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NBC’s award-winning drama This Is Us is back for its fifth season on Tuesday, October 27 with two back-to-back episodes airing at 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.
If you don’t have cable, here’s how you can watch a live stream of This Is Us online for free:
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FuboTV
You can watch a live stream of NBC (live in most markets) and 100-plus other TV channels on FuboTV, which you can use for free with a seven-day trial right here:
Once signed up for FuboTV, you can watch This Is Us live on the FuboTV app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV, or Firestick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Xbox One, Samsung Smart TV, Android TV, iPhone, Android phone, iPad, or Android tablet. Or you can watch on your computer via the FuboTV website.
If you can’t watch live, FuboTV comes with 250 hours of cloud DVR space, as well as a 72-hour look-back feature, which allows you to watch most new shows on-demand within three days (and sometimes longer) of their conclusion, even if you don’t record them.
Hulu With Live TV
You can watch a live stream of NBC (live in most markets) and 65+ other TV channels via Hulu With Live TV, which you can try out for free with a seven-day trial:
Once signed up for Hulu With Live TV, you can watch This Is Us live on the Hulu app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV, or Firestick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Samsung Smart TV, LG Smart TV, Android TV, iPhone, Android phone, iPad, or Android tablet. Or you can watch on your computer via the Hulu website.
If you can’t watch live, Hulu with Live TV comes with both its extensive on-demand library (which includes new episodes of This Is Us by the next day) and 50 hours of Cloud DVR storage (with the ability to upgrade to “Enhanced Cloud DVR,” which gives you 200 hours of DVR space and the ability to fast forward through commercials).
Sling TV
You can watch a live stream of NBC (live in select markets) and 40-plus other TV channels via Sling TV’s “Sling Blue” bundle. It comes with a free 3-day trial, but if you bypass that, you can get it for $20 for the first month (normally $30), and get Showtime, Starz and Epix included for free:
Once signed up for Sling TV, you can watch This Is Us live on the Sling TV app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV or Firestick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Xbox One, Samsung Smart TV, LG Smart TV, Android TV, airTV Mini, Oculus, Portal, iPhone, Android phone, iPad or Android tablet. Or you can watch on your computer via the Sling TV website.
If you can’t watch live, Sling TV comes included with 10 hours of cloud DVR.
‘This Is Us’ Season 5 Preview
This Is Us chronicles the Pearson family across the decades: from Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Rebecca (Mandy Moore) as young parents in the 1980s to their kids (the big three), Kevin (Justin Hartley), Kate (Chrissy Metz) and Randall (Sterling K. Brown) searching for love and fulfillment in the present day along with Toby (Chris Sullivan) and Beth (Susan Kelechi Watson). This grounded, life-affirming dramedy reveals how the tiniest events in our lives impact who we become, and how the connections we share with each other can transcend time, distance, and even death.
When we last saw the Pearson family and their friends, Jack and Rebecca were celebrating the Big 3’s first birthday, but they were grieving over the loss of their third baby, Kyle. Meanwhile, in the present, the Pearsons were celebrating the first birthday of Kate and Toby’s baby, Jack. At the party, Rebecca announced that she was going to Missouri for a clinical trial to treat her Alzheimer’s.
When it came to light that Randall was the one who convinced Rebecca to do the trial, he and Kevin got into a knock-down, drag-out fight about it. But Kevin’s day was rocked when Madison (Caitlin Thompson) showed up and told him she was pregnant with his children.
Then in a flash-forward, viewers met Hailey (Adelaide Kane), who is now-adult baby Jack’s (Blake Stadnik) adopted sister. In this flash-forward, Jack and his wife Lucy (Auden Thornton) have just given birth to a baby girl named Hope.
When season five premieres, the Pearsons gather to celebrate the Big 3’s 40th birthday. Then the show will be off next Tuesday, November 3, for the election. On November 10, it returns with episode three, “Changes,” where “Kevin and Madison navigate their engagement as Kate and Toby take a big step in their adoption journey. Jack and Rebecca brace for puberty.”
In a Q&A with reporters ahead of the fifth season premiere, creator Dan Fogelman said that the fight between Kevin and Randall will take center stage for a while in the season.
“That’s a fight that has been building for 40 years between these two boys, and now men, who grew up in the same house,” said Fogelman, adding, “It’s in the front and center of our premiere, and it will be in the front and center of our show for quite a bit.”
Actor Justin Hartley then teased that with a fight like this, “sometimes it takes an event to bring people back together.”
This Is Us airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.