NBC has been trying to replicate "This is Us" for a couple of seasons, and has found bottling that formula difficult to master. It comes a little closer than most with "Council of Dads," an emotional concept that exhausts so much ground in the premiere it's difficult to foresee where it goes thereafter.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/entertainment/council-of-dads-review/index.html