‘This Is Us’ Creator Dan Fogelman Isn’t Interested in Future Spinoffs After Series Finale: We ‘Answered the Questions’

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The final chapter. As This Is Us came to an end with an emotional series finale, creator Dan Fogelman opened up about his lack of plans for the Pearson family — confirming that season 6 was the end of an era.“My well is pretty dry right now and I think we wanted to end the show when we thought we were at our creative strong point before it got too tiring, too hard for us to come up with ways to keep it special and interesting.

I feel this is the right endpoint,” Fogelman, 46, explained to Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday, May 24. “Who knows what change of heart or midlife crisis brings but I feel like we’ve put these stories to bed now.

Certainly for quite a bit of them.”The showrunner joked that there was only one story line he felt went unanswered on screen, adding, “I’m pretty set on this being it.

Outside of understandable questions about Audio the Dog, for the most part, we really answered the questions of the show.”In a separate interview with Deadline, Fogelman confirmed that Kate (Chrissy Metz) and Toby’s (Chris Sullivan) dog was safe and sound. “The dog is there.