This Is Us season 3 spoilers: Randall’s campaign manager sticking around
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Via a report from Deadline, Tim Jo will be recurring throughout the remainder of this season as the character, who started off skeptical of Randall’s motives and abilities to deliver to the Philadelphia community. Yet, eventually Sterling K. Brown’s character won him over with the way in which he communicated — sure, Jae-Won recognized that Randall was pinpointing his election on Korean voters (and was using his famous brother Kevin to get more attention for himself), but in the end he didn’t seem to mind when he realized that he was coming from a good place. Plus, Randall doesn’t have a whole lot of hope otherwise, given that the African-American community in the neighborhood seems to be more committed to the man they know and the man they’ve grown up with.
Does keeping Jae-Won around signify anything in terms of Randall winning? Not exactly, but the writers are clearly going all-in with this local-politics story. Randall just brought Beth on board to help with the campaign, giving her an actual job and not just something because he feels bad over her unemployment. She’s got the know-how to make a splash and help get him to the finish line … if he even makes it there.
From the outside looking in, Randall still needs to figure how to roll a massive, metaphorical boulder up a hill with this election. He doesn’t live in the area, he’s driving constantly via a super-long commute to get there, and he doesn’t know the institutions. He’s an outsider and not everybody loves outsiders. No matter what he says or does, this is always going to stand in his way unless he and Beth decide to move the family down — but are they really going to want that? They’re basically then abandoning a part of their life that they’ve known in favor for one that they don’t, one that is built mostly off of Idealistic Randall’s own interest in connecting to his father’s identity. He wants to feel a part of that world, to live and breathe through those eyes alongside the eyes of Jack Pearson and the world that he knows. He wants to have it both ways, but such a feat — especially within the realm of politics — is often deemed impossible.
Nonetheless, this is a story worth tracking and one we absolutely will hone in on throughout the weeks and months to come.
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