10 Storylines You Can Expect to See During This Is Us Season 3

Executive producer Isaac Aptaker told The Hollywood Reporter that season three would jump forward a few months. "We try to stay relatively in real time with our present stories on our show because everything jumps around so much," he said. "We like to keep one constant, so chances are that season three for our present-day Big Three will pick up in the Fall of their 38th year."