This Is Us
Heart and Soul
TV Flash files “Heart and Soul” as hour 93 of 106 in the TV Flash guide — This Is Us (2016–2022) on NBC, season 6, episode 5, aired 2022-02-01, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E05: listed hour 93 of 106 in the This Is Us guide, hour 5 of 18 in season 6. It aired 2022-02-01 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Don't Let Me Keep You” (S06E04). Next is “Our Little Island Girl: Part Two” (S06E06).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Kevin visits the construction site. Malik and Deja share controversial news at dinner.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Heart and Soul sit in the This Is Us guide?
S06E05 is listed hour 93 of 106 — hour 5 of 18 in season 6, season 6 episode 5.
When did This Is Us S06E05 air?
Heart and Soul aired 2022-02-01 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Will I cry in episode one, or is that a rumor?
You may well. The pilot is designed as a reveal and a hug. If that sounds like a trap, it is also the contract. Later hours get more complicated; the first one wants your face.
In the series
Why this series still plays
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The first look is a family that photographs like a campaign. Not a political one — a lifestyle one. Flannel, kitchen light, a Philadelphia house that understands cameras even when nobody in it is famous yet. This Is Us arrived on NBC in 2016 selling sincerity the way a fragrance launch sells memory: close-ups, timelines, a promise that if you stay, the portrait will complete. Mandy Moore's face is the long con of the costume department. You watch her age forward and backward until the latex becomes the point.…
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