I sensed that it was one of these parenthood type shows with a lot of emotion. I watched a few of those episodes of parenthood where someone is sick and dying or a kid was getting bullied and had aspergers or something and it was really well done but it just let me with the overall downer kind of feeling. If I want something like that I'll just look around at the people around me. I want a little more of an escape when I watch tv so that's why I tend to watch sports and sitcoms and really good action drama or scifi/mystery kind of stuff. So when my wife convinced me to sit down and watch this is us I told her I will give it a good effort but if I saw something depressing I was out... 5 seconds in...mans butt...I had my out. I have afterward referred to it as "this is butts." instead of "this is us." I'm sure if I gave it a real effort I might actually like it...but like I said...I need something to hook me and that wasn't it for me. This has happened to me with other shows where I knew quickly...walking dead was another one...I tried...but when it turns me off straight out of the gate its hard to get past first impressions.