Sterling K. Brown promises the issues of 2020 will be a key part of This Is Us Season 5

Los Angeles Times

"I can tell you the show is coming back with a bang," he tells the Los Angeles Times. "And I can tell you that the world will be reflected in our show. I won’t go into the details, but it is in the forefront of the show’s consciousness that the times in which we are living in are extraordinary and (creator Dan Fogelman) took it upon himself to say, 'I think that we can help people through this time by showing them how the Pearsons are dealing with it.'" ALSO: Ranking This Is Us' Top 25 characters.