles to pay for items at the carnival and finally confesses that fact to his date on the car ride home after some awkward tension and umbrella-less pouring rain.

This look at the couple’s first encounter goes from sweet, to sad, to painful, to irritating all in the same episode. We see Rebecca accept Jack and the bad date by planting a kiss before he dropped her off at home, and then she proceeds to crush all of our hearts by being out with another man when Jack pulls up on her with flowers. Heartbreaking.

Randall takes Deja to the old apartment complex where his late biological father used to live, trying to show her that he somewhat understands her struggle of not having the most involved parents. He also drops the bombshell that him and Beth want to start the process of officially adopting her, but wants Deja to be involved in the decision–which all seems really sweet, right?

Well, Deja isn’t having it (surprise, surprise) and blows up at Randall for trying to compare their struggles. She sneaks out of the window once they both get back home.

Thankfully for all the Randall fans out there, Deja comes to her senses and goes to visit her biological father for a speech on how much the Pearson family cares about her–and she gets hooked up with a pair of sneakers.

She comes back to surprise Randall for his birthday and we all get the warm and fuzzies as she tells him and Beth to start signing those adoption papers.

Season 2 of This Is Us ended with a huge cliffhanger as a flash-forward shows Randall and Tess going to visit “her.”

Of course, a lot of us were hoping to get some resolution as to who “her” is, but c’mon people…we’re not getting off that easy. This episode ends on the same note of the season 2 finale, with the same flash forward–but this time, they call Toby to join them.

This brings about so many more questions than last season by adding another party to the mix, because everyone is wondering who Randall, Tess, and Toby would be going to visit. on top of that…Toby doesn’t have on a wedding ring, which is made especially intriguing following his relationship drama with Kate from this episode.

Could it be Beth? Deja? Kate? What’s going on?!

Long story short, we now have way more questions than answers about everything that’s happening in the past, present, and future of This Is Us.

Flip through the next few pages to see some more reactions to the span of emotions we all experienced during the premiere to know you’re not alone.