This Is Us season 2 spoilers: Will Kevin go to rehab?

Will Kevin go to rehab on This Is Us season 2? From the moment the fall finale concluded it felt as though this would be a question. This is the common route many celebrities take in order to earn some essence of redemption, but what does make Kevin Pearson somewhat different from most celebrities is that he almost regrets his preferential treatment in the first place. This is something that was echoed throughout the recent episode “Number One,” as he struggled with how much in his life is earned versus what is given. He was able to bounce from one dream to another without too much effort and his celebrity life is riddled with enablers and people who want to give him all the chances in the world.

Now, he’s running out of chances and apparently heading to treatment — whether or not he does jail time remains to be seen but executive producer Dan Fogelman teased the following about a lengthy rehab scene to Deadline:

“[The cast] just go at it in an interesting way that I had to call of them into my office because there’s some really serious acting going on … We find Kevin in rehab and the family has arrived to hash things out in a therapy session. It’s very loaded.”

This therapy session scene is likely going to contain a lot of important discussion about not only Kevin’s substance abuse, but also some other deep-seeded issues between the Big Three. It’s a little bit harder to blame Kevin for not knowing that his niece was in the back seat — who out there checks their car for children before taking off somewhere? — yet, that’s almost irrelevant since you can blame him for almost everything else. He allowed the problem to escalate and he’s the one who made the decision to get back out on the road when he had no business doing that. He should be punished, and he shouldn’t just feel like this is a slap on the wrist. Otherwise, there may not be a way for him to move forward and actually grow as a person from this experience.

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