When it comes to playing sad dads and husbands, Sterling K. Brown can't catch a break. After six seasons of playing Randall Pearson on NBC hit This Is Us, Brown has endured his fair share of tragedy — he met and lost his biological father,

The actor and creator tried something much less weepy this time: a sci-fi thriller. Still it was “a homecoming on so many levels,” Brown said.

The Sterling K. Brown-starring political thriller is not what it seems. "There are a lot things in the ether right now that are in this show," says Fogelman.