NBC has released the first look at This Is Us season two and it looks like we'll need as many tissues as we did for the first season.

The three-minute scene takes place between Rebecca (Mandy Moore) and her adopted son Randall (Sterling K Brown) as he struggles with the decision to adopt a child with his wife Beth (Susan Kelechi Watson).

He asks her how she came to adopt him after the death of one of her triplets, with Rebecca revealing that it was her husband Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) who "kept pushing" her into the decision.

As in the first season, the clip cuts across the two timelines as Rebecca eventually tells Randall: "He pushed a stranger on me, and that stranger became my child, and that child became my life."

Where's the tissues?!

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Earlier this month, it was revealed that the one and only Sylvester Stallone will be appearing in the second season of This Is Us in a guest role.

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He will become a mentor of sorts to Kevin (Justin Hartley) as he tries to get his big Hollywood break in a movie directed by Ron Howard. And no, it's not the Han Solo spin-off.

Season two will also give us some answers on Jack's death with the first episode having a "first giant piece of the puzzle that will set the internet abuzz".

This Is Us returns to NBC in the US on September 26. Channel 4 airs the show in the UK.


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