This Is Us (2016)

This Is Us presents an initially endearing portrait of the Pearson family, celebrating filiation, sacrifice, and enduring bonds through temporal leaps that evoke wonder at ordinary providence. However, this narrative structure serves as a vehicle for a covert agenda that intensifies in later seasons: it normalizes homosexual relationships between adolescents—such as the lesbian kiss at a school party—presenting them as natural expressions of youthful love, instrumentalizing parental compassion to validate anthropological deconstructions. Randall's interracial adoption expands into racial explorations that question the universality of the traditional family, positioning systemic racism as a central axis that eclipses personal responsibility. Although the moral arc highlights redemption and loyalty, the surreptitious social engineering prioritizes the redefinition of sexuality and identity over natural law, reducing human fullness to subjective narratives. The violence is moderate (father's fatal fire, emotional tensions), but the sex is explicit (scenes of coitus, retrospective masturbation, partial nudity) and the language coarse in context (profanities in family dialogues). For parents, this series demands discernment: it celebrates virtues such as Jack's heroic fatherhood, but its ideological contraband—a drop of poison in the glass of sentimentalism—activates maximum alert, since it closes the dialogue on Christian anthropology by presenting alternatives as normative.